She attended the University of South Florida for her bachelor’s degree and decided after graduation that she didn’t know enough. In USF’s master’s program, Delano did a teaching fellowship during her first semester and then returned to Madrid to study abroad.
“Before, I worked in mall retail,” she admits, “but when I stepped into the classroom, that was the first time I thought, This job, this is fun. … Okay, maybe I would like to be a professor.”
Her path to the classroom took her to Emory University in Atlanta. She began research in Spanish-city mystery novels—finding gothic themes, literary tropes and anxieties about the future in tomes from the 19th century.
After earning her Ph.D. in Spanish, she took her first teaching job at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, before returning to her Southern roots at The University of Mississippi. As an advocate for personal…
