Nadia Celis

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages

Fall 2009

  • A Journey around Macondo: García Márquez and His Contemporaries (LAM 318)
  • Intermediate Spanish II (SPAN 204)
Phone (207) 721-5687
Title Assistant Professor
Department Romance Languages
Work Location 119 Sills Hall
E-Mail ncelis@bowdoin.edu
Nadia Cleis: Bowdoin College: Spanish

Education

M.A. and Ph. D. (Rutgers)
Linguistics and Literature (Universidad de Cartagena)

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Nadia Celis is from Colombia and received her B.A. in Linguistics and Literature from the Universidad de Cartagena. She earned her M.A. and Ph D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and joined Bowdoin in 2007, where she teaches courses in Latin American, Caribbean and US Latinos’ Literature and Culture. Her research explores the depiction of bodies and its impact on the development of female subjectivities in both literature and popular culture from the Hispanic Caribbean. Her publications include articles on novelists such as Marvel Moreno and Fanny Buitrago (Colombia), and Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico), and consider cultural phenomena such as discourses on beauty, sexual tourism, and the mass-media production of female bodies. Celis' ongoing book-length project studies the portrayal of girlhood and coming of age in Hispanic Caribbean Women’s Narratives.

Teaching and Research Interests

20th and 21st Century Latin American, Hispanic Caribbean and Latino Literature
Latin American, Latinas and Caribbean Women’s Writing
Caribbean Studies
Theories of Subjectivity
Feminist Theories and Criticism
Cultural Studies
Postcolonial Theories
Literature and Culture of Colombia

Selected Publications

2008 "Las verdades de Shakira: corporalidad y caribeñidad en un fenómeno global". Aguaita, 17/18 (Dec 2007- June 2008). 9-31.

“La traición de la belleza: cuerpos, poder y subjetividad femenina en Fanny Buitrago y Mayra Santos Febres” Chasqui. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Vol.37 No. 2 (November of 2008). 88-105.

2006 “Entre el amor y el odio: Ambivalencia materna, depresión e identidad femenina en dos cuentos de Marvel Moreno”. Revista Polifonía. Uniatlántico. Barranquilla, Colombia. No. 5/6. 199-211.

2005 “El imperio de las imágenes: la fotografía y el simulacro de la nación en Bello animal de Fanny Buitrago”. Cuadernos de Literatura del Caribe e Hispanoamérica. Barranquilla, Colombia. No. 2, Julio-Diciembre de 2005. 43-56

Poemas. Yzur: Revista de cultura, literatura y creación. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, No. 4, Spring 2005.

“Lector y escritor: codependencia y antagonismo en “El espejo de tinta” y “El espejo y la máscara” de Jorge Luis Borges”. La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la XI y XII Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, Año XIX Número 1, 2005.

2003 “La mujer del Caribe colombiano en Algo tan feo en la vida de una señora bien”. La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la X Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, Año VII, Número 1, 2003.

2002 “Los cuentos de Marvel Moreno” (Book review). C.M.H.L.B Caravelle. Université de Toulouse-le Mirail. No. 79, December 2002.

2001 “Ascenso y degradación en ‘El perrito’ de Marvel Moreno”. Rara Avis. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Bogotá, No. 4, Julio – Diciembre 2001.

“Ascenso y degradación en ‘El perrito’ de Marvel Moreno” [online]. La casa de Asterión. Departamento de Idiomas de Universidad del Atlántico. Vol 2, No. 5, 2001.