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Nadia V. Celis

Affiliation: Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Hispanic Studies
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

Nadia Celis is a Professor jointly appointed in Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Her primary research interests focus on Caribbean literature and culture, with particular emphasis on gender and power.

Celis’ recent work focuses on the public dissemination of her research on love and violence through digital platforms. She is the director and host of the podcasts One Hundred Years of Solitude Together and Cien años de soledad en compañía, a bilingual journey through Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel featuring twenty-one international guests. The project has reached 15,000 listens across sixty countries and has been featured by media outlets such as WIRE Magazine, Vanity Fair, Maine Calling, and BBC Newshour.

In her current project, Love in the Time of AI, Celis extends her interrogation of language and literary imagination’s role in shaping feelings, behaviors, and power structures to the analysis of AI systems. She is designing a prototype platform that evaluates gender bias and ethical patterns through the generation and close reading of classic love stories alongside AI-produced narratives.

Celis is the author of Crónica de un amor terrible. La secreta historia de la novia devuelta en la muerte anunciada de García Márquez (Bogotá: Lumen/Penguin, 2023), widely covered by media outlets such as El Espectador, Repeating Islands, Noticias Caracol, HJCK, Infobae, El Heraldo, and El Tiempo. Her previous book, La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal” (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2015), received the Nicolás Guillén Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association, an Honorable Mention for the Premio Iberoamericano from LASA, and the Premio Montserrat Ordóñez from LASA’s Colombia Section. Celis is also co-editor of Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo (San Juan: Isla Negra, 2011). Her recent publications include “Anales de ‘la grifa letrada’: Genealogías matrilineales y provocación cimarrona en La otra Julia de Mayra Santos-Febres” (Afro-Hispanic Review 42.2, Fall 2025) and “La soledad de las macondianas: Paradojas del poder femenino en el Caribe de García Márquez,” in Marejada. Ensayos de Pensadoras del Caribe (2025). She is also working on a second book project on the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez: a feminist rereading of Cien años de soledad titled The Solitude of the Women of Macondo / La soledad de las macondianas, and on her first novel.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • 20th and 21st Century Latin American, Hispanic Caribbean and Latinx Literature

  • Latin American, Latina and Caribbean Women’s Writing

  • Caribbean Literature and Culture
  • Ethical Standards in AI
  • Literature and Culture of Colombia
  • Gender, Women and Feminist Studies
  • Gabriel García Márquez's work
  • Bodies, Sexuality and Subjectivity 
  • Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories
Book cover: La rebelión de las niñas
Cronica amor terrible cover
Cover of Leccion errante
Nadia Celis
Selected Media Appearances
Public Scholarship
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Education

  • PhD, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, 2007
  • Graduate Certificate, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Rutgers University, 2007
  • MA, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, 2004
  • BA, Programa de Lingüística y Literatura, Universidad de Cartagena, 2000
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