Nadia V. Celis
Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Program of Latin American Studies
Bowdoin College
7800 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011
ncelis@bowdoin.edu - (207) 721 5687
Education
2007 Ph. D. Spanish. Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Graduate Certificate. Gender and Women’s Studies.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
2004 M. A. Spanish. Rutgers University. New Brunswick.
2001 - 2002 Graduate Studies. Literature of the Colombian Caribbean.
Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia.
2000 B. A. Linguistics and Literature. Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia.
Publications
Books:
La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal.” Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2015.
Awarded the Nicolás Guillén’s Award to Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature, by the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2016-2017);
The Honorable mention of the Premio Iberoamericano Award by the Latin American Studies Association (2016); and
The “Premio Montserrat Ordóñez” Award, granted by the Colombia Section of the Latin American Studies Association (2016)
Reviewed in Letras femeninas, Caribbean Quarterly, Andamios and Repeating Islands.
Lección errante: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo. Co-edited with Juan Pablo Rivera. San Juan: Isla Negra, 2011.
Reviewed in Revista Iberoamericana, Letras Femeninas, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Ciberletras, among other peer-review journals.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
“Entre el “crimen atroz” y el “amor terrible”: Amor, poder y violencia en Crónica de una muerte anunciada de Gabriel García Márquez”. Forthcoming. REGS Revista de estudios de género y sexualidades (formerly Letras Femeninas).
2018 Victoria Urbano Award to best critical essay by Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades AEGS (Formerly AILCFH)
“Las niñas del Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’: Apuntes para una descolonización encarnada.” “Bodies in the Americas” (special number). Forum for Inter-American Research. 10.2 (November 2017): 85-107.
“Tras medio siglo de El hostigante verano de los dioses: Fanny Buitrago y la ‘autenticidad’ Caribe.” Revista Iberoamericana. Vol. LXXXII, 255-256 (Abril-Septiembre 2016): 471-486.
“La magia de contar historias: Fanny Buitrago, en conversación con Nadia Celis Salgado.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos. 44 (July-December 2014): 48-52.
“Entre el fetiche y el cuerpo “propio”: las niñas en las escritoras del Caribe hispano.” Cuadernos de literatura del Caribe e Hispanoamérica No. 18 (July-December 2013): 15-34.
“Bailando el Caribe: corporalidad, identidad y ciudadanía en las Plazas de Cartagena.” Caribbean Studies. 41.1 (January – June 2013): 27-61.
“Algo tan feo en la vida de dos señoras bien: Los relatos de formación de Marvel Moreno y Rosario Ferré”. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 34.3 (Spring of 2010): 559-580.
“Del amor, la pederastia y otros crímenes literarios: América Vicuña y las niñas de García Márquez”. Poligramas. Revista Literaria. 33 (June of 2010): 29-55.
“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.
“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. No. 2 (July to December of 2005). 43-56.
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books:
“La Negra’s ‘Provocation’: ‘Corporeal Consciousness’ and the Taking of Space in Nuestra Señora de la noche by Mayra Santos Febres. Forthcoming in Philosophizing the Americas: An Inter-American Discourse. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
“Violencia íntima y poder en En diciembre llegaban las brisas de Marvel Moreno”. El tejido de la brisa: La obra de Marvel Moreno. Eds. Mercedes Ortega Rubio y Orlando Araújo Fontalvo. Barranquilla, Colombia: Ediciones Universidad del Norte, 2017. 71-101.
“La soledad de Úrsula: Intimidad y violencia en Macondo, ayer y hoy”. Cien años de soledad cincuenta años después. Gabriel García Márquez. Literatura y memoria II. Programa Editorial de la Universidad del Valle, 2017. 337-356.
“La infancia como ‘pose’: Fanny Buitrago y la monstruosa ‘mujer-niña’”. Cuerpos abyectos: género, infancia y violencia. Eds. Margaret Shrimpton, David Loría Araújo, Celia Rosado Avilés. Mérida, México: Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2017. 139-153.
“In the Beginning There Was Violence: Marvel Moreno’s En diciembre llegaban las brisas or the Genealogy of Power.” Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women’s Writing: Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Global Politics. Estrella Cibeiro and Francisca López. Eds. New York: Routledge, 2012. 176-193.
“The Rhetoric of Hips: Shakira’s Embodiment and the Quest for Caribbean Identity”. Archipelagos of Sound. Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music. Ifeona Fulani Ed. Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2012. 191-216.
“Itinerario: Mayra Santos Febres, figura y obra.” Introduction. Lección errante: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo. San Juan: Isla Negra, 2011. 13-36
“Heterotopías del deseo: Sexo, dinero y poder en el Caribe de Mayra Santos-Febres.” Lección errante: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo. San Juan: Isla Negra, 2011. 136-152
Invited Articles in Academic Journals:
Julia Borst, Rebecca Fuchs and Martina Urioste-Buschmann, “Decolonising Knowledge: Feminism and Embodied Resistance in the Caribbean. A Conversation with Nadia Celis.” Entertext. Special Issue: Crossing Thresholds: Gender and Decoloniality in Caribbean Knowledge. Vol. 12 (Winter 2018). URL:
<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/creative-writing/research/entertext/issues>
“Macondo en Austin”. Aguaita. Revista del Observatorio del Caribe colombiano. 28-29. Junio-Diciembre 2016: 183-194.
“Las verdades de Shakira: corporalidad y caribeñidad en un fenómeno global”. Aguaita. Revista del Observatorio del Caribe colombiano, 17/18 (December 2007 to June 2008). 9-31. Also available at: <http://www.ocaribe.org/revista_aguaita/17_18/aguaita17_opinion01.pdf>
“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 (2006). 199-211.
“Ascenso y degradación en ‘El perrito’ de Marvel Moreno”. Rara Avis. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Bogotá, No. 4 (July to December 2001).
“Ascenso y degradación en ‘El perrito’ de Marvel Moreno”. La casa de Asterión. Departamento de Idiomas de Universidad del Atlántico. Vol 2, No. 5, 2001. s.p.
URL: <http://casadeasterion.homestead.com/v2n5.html.>
Other Articles in Journals, Books and Proceedings:
“Hay bicentenario: Entre la Cartagena real y la imaginada.” Prologue to Hay Bicentenario. Independencia de Cartagena de Indias, 1811-2011. Cartagena: Instituto de Patrimonio y Cultura, 2011. 10-16.
“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. (Selected Proceedings)
“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. (Selected Proceedings)
Other Edited Volumes and Proceedings:
Hay Bicentenario. Independencia de Cartagena de Indias, 1811 -2011. Cartagena: Instituto de Patrimonio y Cultura, 2011.
IV Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Memorias. Co-editor with Jorge García Usta. Barranquilla: Fondo de publicaciones de la Universidad del Atlántico, 1999.
La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la XI y XII Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Co-editor with Julieta Vitullo. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, Año XIX Número 1, 2005.
Book Reviews:
"Caribbean-Latin@s: A Crisscrossing and Dislocating Narrative." Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. 11.1. Article 10, 2014. <http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol11/iss1/10>
“Cuerpo y cultura: una celebración erudita del baile”. Aguaita 19/20. December 2008- June 2009. 155-158.
“El país de los árboles locos: Del viajero absurdo y la incertidumbre de su deseo”. Espéculo. Revista de estudios literarios. 42 (July to October, 2009).
URL: <http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero42/arlocos.html>
“Los cuentos de Marvel Moreno”. C.M.H.L.B Caravelle. Université de Toulouse-le Mirail. No. 79. December, 2002.
Articles in Newspapers, blogs and other public media:
“On tyrants, writers and #metoo: teaching power and Junot Díaz’s case”. The Bowdoin Orient, May 14, 2018. https://bowdoinorient.com/2018/05/14/on-tyrants-writers-and-metoo-teaching-power-and-junot-diazs-case/
Blog entries in “La intimidad del poder: sexualidad, amor y control en y más allá de Macondo”. Centro Gabo.org. Fundación García Márquez para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, 2018.
“La mujer del epílogo”. Latitud. El Heraldo. September 2nd, 2017. http://revistas.elheraldo.co/latitud/la-mujer-del-epilogo-144987
“La soledad de las Buendía: Intimidad y violencia en el Caribe macondiano”. Latitud. El Heraldo. May 28, 2017.
https://www.elheraldo.co/entretenimiento/la-soledad-de-las-buendia-intimidad-y-violencia-en-el-caribe-macondiano-366655
Editorial contributions for El Universal. Cartagena, Colombia. 2008 to 2011.
Interviews:
“Mayra Santos-Febres: El lenguaje de los cuerpos”. Lección errante: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo. San Juan: Isla Negra, 2011. 247-266
“Mayra Santos-Febres: El lenguaje de los cuerpos”. A Body of One’s Own: Conversations with Caribbean and Latina Writers. Brunswick: Bowdoin College, 2008. Movie. <http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/hispanic-studies-faculty-publications/3>
“Magali García Ramis: La historia que uno se inventa”. A Body of One’s Own: Conversations with Caribbean and Latina Writers. Brunswick: Bowdoin College, 2007. DVD.
<http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/hispanic-studies-faculty-publications/1>
“Fanny Buitrago: La magia de contar historias”. A Body of One’s Own: Conversations with Caribbean and Latina Writers. Brunswick: Bowdoin College, 2007. DVD.
<http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/hispanic-studies-faculty-publications/2>
Works in Progress
“Crónica de una novia devuelta” – Playwright (in collaboration with Abigail Kileen)
Intimacy in Macondo: Love and Power in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Book-project
“‘Misterios’ in Motion: Rita Indiana’s Aesthetics of Translation.” Article
Guest Lectures and Seminars
“Chronicle of a ‘Terrible Love’: Intimacy and Power in a García Márquez’s classic”. Faculty Lunch Series. Bowdoin College. February 14, 2018.
“El cuerpo palimpsesto: Encarnación y transmutación en la estética afrodiaspórica de Rita Indiana”. IV Congreso Internacional de Literatura, “El Caribe negro”. Barranquilla, Colombia. Universidad del Norte, October 17th to 20, 2017 (Invited speaker)
“Del ‘realismo mágico’ al ‘realismo íntimo’: Reflexiones para una Colombia más allá de Macondo”. XIII Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Cartagena de Indias, July 25th, 2017. (Invited speaker)
“Author Meets Critics: La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’”. Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, New York, June 24th, 2017. (Invited speaker)
“Cuerpos y poder: Acotaciones desde una filosofía caribeña”. Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, April 5, 2017 (Invited speaker)
“Rebeliones encarnadas: El Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’” (Seminar). Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Cartagena, May-June 2016. (Invited lecturer)
“Rebeliones encarnadas: El Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’”. Fundación Cultural Casa Colombo Alemana. Cartagena, June 2016. (Invited speaker)
“Epistemologías encarnadas: Cuerpo y poder en las escritoras del Caribe”. Universidad de la Salle. Bogotá, May 2016. (Invited speaker)
Book Presentation. La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal”. Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, May 2016. (Invited speaker)
“Del cuerpo apropiado al cuerpo propio: corporalidad, subjetividad y poder”. Semillero de Investigación en Geofísica, Universidad del Rosario. Bogotá, May 2016. (Invited speaker)
“La intimidad en Macondo: Mujer, amor y poder en el Caribe de Gabo”. Agenda cultural del Museo Histórico de Cartagena de Indias. Cartagena de Indias, April 1st, 2016. (Invited speaker)
“La rebelión de las niñas: Cuerpos, poder y subjetividad en el Caribe”. Seminario El Caribe, visiones históricas de la región. Instituto Mora, México City, June 11, 2015. (Invited speaker)
“La mujer en Macondo”. Feria del Libro de Bogotá. Abril 30, 2015. (Invited speaker)
“Questions de genre et de pouvoir dans l’œuvre de Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” Groupe de Réflexion et Etudes sur la Colombie GRECOL PA-FMSH. Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH). Paris, France. November 19, 2014. (Invited speaker)
“Amor y poder en Gabriel García Márquez”. National Association of Spanish Teachers Annual Meeting, Maine Chapter. Lewiston, ME, October 23, 2014. (Invited speaker)
“Cuestión de Género”. Cátedra Gabriel García Márquez. Parque Cultural del Caribe. Barranquilla, Colombia, July 22nd to 25th, 2014. (Invited speaker)
“Caribbean Bodies in the Global Market: Is Shakira Lost in Translation?” Massachussets College of Arts and Design. December 5, 2013. (Invited speaker)
“The Rebellion of the Girls: Reflections for an Embodied Decolonization”. Keynote address at SoCaRe’s International Research Conference: Crossing Thresholds: Decoloniality and Gender in Caribbean Knowledge. University of Hanover, Hanover (Germany). January 21st to 23rd, 2013. (Invited speaker)
“Heterotopies of Desire: Bodies and Power in Mayra Santos-Febres”. Faculty Seminar Series. Bowdoin College, November 6th, 2012. (Invited speaker)
“Rutas y resonancias. Artistas y festivales en el Gran Caribe”. Panel Chair. VI Mercado Cultural del Caribe. Cartagena de Indias, December 6th to 9th. 2012. (Invited speaker)
“Sexuality and Power in Mayra Santos Febres’ Work”. Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Hunter College, CUNY. New York, April 2nd, 2012. (Invited speaker)
“Writing Girls and Girlhood in the Hispanic Caribbean”. Women’s and Gender Research Group. Facultad de Flosofía. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia. May 16th, 2011.
“La retórica de las caderas: Shakira o de la caribeñidad transnacional.” Fundación Pies descalzos, Barranquilla, March 20th, 2010. (Invited speaker)
“Cuerpo y cultura: una celebración erudita del baile”. IX International Seminar of Caribbean Studies. Cartagena, Colombia. August 5th, 2009. (Invited speaker)
Un cuerpo propio: cuerpo y poder en escritoras del Caribe hispano. (Seminar). International Institute of Caribbean Studies and Universidad de Cartagena. Cartagena, Colombia. July 29th and 30th, 2009. (Invited lecturer)
“Caribbean Bodies in the Global Market: Shakira’s Hips Lost in Translation”. Mount Holyoke College. Massachusetts, April 2nd, 2009. (Invited speaker)
“The Rhetoric of Hips: Shakira’s Embodiment and the Quest for Caribbean Identity”. Faculty Seminar Series. Bowdoin College, October 22nd, 2008. (Invited speaker)
“El país de los árboles locos: Del viajero absurdo y la incertidumbre de su deseo”. El escritor, el crítico y usted. Lectures on Latino and Latin American writers in New York. Queens Public Library of New York, March 7th, 2008. (Invited speaker)
“Promises and Challenges of Multicultural Selves”. Festival for the Multicultural Exchange. Bowdoin College, February of 2008.
Escritoras caribeñas: cuerpos, poder y nación. (Seminar). Universidad del Atlántico and COMFAMILIAR. Barranquilla, Colombia. June 14 th and 15th, 2006. (Invited lecturer)
“Mujeres escritoras en el Caribe colombiano: De los sesentas a los ochentas”. Gender Studies Graduate Program. Universidad del Atlántico. Barranquilla, August 14, 2002. (Invited speaker)
Conference Papers
“Crónica de una novia devuelta: Amor y poder en la “crónica” de García Márquez.” 32th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Nassau, Bahamas. June 5th to 10th, 2017.
“Women of Color, Gender and Technologies for Liberation: A Roundtable”. 12th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Riviera Maya, June 18 to 21st, 2015.
“Develando la soledad: Amor y poder en el Caribe de García Márquez”. 40th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. New Orleans. May 26th to 30th, 2015.
“‘Misterios’ in Motion: Rita Indiana’s Aesthetics of Translation.” 39th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Mérida, México. May 26th to 30th, 2014.
“‘Misterios’ in Motion: Rita Indiana’s Aesthetics of Translation.” Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, May 21st to 24th, 2014.
“La ‘provocación” de ‘La Negra’: Mirar, tocar, tomarse el espacio en Nuestra señora de la noche de Mayra Santos-Febres”. Negritud. Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos. Cartagena, Colombia. March 11th to 14th, 2014.
“El antídoto caribeño: Del goce, la “pose” y la “conciencia corporal” en Señora de la miel de Fanny Buitrago”. 10th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20th to 24th, 2013.
“A 50 años de El hostigante verano de los dioses: Fanny Buitrago y la ‘autenticidad’ Caribe”. XVIII Congreso de la Asociación de Colombianistas. Regis College, Massachussetts, July 10th to 13th, 2013.
“La memoria de los cuerpos: Arte y espacio público en el Bicentenario de la Independencia de Cartagena de Indias.” Coloquio académico del Festival del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, June 3rd to 9th, 2013.
“A 50 años de El hostigante verano de los dioses: Fanny Buitrago y la ‘autenticidad’ Caribe”. 38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Grenada, June 4rd to 8th, 2013.
“Caribbean Bodies in the Global Market: Lost in Translation?”. 38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Grenada, June 4rd to 8th, 2013.
“La ‘mujer-niña’ en la literatura del Caribe hispano.” 37th Annual Conference of the Caribbean
Studies Association. Le Grossier, Guadalupe. May 28th to June 1st, 2012.
“Cartagena de Indias: arte, cultura y ciudadanía en una ciudad ‘en disputa’.” CPA 2011 Annual Meeting
"Shifting the Geography of Reason VIII: The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society." New Brunswick, NJ. September 29th to October 1st, 2011.
“Ciudadanías en movimiento: cuerpos y poder en Cartagena de Indias.” 36th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Willemstad, Curazao. May 30th to June 3rd, 2011.
"Performaing Caribbeannes: Embodinment and Citizenship in Cartagena's Public Squares." SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Programme for research on the History of Development) Workshop: People of African Descent in Latin America in Comparative Perspective. Cartagena, March 24th to 26th, 2011.
“La rebelión de las niñas: ‘Decentes,’ ‘Lolitas’ y otras ficciones sobre la feminidad en el Caribe hispano.” IV Conferencia Internacional “El Caribe del Siglo XXI.” Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe de Universidad de La Habana. La Habana, December 6th to 8th, 2010.
“Bailando el Caribe: Corporalidad, identidad y ciudadanía en las Plazas de Cartagena.” 7th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. “Shifting the Geography of Reason: Music, Rhythm and Movement”. Cartagena de Indias, August 11th to 14th, 2010.
“In the Beginning There Was Violence: Marvel Moreno’s En Diciembre or the Genesis of Power.” 35th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. St. Peters, Barbados. May 22 to 27th, 2010.
“La retórica de las caderas: Shakira o de la caribeñidad transnacional.” II International Conference of Caribbean Studies - ICCS. Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, March 15th to 18th, 2010.
“A Body of One’s Own: Mayra Santos-Febres’ Girls”. Comparatistas Act 22: Going Caribbean. Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. November 2nd to 4th, 2009.
“Del amor, la pederastia y otros crímenes literarios: las niñas de García Márquez”. IX International Seminar of Caribbean Studies. Cartagena, Colombia. August 3rd to -7th, 2009.
“Heterotopias of Desire: Sex, Money and Power in the Caribbean of Mayra Santos-Febres”. 34th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. Kingston, Jamaica. June 1st to 6th, 2009.
“Paradoxes of Nomadic Bodies: Cultural Identity and Female Subjectivity in Julia Álvarez y Cristina García”. 33rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. San Andrés, Colombia, May 26 to 30th, 2008.
“El imperio de las imágenes: La fotografía y el simulacro en Bello animal de Fanny Buitrago”. XIV Congreso de la Asociación de Colombianistas. Colombia: Tiempos de imaginación y desafío. Denison University. Greenville, Ohio, August 3rd to 6th, 2005.
“¿Una nación sin cuerpo?: Ciudad material y ciudad virtual en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago”. VII Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Cartagena de Indias, July 30 to August 2nd, 2005.
Academic and Research Awards
AEGS (Formerly Asociación de Letras y Cultura Femenina Hispánica) Victoria Urbano Prize to Best Critical Essay, 2018.
Faculty Research Award: “Incest, Writing and Patriarchal Authority in Chronicle of a Death Foretold” (article). Spring 2017.
Nicolás Guillén’s Award to Outstanding Book in Philosophical Literature, Caribbean Philosophical Association (2016-2017)
Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, supported by the by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment. 2016-2017
Honorable Mention. Premio Iberoamercano Book Award to La Rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal”. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016.
Premio Montserrat Ordóñez to La Rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal”. Sección Colombia, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016.
Faculty Leave Support. Bowdoin College, Spring 2017.
Faculty Professional Service Support Grant. Bowdoin College, 2014.
Faculty Research Award: On Intimate Realism: Gender, Love and Power in Gabriel García Márquez Bowdoin College. 2014-2015.
Faculty Research Award: “The Rebellion of the Girls (book publication).” Bowdoin College. 2013.
CBB Micro Grant for Faculty Mentoring. 2013.
Faculty Research Award: “The Rebellion of the Girls (research assistant).” Bowdoin College. 2012.
Faculty Leave Fellowship. Bowdoin College. Spring of 2011.
Course Development Award, “A Journey Around Macondo: García Márquez and His Contemporaries.” Bowdoin College. 2009.
Faculty Research Award: “A Body of One’s Own: Interviews with Latina and Caribbean Women Writers.” Bowdoin College. 2008.
Course Development Award: “A Body of One’s Own: Latina and Caribbean Women Writers.” Bowdoin College. 2007.
Fellowship. Summer Institute “Writing Las Americas”. Boston University. 2004.
Teaching
Bowdoin College. Department of Romance Languages and Latin American Studies Program. Brunswick, Maine. Fall 2007 to present. Associate Professor.
SP 204: Intermediate Spanish II.
SP/LAS 205: Advanced Spanish
SP/LAS 207: Latin American Cultures
SP/LAS 210: Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Essay and Narrative
HISP/LAS Attesting to Violence: Aesthetics of War and Peace in Contemporary Colombia
SP/LAS/ENG 305/250: The Making of a Race: Latino Fictions
SP/LAS 318: A Journey Around Macondo: García Márquez and His Contemporaries.
SP/LAS/AFRS 320: Beyond the Postcard: Thinking and writing the Caribbean
SP/LAS/GWS 326: A Body of One’s Own: Caribbean and Latina Writers
401: Independent Studies:
Narratives of Home: Migrant Women Writers from the Caribbean and Beyond
Literature and Activism in Latin American Women Writers
Drug Trafficking, Violence and Sexuality: Prostitution in Colombian Contemporary Literature
Central American Caribbean Authors
Cuban Women Writers
Colombian Contemporary Novel
Nuyorican Literature
Queer Latino’s Memories
Gender and Cultural Identity in Chicano/a Literature
Caribbean Thought
Chicana/Latina Literature and Theory
Universidad del Atlántico, Masters Program in Hispanic American Literature.
Barranquilla, Colombia. October 2018. Guest Professor.
"Intimidad y violencia en Cien años de soledad"
Barranquilla, Colombia. April to May 2016. Guest Professor.
Graduate Seminar: “Entre ficciones y fricciones: ‘conciencia corporal’ en el Caribe hispano”.
Barranquilla, Colombia. March 8th to 22nd, 2013. Guest Professor.
Graduate Seminar: “Un cuerpo propio: cuerpo y poder en escritoras del Caribe hispano”.
Universidad de Cartagena. Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe.
Cartagena, Colombia. Spring 2011. Visiting Scholar.
Graduate Research Seminar: “Ciudadanías en Movimiento: Cuerpo y poder en Cartagena y el Caribe”
Rutgers University. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Fall 2004 to Spring 2006. Teaching Assistant.
101: Elementary Spanish
139: Spanish for Native Speakers
332: Literature and Culture of the Hispanic Caribbean II
333: Literature and Culture of the Hispanic America I
331: Literature and Culture of the Hispanic Caribbean I
447: The Novel of Spanish America I
448: Novel of Spanish America II
Douglass College. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Fall 2004 to Spring 2005. Instructor, Spanish Cultural Experience.
Rassias Foundation. Princeton, Boston. 2005. Master Teacher and Assistant Teacher.
Rassias Immersion Program. Elementary to Advanced Spanish.
Middlebury College. Summer School of Spanish. Middlebury, Vermont. Summer 2004. Instructor. Intermediate Spanish Conversation and Composition.
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Cartagena, Colombia. 2001 to 2002. Lecturer.
Colombian Literature.
Universidad de Cartagena. Cartagena, Colombia. 2001 to 2002. Lecturer.
Culture Workshop.
Service at Bowdoin
Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Program Committee
Latin American Studies Program Committee
Working group on Classroom visitation, Fall 2016
Advisory Committee for a Diverse Community, 2015-2016
Faculty Diversity Committee. 2014-2015.
Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee. 2011 - 2013.
BASE Advisor. 2011-2012.
LASO – Latin American Students Organization (Advisor). 2007 to 2010, 2012-2013.
Bias Incident Committee. 2008 to 2010.
Professional Activities
Cultural Program Director. 44th Annual Caribbean Studies Association. 2019.
Academic Consultant. MUHCA, the Historical Museum of Cartagena de Indias. 2014-current.
Research Associate. Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios del Caribe. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México. 2016 – 2019.
Invited lecturer. Defensoría del pueblo de Bolívar. Cartagena de Indias, Mayo-Junio 2016.
Researcher in Residency. MUHCA, the Historical Museum of Cartagena de Indias. Spring 2016.
Founder and Co-chair. CTET. Commitee for Translation and Translingual Exchange. Caribbean Studies Association. 2014-current.
Program Committee. 39th, 40th and 41th Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association. 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016.
Elected member of the Executive Council. Caribbean Studies Association. 2011-2013, 2013-2015.
Co-founder and Chair. The Translingual Working Group. Caribbean Studies Association. 2011 to 2013.
Program Coordinator. X Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Cartagena. August 2010 to August 2011.
Academic Consultant. Cultural Agenda, and Bicentenary of Independence Commemoration. Instituto de Patrimonio y Cultura de Cartagena (World Heritage and Culture Institute of Cartagena). December 2010 to November 2011.
Academic Coordinator. Mercado Cultural del Caribe (Caribbean Cultural Market). Cartagena: August to December, 2010.
Academic Coordinator. Plan de Desarrollo de la Música Regional del Caribe colombiano. Cabildo Corporation and Ministry of Culture of Colombia. November 2010 to January 2011.
Associate Editor. Caribbean Studies Association Newsletter. 2010 to present.
Executive Board Member. Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. 2007 to present.
Elected Member of the Faculty and Students Liaisons Committee, and Elected Student Voting Member to the Faculty Meetings. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University, 2003 to 2006.
Co-coordinator of the Annual Graduate Student Conference: La Jornada. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University, 2003.
Professional Affiliations
Caribbean Philosophical Association, 2010 to present.
Caribbean Studies Association, 2007 to present.
Asociación de Colombianistas, 2006 to present.
Latin American Studies Association, 2004 to present.
Modern Languages Association, 2004 to present.
Other Professional Experience
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Graduate Residence Director. Office of Residence Life, Douglass College. 2005 to 2007.
Director of “La Casa Hispánica”. The Global Village. Douglass College. 2003 to 2005.
Assistant to the Director. Study Abroad Program in Spain. Summer of 2003.
Research Assistant. Prof. Liliana Sánchez. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 2002 to 2003.
Graduate Assistant. Language Institute Laboratories. 2002 to 2003.
Museum of History of Cartagena de Indias. Assistant to the Director. Cartagena. 2001 to 2002.
“Algo tan feo en la vida de dos señoras bien: Los relatos de formación de Marvel Moreno y Rosario Ferré”. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 34.3 (Spring of 2010): 559-580.
“Hay bicentenario: Entre la Cartagena real y la imaginada.” Prologue to Hay Bicentenario. Independencia de Cartagena de Indias, 1811-2011.Cartagena: Instituto de Patrimonio y Cultura, 2011. 10-16.