NADIA V. CELIS Associate Professor Department of Romance

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
[email protected] - (207) 721 5687
EDUCATION
2007
2004
2001 - 2002
2000
Ph. D. Spanish. Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Graduate Certificate. Gender and Women’s Studies.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
M. A. Spanish. Rutgers University. New Brunswick.
Graduate Studies. Literature of the Colombian Caribbean.
Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia.
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.
Honorable mention, Premio Iberoamericano by LASA (Latin American Studies Association), 2016
Premio Montserrat Ordóñez, Colombia Section of LASA, 2016
Lección errante: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo. Co-edited with Juan Pablo Rivera.
San Juan: Isla Negra, 2011.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
“Las niñas del Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’: Apuntes para una descolonización encarnada.”
Under review
“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.
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“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:
“Violencia íntima y poder en En diciembre llegaban las brisas de Marvel Moreno”. Under review
“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, 2016.
“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:
“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 Books and Proceedings:
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“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:
Regular 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
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“Mayra Santos-Febres: El lenguaje de los cuerpos”. A Body of One’s Own: Conversations with
Caribbean and Latina Writers. Brunswick: Bowdoin College, 2008. DVD.
“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.
“Fanny Buitrago: La magia de contar historias”. A Body of One’s Own: Conversations with Caribbean
and Latina Writers. Brunswick: Bowdoin College, 2007. DVD.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
On Intimate Realism: Gender, Love and Power in Gabriel García Márquez. Book-project
El tercer ojo: Fanny Buitrago y la ‘autenticidad’ Caribe. Book-project
"The Caribbean Antidote: ‘corporeal consciousness’ in Señora de la miel by Fanny Buitrago." Article
“‘Misterios’ in Motion: Rita Indiana’s Aesthetics of Translation.” Article
GUEST LECTURES AND SEMINARS
“Rebeliones encarnadas: El Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’” (Seminar). Instituto Internacional de
Estudios del Caribe. Cartagena, May-June 2016.
“Rebeliones encarnadas: El Caribe y la ‘conciencia corporal’”. Fundación Cultural Casa Colombo
Alemana. Cartagena, June 2016.
“Epistemologías encarnadas: Cuerpo y poder en las escritoras del Caribe”. Universidad de la Salle.
Bogotá, May 2016.
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.
“Del cuerpo apropiado al cuerpo propio: corporalidad, subjetividad y poder”. Semillero de
Investigación en Geofísica, Universidad del Rosario. Bogotá, May 2016.
“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, Abril 1st, 2016
“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.
“La mujer en Macondo”. Feria del Libro de Bogotá. Abril 30, 2015.
“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.
“Amor y poder en Gabriel García Márquez”. National Association of Spanish Teachers Annual Meeting,
Maine Chapter. Lewiston, ME, October 23, 2014.
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“Cuestión de Género”. Cátedra Gabriel García Márquez 2014. Parque Cultural del Caribe. July 22nd
to 25th, Barranquilla, Colombia.
“Caribbean Bodies in the Global Market: Is Shakira Lost in Translation?”. Massachussets College of
Arts and Design. December 5, 2013.
“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.
“Heterotopies of Desire: Bodies and Power in Mayra Santos-Febres”. Faculty Seminar Series.
Bowdoin College, November 6th, 2012.
“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.
“Sexuality and Power in Mayra Santos Febres’ Work”. Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Hunter
College, CUNY. New York, April 2nd, 2012.
“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.
“Cuerpo y cultura: una celebración erudita del baile”. IX International Seminar of Caribbean Studies.
Cartagena, Colombia. August 5th, 2009.
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.
“La retórica de las caderas: Shakira o de la caribeñidad transnacional.” Fundación Pies descalzos,
Barranquilla, March 20th, 2010.
“Caribbean Bodies in the Global Market: Shakira’s Hips Lost in Translation”. Mount Holyoke College.
Massachusetts, April 2nd, 2009.
“The Rhetoric of Hips: Shakira’s Embodiment and the Quest for Caribbean Identity”. Faculty Seminar
Series. Bowdoin College, October 22nd, 2008.
“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.
“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.
“Mujeres escritoras en el Caribe colombiano: De los sesentas a los ochentas”. Gender Studies
Graduate Program. Universidad del Atlántico. Barranquilla, August 14, 2002.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS
“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 3rd to 7th, 2013.
“Caribbean Bodies in the Global Market: Lost in Translation?”. 38th Annual Conference of the
Caribbean Studies Association. Grenada, June 3rd to 7th, 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.
“Performing Caribbeannes: Embodiment and Citizenship in Cartagena’s Public Squares.” SEPHIS
(South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) Workshop: Equity,
Justice, Development: People of African Descent in Latin America in Comparative Perspective.
Cartagena: March 24th to 26th, 2011.
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“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.
“Razones de vida y Escrito para no morir: Testimonio femenino y conflicto armado en Colombia”.
Arms and Letters. Graduate Students’ Conference at SUNY. Stony Brook, April 9th, 2005.
“Sobre el impertinente deseo en El curioso impertinente”. Quixotic Repercussions and Impacts.
Graduate Students’ Conference at University of Chicago. April 22nd to 23rd, 2005.
“Entre el amor y el odio: Ambivalencia materna, depresión e identidad femenina en dos cuentos de
Marvel Moreno”. From Medieval Times to Post-modernity: The Literary and Cultural Shaping of the
Hispanic Worlds. Graduate Students’ Conference. Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, March 26th and 27th, 2004.
“Las multitudes, el mercado y la crisis del letrado finisecular en José María Vargas Vila”. Literatura e
instituciones. 13th Annual Conference of Graduate Students. Columbia University and NYU. New
York, April 1st to 3rd, 2004.
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“De pícaros y champetúos: Un espejo barroco para las identidades caribeñas contemporáneas”. La
Jornada. Graduate Students’ Conference. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University.
New Brunswick, October 25th, 2003.
“La mujer del caribe colombiano en Algo tan feo en la vida de una señora bien”. La Jornada.
Graduate Students’ Conference. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University. New
Brunswick, October 12th, 2002.
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH AWARDS
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.
Pre-Dissertation Research Grant. “Cuerpo, ciudad y nación en las novelistas del Caribe:
representaciones de niñas y adolescentes”. Rutgers University. 2006.
Fellowship. MA and PhD Program in Spanish. Graduate School of New Brunswick. Rutgers University.
2002-2003 and 2006-2007.
Fellowship. Summer Institute “Writing Las Americas”. Boston University. 2004.
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Fellowship. First Linguistic Exchange with the English Caribbean (Study Abroad program). Comisión
Regional de Ciencia y Tecnología del Caribe Colombiano and ICFES. University of the West Indies.
Kingston, Jamaica. Summer 2000.
TEACHING
Universidad del Atlántico, Masters Program in Hispanic American Literature.
Barranquilla, Colombia. April to May 2016. Guest Professor.
Graduate Seminar: “Entre ficciones y fricciones: ‘conciencia corporal’ en el Caribe hispano”.
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
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: The Hispanic 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
On the Development of Consciousness: 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. 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
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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
Advisory Committee for a Diverse Community, 2015-2016
Latin American Studies Program Committee. 2007 to present.
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
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.
Academic Consultant. MUHCA, the Historical Museum of Cartagena de Indias. 2014-current.
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. 20132014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016.
Co-founder and Chair. The Translingual Working Group. Caribbean Studies Association. 2011 to 2013.
Elected member of the Executive Council. Caribbean Studies Association. 2011-2013, 2013-2015.
Program Coordinator. X Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Instituto Internacional de
Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Cartagena. August 2010 to August 2011.
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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.
International Institute of Caribbean Studies. Assistant to the Director. Cartagena. 1999 to 2002.