Dr (María) Celina Bortolotto

Adjunct Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

(María) Celina Bortolotto

Biography

María Celina Bortolotto moved to NZ from the US in 2008 and in 2011 joined the Spanish Programme at Massey University. She started as an Adjunct Lecturer in Spanish at UNE in 2012.Celina loves people, books and good food.

Qualifications

PhD in English and Comparative Literature (2008), UNC (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), USA

Teaching Areas

SPAN203 The Sound of Spanish: Diction, Dialects and Diversity
SPAN301 Advanced Spanish Language
SPAN304 Theory and Practice of Translation

Research Interests

I am interested in exploring the interrelation between cultural values and individual emotions as it is represented in literary fiction. My research uses a particular interdisciplinary approach to read and interpret the relation between emotions (especially shame and humour) and cultural identities in contemporary fiction from the Caribbean, Latin America and the U.S.A., bringing together literary criticism, psychoanalytical research and postcolonial and gender theory. I am also currently working on  emotion and motivation in L2 learning.

Research Supervision Experience

As Post-Graduate (Co-) Supervisor

Honours thesis – Paddy Quinn “Enseñando quiénes somos: Anticuadas representaciones sexistas y racistas en dos manuales escolares en uso en las escuelas colombianas de la costa caribe”. (Completed Nov 2015, 1st class) School of Arts, UNE.

Ph.D. thesis – Shazrah Salam “A Feminist Reading of Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English” (completed 2019) with Dr. Kim Worthington, School of English and Media Studies, Massey University.

M.A. thesis – Raquel Direnzo “Emotional Engagement in Second Language Teaching of Spanish” (completed 2017) with Dr. Cynthia White, School of Humanities, Massey University.

Publications

More recent

2021

- Bortolotto, M., & Farnsworth, M. (2021). Los cuerpos de los otros: Mandatos patriarcales y cuerpos rebeldes de mujeres en Elena Sabe (2007) de Claudia Piñeiro. MIFLC Review 20, 32-51.http://miflc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Bortolotto-Summer-Farnsworth-Volume-20.pdf(Journal article)

2020

- Bortolotto M, Berardi-Wiltshire A. TE HĀ O TE REO: TEACHING THE BEAUTY OF THE MĀORI LANGUAGE cadernos de liguistica 1(3):1-15 29 Sep 2020 (Journal article)

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- Berardi-Wiltshire A, Bortolotto MC, Morris H. Motivation as ethical self-formation in learning te reo Māori as a second language Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 01 Jan 2020 (Journal article)

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- Bortolotto M, Pellegrin A. Introducción: All Fontanarrosa: The Work of a Complete Humorist/Todo Fontanarrosa: la obra de un humorista completo Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 25(3):229-232 Apr 2020 (Journal article)

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- Bortolotto MC. Las hilachas de los machos: masculinidad argentina en los cuentos de Fontanarrosa Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 25(3):325-338 02 Sep 2019 (Journal article)

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- Bortolotto MC, Pellegrin A. All Fontanarrosa: The Work of a Complete Humorist/Todo Fontanarrosa: la obra de un humorista completo 02 Sep 2019 (Scholarly edition)

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2019

- Bortolotto M. Claudia Piñeiro, Entrevista. Hispamerica-Revista de Literatura 55-62 01 Oct 2019 (Journal article)

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2018

- Bortolotto M. Shameful sins: a Reaction to Capitalist Ethics in No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (2006) CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture 20(6) Article number 5 15 Dec 2018 (Journal article)

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- Bortolotto M. Untangling Literary Knots: Writing, Memory, and Identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés’ Rosas de Abolengo (2011) In Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish. 73-91. Palgrave, US 20 Nov 2018 (Chapter)

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Memberships

  • MLA (Modern Languages Association –US)
  • NZALT (New Zealand Association of Language Teachers)
  • Editorial Committee member of US journal Label me Latina/o