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Nadia Celis Receives Award for La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal”

March 1, 2016

Nadia V. Celis
Nadia V. Celis

The 2016 Premio Iberoamericano Award Committee of the Latin American Studies Association has awarded an honorable mention to Nadia Celis’s book, La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal” (The Rebellion of Girls: The Caribbean and “Corporeal Consciousness”).

LASA is the largest and most well-known professional association in the area of Latin American studies. Celis, an associate professor of Romance languages and literatures, specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American, Hispanic Caribbean and Latino Literature
, Caribbean studies, and feminist theory and criticism, among other subjects.

La rebelión de las niñas, published in 2015, is a study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, as well as a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.  Read more about the book here.

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Margaret Boyle Wins Book Prize for ‘Unruly Women’

October 18, 2015

Margaret Boyle
Professor Margaret Boyle

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Margaret Boyle’s new book, Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain, has received an honorable mention from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for best book on women and gender in 2014.

The prize committee praised Boyle’s book as a highly original study examining the relationship between public theaters and correctional institutions for women in early modern Spain. “Your carefully focused study made for fascinating reading and provided an important model for the use of historical sources in the analysis of literary texts,” the committee said.

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