Faculty Profile
Carolina Castellanos Gonella
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (2010)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall
717-245-1834
Office Hours for Fall 2025: T 2:30 - 4:30pm
Bio
Professor Castellanos Gonella's research focuses on 20th and 21st centuries Latin American literature (Brazilian and Mexican narrative). More specifically, she works with a gender and sexuality studies lens. Her first book, Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature, analyzes gender transgressive characters in the Mexican novel Los de abajo, the Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara, and the Brazilian novel Grande sertão: veredas (Purdue University Press, November 2024). Her second book manuscript examines how women involved in drug trafficking in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico are portrayed in newspapers. Professor Castellanos Gonella's work has been published in scholarly journals such as Latin American Research Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, Journal of Lusophone Studies, Chasqui, Literatura mexicana, and others.
Education
- B.A., Universidad de Los Andes, Bogot谩, 2000
- M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004
- M.A., Vanderbilt University, 2007
- Ph.D., 2010