Maria Celina Bortolotto

Celina Bortolotto is a Senior Lecturer in the Spanish Programme at Massey University of New Zealand. Celina is interested in exploring the interrelation between cultural values and individual emotions as it is represented in literary fiction. Her 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., bringing together literary criticism, psychoanalytical research and postcolonial and gender theory. She is currently working on a book-length project on Argentinian humourist Roberto Fontanarrosa. Celina teaches courses on Advanced Spanish language, Translation, Spanish Phonetics and Hispanic Literature.