JOSE DARÍO CASTELLANOS MELÉNDEZ

jcastel4@nd.edu
https://nd.academia.edu/JoseCastellanos
+1 (857) 999 - 6270

EDUCATION
University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN,
USA
PhD in Spanish Since Fall 2019
Advisor: Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams
Department of Romance Languages

GLOBES Graduate Certificate in Environment and Society Since Fall 2021

John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia

B.A. in Literary Studies Graduated in May 2015

Minor: History

EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN,

USA

Race and Violence – Teaching Assistant for Prof. Joshua Lund Fall 2021
Spanish 10102 Spring 2021
Spanish 10102 Fall 2020
Spanish 10102 Spring 2020
Spanish 10101 Fall 2019

Colegio Tilatá (Highschool) La Calera, Colombia

Coordinator of the Spanish and Literature Department 2016 - 2018

Teacher for the Spanish and Literature Department 2014 -

2016

Rapsoda, Itinerant School for Rap and Literature Bogotá, Colombia

Co-creator and workshop facilitator August, 2018 – August

2019
Tinta.org Bogotá, Colombia

Creator of pedagogical content August, 2018 – August, 2019

Colombian Ministry of Education Bogotá, Colombia

Collaborator for the Division for the Quality Management of Education December
2016

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation Fall 2021 – Spring 2022

Translation project coordinated by prof. Mark A. Sanders (University of Notre Dame)

Co-translator of Desde la sombra del silencio, a novel by afro-Ecuadorian

writer Luz Argentina Chiriboga

Sombralarga, Magazine for Colombian Literature Bogota, Colombia

Founder and member of the editorial committee. 2013 - 2020

CTXT.es Bogota, Colombia

Guest coordinator for the October Special on Colombia September - October 2018

V Hispanic-American Short Story Prize “Gabriel García Márquez” Bogotá, Colombia

Member of the preliminary readers committee July 2018

PEER REVIEWING
Revista CS (ISSN 2011-0324/e-ISSN 2665-4814) Cali, Colombia
Published by the School of Law and Social Sciences Fall 2021
ICESI University
PUBLICATIONS

• Castellanos, José. «’No le ladres, Brujita, déjala pasar’. Perros y muerte en algunas novelas de
Fernando Vallejo». In: Del Valle, Camilo (Ed.) Las impertinencias de Fernando Vallejo.
Políticas de la ironía, el humor y el escándalo. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert
[Forthcoming].

• Castellanos, José. «Las metamorfosis de Acteón. Una relectura de Muerte de Narciso

desde las miradas animales». Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, vol. I, n.o
VIII, septiembre de 2021, pp. 254-70.

• Castellanos, Jose. «Review of American Magnitude. Hemispheric Vision and Public

Feeling in the United States, by Christa J. Olson.» A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios
latinoamericanos, vol. 19, n  2, Winter 2022, pp. 288–95.

• Castellanos, Jose. «La materia del mundo: sobre nuevos materialismos dialécticos y la
globalidad de América Latina. Reseña de Things with a History. Transcultural Materialism and
the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America, de Héctor Hoyos.» Brújula:
revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos, vol. XIII, 2020, pp. 215-20.
• “This Country Still Misses an Authoritarian Father, As You Can See With Álvaro Uribe. An
Interview to Ángela María Robledo, Colombia’s Ex-Vice-Presidential Candidate”. With Sonia
Ariza. CTXT.es, October 3rd, 2018. Available here.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Notre Dame Environmental Humanities Initiative Spring 2021 – Present

Director: Prof. Roy Scranton, PhD

TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “Bovine Metaphors: Cattle and armed conflict in Sacrifice by Clemencia Echeverri”.
Congress of the Instituto Iberoamericano de Literatura Latinoamericana (IILI) at National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Athens
Accepted: July 5-8, 2023

• “A bestiary of the human: Animals and sovereignty-of-the-self in the testimony Even Silence
Has an End, by Ingrid Betancourt”.
Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA) at Rafael Landívar University.
Guatemala City
July 18-22, 2022
• “Border violences and erotic/ecological resistance in the poetry of Emmy Pérez”.
Congress of the Latino Studies Association (LSA)
South Bend, IN
July 11-14, 2022

• “Natural witnesses of destruction: Ruins and history of dispossession in Silencios, by Juan

Manuel Echavarría, and Equí y n’otru tiempu, by Ramón Lluís Bande”.
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Virtual congress
May 5-8, 2022

• “Post-humanized war: A reading essay of animals in Colombian armed conflict”.

Backstitches, graduate conference by the Program in Hispanic & Portuguese Studies at the
Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, PA.
February 25-26, 2022

• “María and the Myths of Social Harmony: Panel with Marixa Lasso and Valeria Coronel”.
Colombian National Library. Moderator.
Bogotá
August 17, 2017

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

• Conference Presentation Grant $250

Graduate Student Government
University of Notre Dame Spring, 2022

• Conference Presentation Grant $500

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Notre Dame Spring, 2022

• Graduate School Professional Development Award $1100

Graduate School
University of Notre Dame Spring, 2022

• Presidential Fellowship
University of Notre Dame 2019
• Grant for Projects that Promote Reading and/or Writing. Awarded to “Rapsoda: Itinerant
School for Rap and Literature”. Awarded by the District Department of Culture, Recreation and
Sports (SCRD).
2019

• Grant for Emergent and Independent Editorial Projects. Awarded to: Sombralarga, Magazine
for Colombian Literature, by the District Institute of the Arts (IDARTES)
2015

• Scholarship to study any undergraduate program at Javeriana University with 80% financing.
Awarded to top 11 high school seniors who applied to the university for the first semester 2009.

2009 - 2013
LANGUAGES
• Spanish: native.
• English: advanced; TOEFL 112/120.
• Portuguese: intermediate reading.
• German: intermediate (B2)