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Denise Callejas, PH.D.

Morehouse College

Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division Faculty
  • Assistant Professor,  Spanish and Portuguese
Education

Dr. Denise Callejas received her M.A. in Spanish from Florida State University and her Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese with a certificate in women and gender studies from Vanderbilt University. She specializes in contemporary Latin American poetry, Central American women writers, Afro-Latin American literature, and Lusophone studies. She is also the faculty director for the Morehouse in Brazil Study Abroad program. Her latest research project is a book manuscript that analyzes the relationship between aesthetics and democracy in the poetry of the Costa Rican poet and politician Carmen Naranjo (1928-2012).

Contact:

Email
denise.callejas@morehouse.edu

Office Location
Brawley 315D

Phone
470.639.0772

Office Hours
TBD

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Latin American poetry, Central American women writers, Afro-Latin American literature, and Lusophone studies.

Publications & Presentations

Democracy as Resistance: Carmen Naranjo’s Mi guerrilla (1977)

By Marisela Martinez-Cola | 2018, Hispanic Journal: Special Issue on Latin American Poetry