Giseli Tordin
Senior Lector I of Spanish and Portuguese; Portuguese Language Program Director
Giseli Tordin is a Senior Lector of Spanish and Portuguese and the Director of the Portuguese Language Program.
Her scholarly interests include Latin American, Iberian, and Luso-Brazilian studies, the intersection of psychoanalysis, literature, and film, women filmmakers, decolonial feminism, memory, ecofeminism, and the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese as additional languages. Her work emphasizes transatlantic perspectives, contemporary literacies, the use of technology to create video essays and short films (documentaries and animation), didactic sequences, and project-based learning.
She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.