Dr. Giseli Tordin

Biography

Giseli Tordin is a Senior Lector at Yale University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and serves as the Director of the Portuguese Language Program. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2017. Her scholarly interests encompass Latin American, Iberian, and Luso-Brazilian studies, with a focus on the intersection of psychoanalysis, literature, and film, as well as women filmmakers, decolonial feminism, memory, and ecofeminism. Tordin's work emphasizes transatlantic perspectives and contemporary literacies, utilizing technology to create video essays and short films. She has coordinated an intermediate Spanish course and created cohesive didactic sequences that incorporate authentic materials, promoting project-based learning. Tordin has developed a Portuguese curriculum aimed at enhancing immersion and fostering community. She teaches various courses intertwining language, culture, cinema, photography, and literature. In addition to her teaching, she has initiated a series of interviews with students titled 'Students Portuguese Spanish Interview Latin American Iberian Women Authors' and directed public readings of significant works. Recently, she has explored themes of ethnicity and aging in Latin American filmmaking through chapters in academic publications.

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