Dr. Karina Zelaya

Assistant Professor

1500 Lee Hall

Joined CMLL in:

2014

Office Hour: Tuesday 9:00am-10:00am & by appointment

Late 19th and early 20th Century Central American Literature (narrative) and other forms of the region’s cultural production
Latin@ Literature, Latinx cultural production in the South
Culture in the language classroom
Academic writing with cultural specific content
Latin American Cultural Studies

“Conceptualizing and Problematizing Space: Teaching Central American Literature and Culture in Central America,” Co-authored with Brian Davisson. Forthcoming in Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, MLA Anthology Edited by Monica Abizures and Gloria Chacón, 2021
CMLL Symposium Series, The Metaphor of the Monster, Co-Editor with Keith Moser of the first book in the series. Bloomsbury Press, October 2020
"La Siguanaba y la búsqueda de la identidad cultural salvadoreña en los siglos XX y XXI," Istmo 34 (2017)

Institutional nominee for The Höffmann Academic Award for Intercultural Competence, highly competitive international award University of Vechta, Germany. November 2020
Mississippi State University Diversity Award, ($1000) February 2019. This recognition is awarded on a competitive basis at the university level for efforts made towards advancing awareness and well-being of diverse communities at Mississippi State

Governor’s Emergency Education Response (GEER)/CARES Act. “MSU Support for Online Language Teaching,” US Department of Education. Award $104,683.
College of Arts and Sciences, Mississippi State University. Strategic Research Initiative grant, awarded December 2019 to conduct archival work in El Salvador; and in preparation of phase I of the “Salarrué Digital Archive” project.

African American Studies Program, Mississippi State University
Program de Maestria en Literatura Centroamericana, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University