Celeste Kostopolus Cooperman

Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman

Professor of Spanish

Office: Fenton 553

Voicemail: (617) 573-8674

Professor Kostopulos-Cooperman holds an M.A. (1976) and a Ph.D. (1980) in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. She teaches all levels of Spanish language classes and courses in Latin American culture (including Latin American Cinema, The Latin American Short Narrative, and Translation as Art and Craft), and serves as the Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Chair of the Study Abroad Committee for the College of Arts and Sciences. Her special areas of concentration are in modern and contemporary Latin American prose and poetry, women’s literature, political and human rights narratives, and translation theory and practice. Her translations of Latin American women’s poetry have appeared in Harper’s, Human Rights Quarterly, City Lights (San Francisco), The Bitter Oeander (New York), The Index on Censorship (London, England), Agni (Boston University), El Coro (U. Mass. Amherst), The American Voice (Kentucky), The Michigan Quarterly Review, Bridges, Blue Mesa, Black Moon, Americas, and The Massachusetts Review. She has also translated a number of books by Marjorie Agosín, including A Cross and a Star (University of New Mexico, 1995), An Absence of Shadows (New York: White Pine Press, 1998), and Always from Somewhere Else (New York: The Feminist Press, 1999). Recipient of the Outstanding Translation Award from The American Literary Translations Association for Circles of Madness (New York: White Pine Press, 1992), her most recent publication, also with White Pine, 2003, is At the Threshold of Memory / Selected and New Poems by Marjorie Agosin.