• Chicanx Studies
• Latinx Studies
• Mexican American Studies
• México and Cuba
• Modern Latin American Literature
• Human Trafficking
• Migration and Transculturation

Books

• Spanish for the Professions. Co-author with Dr. Marta Boris Tarré. 2nd Edition. Cognella, Academic Publishing. January 2024.
• Celaya, Lori B, and RE Toledo. Nos Volvimos a Pasar/We Crossed Again. Vol. 1, Editorial Colibrí, 2023.
• Celaya, Lori B, and RE Toledo. Nos pasamos de la raya/We Crossed The Line. Vol. 2. (2021)
• Celaya, Lori, and Sonja Watson, editors. Transatlantic, Transcultural and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture and Migration. Lexington, 2021. Print.
• Celya, Lori, and Marta Boris Tarré. Spanish for the Professions. San Diego: Cognella, 2019. (Second edition in collaboration with Marta Boris Tarré).
• Celaya, Lori, and Marta Boris. Spanish for the Professions. San Diego: Cognella, 2016. Print.
• Celaya, Lori, and RE Toledo. "Popping Gum, Tronar El Chicle, Al Cesar Lo Que Es Del Cesar." Nos Pasamos De La Raya/We Crossed The Line. Vol. 1. Mexico: Abismos, 2015. Print.
• México visto desde su litertura norte: Identidades propias de la transculturación y la migración. Serie Nuevo Siglo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. Print.

Articles

• Celaya, Lori. “Bidirectional Shifts and Transformations in and through US Latina Diasporic Narratives.” Transatlantic, Transcultural, And Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture and Migration, edited by Lori Celaya and Sonja Watson, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2021, pp. 133–159. 
• “Abordajes Multidisciplinarios En La Creación De Una demanda de prostitución en Tijuana en conexión con la trata humana para la explotación sexual” In Collaboration with Dr. Marta Boris Tarré (first author) Argus-a Vol, Sept. 2018, www.argus-a.com.ar/publicacion/1374--abordajes-multidisciplinarios-en-la-creacion-de-una-demanda-de-prostitucion-en-tijuana-en-conexion-con-la-trata-humana-para-la-explotacion-sexual.html. ISSN 1853-9904.
• Female Trafficking at Mexico’s Northern Border: A View of the Client’s Role. Slavery Today: Fall 2016.
• Cuban Reconciliation: The Search for Community in Uva de Aragón’s Memoria del Silencio. La Aduana Vieja. Spring (2014): 23. Print.
• Pachuco, Pocho and Cholo: Symbolism and Nationalist Representation Conflicts.

Films Produced

• Celaya, Lori B. Friends in High Places. Pocha Productions, 2022
• Celaya, Lori B. La Sirena. Pocha Productions, 2019, https://youtu.be/G78sZWa_kyE?si=Y2MxxoMQ7CZ6R1GH

Forth Coming Articles

• “The Female Gaze: Representation and the Self in La Sirena by Christen Celaya and Piel Canela by Michel Saucedo” 
• “Innovative Pedagogical Approaches to Acquisition of Spanish for the Professions: A Case Study.” In collaboration with Dr. Marta Boris Tarré. 

Creative Writing in Progress

• “Silent Nation”
• “Pilgrims of the fields”
• “Alma and Almodovar” (Full length feature)
  “La Mano” 
• “Recovering Craig”
• “My Brother’s Keeper”
  

Spanish for the Professions Textbook

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville MIFLC October 7, 2018
• University of Texas, Arlington. Dallas. Sept. 23, 2015. Dallas, Texas.
• Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture (IATLC). Boise, Idaho. Oct. 2, 2015.

Lori Celaya writes and lectures on several aspects of the border that simultaneously separates and unites México and the United States. She also delves into Chicanx, Mexican-American and Latinx issues that are rooted in migration, transculturation, human trafficking, and identity formation. Her interest in these areas is not limited to revealing the existence of affinities and the divergence among individuals from the border, Chicanx, Latinx, and Mexicans-Americans, but to exemplify the extent to which such differences and similarities are manifested in their literature, culture and history. She pays close attention to gender, ethnic and socio-economic issues as she strives to examine these matters from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes the myriad of cross-cultural exchanges affecting the hemispheric relations brought about by the multiple colonizations experienced by these peoples.

Nos Pasamos de la raya/We Crossed The Line

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville MIFLC October 8, 2018
• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Mexico City. Oct. 19, 2015.
• Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Puebla. Oct. 15, 2015.
• Etcétera Espacio Experimental. Puebla. Oct. 15, 2015.
• Feria Internacional del Libro. Mexico City. Oct. 14, 2015.
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). México City. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Oct. 13, 2015.
• Feria del Libro Hispana/Latina en New York. New York. Oct. 10, 2015.
• Hola. Colloquium. Knoxville, Tennessee. Sept. 23, 2015.
• Casa del libro. San Juan. June 2, 2015.

Spanish for the Professions Textbook

• University of Texas, Arlington. Dallas. Sept. 23, 2015. Dallas, Texas.
• Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture (IATLC). Boise, Idaho. Oct. 2, 2015.

• Red Cross Blood Drive 
• Habitat for Humanity on site
• Moscow ID Food Bank: Canned Food Drive
• Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI): “Animals of the Night” 
• Westbrook Elementary School: Hispanic Culture 
• Good Samaritan-Fairview Village

• Dr. Arthur Maxwell Taylor Excellence in Diversity Award (2021)
• Alumni Award for Excellence, Yadira Estrada (Fall, 2018)
• Alumni Award for Excellence, Jessica Betancourt-Medina (Fall 2018)
• Alumni Award for Excellence, Maria Soledad Horta Vorse (Fall, 2017)
• Lamda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority: Universal Woman Award, April 25, 2013
• Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Beta Gamma Chapter: Hermana de Apoyo Award, May 2013
• Puentes Community Resources Inc., Knoxville Tenn: Community Leadership Award, April 2010
• NAPPE, Johnson City, Tenn: Award of Excellence, Promising Practices: Successful Students, Fall 2003

Lori Celaya, Ph.D. associate professor of Spanish and co-director of Latin American studies. She was born in Mexicali B.C. México, but grew up in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of “México visto desde su literatura norte: identidades propias de la transculturación y la migración” (México Viewed from its Northern Border: Identities that Result from Migration and Transculturation) 2013. She has published on Chicanx ad Latinx identity issues, Human Trafficking at the US-Mexico Border; Celaya also published “Nos pasamos de la raya/We Crossed The Line” a bilingual/bicultural compilation that includes one of her poems and one of her short stories. She co-authored a “Spanish for the Professions” text that is presently being used at over fifty colleges and universities. Currently, she continues to speak, research and publish on issues related to the United States-Mexico Border, Mexican-Americans, Chicanx and Latinx in relation to Latin America and the United States and she is finalizing the second volume of Nos pasamos de la raya as well completing a co-edited volume entitled “Transatlantic and Transcultural Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration.” Before going into academia, Celaya had a career in the film and television industry and was featured in several commercials, industrials and other film and television productions. At present Lori Celaya is the executive producer for the independent film La Sirena and a forthcoming web series Friends in High Places.