Santiago Ospina Celis
Editorial Fellow
Santiago Ospina Celis is an editorial fellow at New Lines and leads the magazine’s expanding coverage of Latin America. He comes to us via the Public Humanities Doctoral Fellowship at NYU, where he is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature. He is a writer, translator and critic currently based in Bogota, Colombia. His work has appeared in U.S. and international outlets such as Critical Inquiry and El Malpensante. In 2023, he published “Las Muertes” (“The Deaths”), a short story collection, in Spanish. Before joining New Lines, he was managing editor of the Hemispheric Institute at NYU.
Latest from Santiago Ospina Celis
A Rekindled Conflict Has Pushed Colombia Into a State of Emergency
Colombian president Gustavo Petro has been in the global spotlight for his war of words with Donald Trump over the deportation of migrants, but that incident has overshadowed a storm brewing at home — one that led Petro to declare a state of emergency that temporarily grants him extraordinary powers.
One Hundred Years of Betrayal
The debate surrounding the Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” provides an opportunity to appreciate the novel’s artistry, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s insights into the art of fiction, and the troubled path of his legacy over the decade since his death.