°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼

skip to content

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Prof Joanna Page

Photo of Joanna Page
Position(s): 
Professor of Latin American Studies
Director of Studies in MML at Robinson College
Director of the Centre of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
Department/Section: 
Spanish & Portuguese
Centre of Latin American Studies
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details: 
Telephone number: 
+44 (0)122339577
College: 
Location: 

Robinson College Grange Road °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ CB3 9AN

Ìý

About: 

Joanna Page's research focuses on the relationship between science and culture in Latin America, and she has worked on a range of different media, including literature, film, graphic fiction and visual arts, particularly from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. She is also interested in questions of memory, modernity, capitalism, posthumanism,Ìýnew materialism, decoloniality and environmental thought in Latin America.Ìý

The books she has published are listed below, and many of them are available on open access via the links given.ÌýFor more details of the essays and articles Joanna has published, please see herÌýpage onÌý.

Joanna welcomes contact viaÌýemailÌýfrom prospective PhD students or fellow academics working in similar fields.Ìý

Ìý

  • Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine CinemaÌý(Duke University Press, 2009)
  • Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and FormalismÌý(University of Calgary Press, 2014,ÌýÌýon open access)
  • Science Fiction in Argentina:ÌýTechnologies of the Text in a Material MultiverseÌý(University of Michigan Press, 2016,ÌýÌýavailable on open access)
  • Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, co-authored with Ed King (UCL Press, 2017,ÌýÌýon open access)
  • Decolonizing Science in Latin American ArtÌý(UCL Press, 2021, on open access)
  • Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American ArtÌý(Open Book Publishers, 2023, on open access)

She is also the co-editor ofÌýthe following volumes:

  • Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin AmericaÌý(with MiriamÌýHaddu,ÌýPalgraveÌýMacmillan, 2009)
  • Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific ImaginaryÌýin Latin AmericaÌý(withÌýMaríaÌýBlanco, University of Florida Press, 2020)

She was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2012 and was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded international research network "" (2014-2016). Her project ‘Science and the Arts in Contemporary Latin America: Constructing a Life in Common’ (2018-2020) was funded by the British Academy. She is currently the recipient of a °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Humanities Research Grant for a project on ‘Art, Science, and Environmental Justice in Latin America’.

For more details on Joanna Page’s publications and links to downloadable/online essays, seeÌýÌýandÌý.

Ìý

Teaching interests: 

Joanna teaches on the MPhil in Latin American Studies, the MPhilÌýin European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, and the MPhil in Film and Screen Studies. SheÌýsupervises PhD projects on topics relating to Argentine and Chilean culture. SheÌýalso lectures and supervises for a number of undergraduate papers on Hispanic andÌýLatin American culture for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Published works: 

For a list of selected publications, please see here.

Ìý