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Isabel is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a BA in Modern Languages (Spanish, French and Portuguese) from the University of Cambridge, during which she spent a year studying at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 

Her research has previously engaged with ecopoetical readings of indigenista and neo-indigenista literature from the Andes, and the production of counter-cartographical and counter-temporal narratives within contemporary Latin American fiction, particularly through the lens of rhythm and resonance. She has co-authored interdisciplinary research combining photographic fieldwork, criminal law and literary studies to help understand the role of semiotic practices as they relate to the growth of social inequality in Peru. 

Isabel’s interests currently include ecological explorations of mimesis between bodies and landscapes in contemporary Latin American culture, theories of the archive across history, and questions of referentiality.