Joanna Page (academic)
Joanna Page | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Academic |
| Employer | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Latin American studies, science and culture, CRASSH |
| Title | Professor of Latin American Studies |
| Website | mmll.cam.ac.uk/jep29 |
Joanna Page FBA is a British academic specialising in Latin American studies. She is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Education and career
Page is a Professor in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches Latin American literature and visual culture. She served as Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies from 2014 to 2018.
In October 2022, she became Director of CRASSH, a major interdisciplinary research centre at Cambridge. She has been a Fellow of Robinson College since 2002.
In 2025, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Research
Page’s research focuses on the relationship between science and culture in Latin America, including literature, cinema, comics, and visual art. Her work also addresses topics such as memory, posthumanism, decolonial theory, environmental justice, and political ecology, particularly in the contexts of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
She has led several research projects funded by the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), including “Science in Text and Culture in Latin America” (2014–2016) and “Art, Science, and Environmental Justice in Latin America” (2018–2020).
Honours
- Fellow of the British Academy (2025)
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2012)
Selected works
Monographs
- Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Duke University Press, 2009)[1]
- Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism (University of Calgary Press, 2014) open access version[2]
- Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse (University of Michigan Press, 2016) open access version [3]
- Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (co-authored with Ed King, UCL Press, 2017) open access version [4]
- Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art (UCL Press, 2021) open access version [5]
- Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (Open Book Publishers, 2023) open access version
Edited volumes
- Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America (with Miriam Haddu, Palgrave, 2009)
- Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (with María del Pilar Blanco, University Press of Florida, 2020)[6]
References
- ^ Copertari, Gabriela (2011). "Review of Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema". MLN. 126 (2): 431–433. doi:10.1353/mln.2011.0021. ISSN 0026-7910. JSTOR 23012665.
- ^ Bollig, Ben (2017). "Review of Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism". The Modern Language Review. 112 (2): 527–529. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.112.2.0527. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 10.5699/modelangrevi.112.2.0527.
- ^ Rodríguez, Larisa Maite Colón (2016). "Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse by Joanna Page". Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 20 (1): 286–289. doi:10.1353/hcs.2016.0053. ISSN 1934-9009.
- ^ Scholz, Victoria Lynne (2021-09-03). "Posthumanism and the graphic novel in Latin America". Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 12 (5): 1140–1141. doi:10.1080/21504857.2020.1815818. ISSN 2150-4857.
- ^ Bîrlădeanu, Rafaela (2022). "Book Review: Joanna Page – "Art and environmental change: beyond apocalypse", pp. 87-110 – taken from the book "Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art", London, University College London, 2021". Research and Education (6): 5–8. doi:10.56177/red.6.2022.art.8. ISSN 2559-2033.
- ^ Vianna Franco, Marco P. (2021-01-01). "Geopolitics, culture, and the scientific imaginary in Latin America: edited by María del Pilar Blanco and Joanna Page, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 2020, 352 pp., $95.00 (hardback), ISBN 13: 9781683401483". Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. 4 (1). doi:10.1080/25729861.2021.1919417. ISSN 2572-9861.