Joanna Page (academic)

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Joanna Page
NationalityBritish
OccupationAcademic
EmployerUniversity of Cambridge
Known forLatin American studies, science and culture, CRASSH
TitleProfessor 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.

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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 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

Selected works

Monographs

Edited volumes

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
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