About
Isabella's research and teaching specializes in contemporary Latin(x) American literature, visual arts, experimental poetry, and feminist and queer studies. She explores how gender, memory, and materiality intersect across hemispheric contexts, with special attention to literary, visual, and sonic practices. Her first book project, Poetic Traces: Latin(x) American Objects, Archives, Dust, theorizes an undisciplined approach to memory and form. The book challenges dominant frameworks in memory studies by foregrounding a poetics of fragility, ephemerality, and precariousness. Drawing on experimental poetry, performance, photography, and sound, it argues that minor, unstable, and residual materials—understood as intermaterial forms—can reconfigure how we sense time and history beyond archival completeness or monumental narratives.
She recently published the article “tatiana de la tierra y las formas del deseo” in the special issue Borderlands 2.0 of LASA Forum. She is currently co-editing two special issues: Silence as Expression (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies) and Fracturar la forma: Collage y la imaginación de lo político (Latin American Research Review).
