Dr. Isabel Pérez-Ramos in Residence September 2024

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Isabel Pérez-Ramos will be in-residence September 2024 with the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program.

While in-residence in Indianapolis, Dr. Peréz-Ramos will work on her latest project, “Counter-narratives of the Wasteocene.”

The project centers on the ways in which decolonial solidarities are mobilized through narrative strategies in speculative fiction by Chicanx authors to challenge socioenvironmental injustices. 

About Dr. Isabel Pérez-Ramos

Isabel Pérez-Ramos (she/her/hers) is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Oviedo in Spain. She is a member of the multidisciplinary research groups Intersections at the University of Oviedo, and Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica at the Franklin Institute at the University of Alcalá. 

Isabel’s research focuses on narrative representations of environmental injustices, mostly in Chicanx and US Southwestern literature, as well as in cli-fi and speculative fiction.  

She is co-editor of Toward an Eco-Social Transition: Transatlantic Environmental Humanities (UAH, 2021). Her research has been published in journals including International Journal of English Studies IJES, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, and Environmental Humanities, as well as in numerous book chapters.   

She is Book Review Editor of Ecozon@ and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment.