Rebecca Jarman

She is a François Chevalier fellow at MIAS.

I am a Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds and have worked in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and the UK. In 2021, I was awarded an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship for a project called Moving Mountains that documents the long-term legacies of geological disasters at sites across the Americas and Europe. This interdisciplinary collaboration explore show these planetary forces give shape to life-systems, cosmologies, political economies, and social structures. We champion participatory engagement, creative methodologies, practise-led research, and strong community relationships. This project followed on from my doctoral research on urban poverty in Venezuela undertaken at the University of Cambridge. I am author of Representing the Barrios (University of Pittsburgh Press., 2023). I have published widely in major international journals including Textual Practice, Modern Language Review and Bulletin of Latin American Research. I have also appeared on mainstream media platforms including BBC 5 Live, ABC News, BBC World Service, BBC History Magazine, and TRT World.