Joanna Page (academic)
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Joanna Page | |
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| 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.
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.[1]
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)
