Research Bio

Natalia Brizuela is a scholar of Latin American literature, visual culture, theories from the Global South, and Indigenous ontologies. Her work bridges the humanities and cultural studies to interrogate how aesthetic forms engage with histories of state and colonial violence.

Brizuela is also a curator and a book editor. 

An expert in visual studies and Latin American cultural production, Brizuela is a professor in the Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as Director of the Arts Research Center and Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies. Her publications have received international acclaim, and she has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Teiger Foundation among others.

Research Expertise and Interest

Spanish, Portuguese, photography, literature and the visual arts, cinema, indigenous ontologies