Lisa Blackmore
Director, Digital Humanities Center; and, Professor, Department of Spanish
Education
- PhD Latin American Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
- MA Latin American Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
- MA (Cantab) Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
Research
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar and curator with a background in modern languages, Latin American cultural studies and environmental humanities, and a passionate commitment to collaborative projects and public engagement.
My research centers on territorial transformations and cultural production in relation to long histories of colonialism, modernization, and industrialization in Spanish-speaking and Lusophone contexts. In my doctoral and postcdoctoral work, I delved into official and clandestine archives in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic to unearth how mid-twentieth century dictatorships leveraged modernist architecture and large-scale infrastructures as spectacles of progress designed to shore up authoritarian power.