Dr. Michela Coletta

Biography

Michela Coletta is an Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick. She obtained her PhD in Latin American History from University College London and previously taught at King's College London, University College London, and the University of Bristol. Michela held a Marie Curie Early Career Fellowship at Universidad 'Pablo de Olavide' in Seville, Spain, and has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Latin American Caribbean Studies at the University of London. Her research focuses on the intersections of cultural history, environmental humanities, and transnational studies. She has produced significant works on nation-building in the Southern Cone and Latin American decolonial thought, with a particular interest in indigenous environmental politics and eco-social knowledge in Bolivia. Her monograph 'Decadent Modernity: Civilisation Latinidad in Spanish America, 1880-1920' was published by LUP in 2018, and she has co-edited works such as 'Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America'. Coletta is currently the recipient of an EU Horizon 2020 individual grant to explore cultural environmental history and Andean Amazonian epistemologies.

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