I am interested in being part of GIECO because I consider the environment to be a crucial aspect of both my life and my research. We are immersed in an environmental crisis that affects both our practices and our values, and GIECO provides a platform to analyze this situation through research and academic practice.

Mª Isabel Pérez-Ramos earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in English Philology from the University of León, and holds a doctoral degree from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology (Environmental Humanities Laboratory), Sweden. Currently, she is a Ramón y Cajal research fellow in English Studies in the Department of English, French and German Philology, at the University of Oviedo (previously, she had been awarded the Juan de la Cierva Formación and Incorporación research fellowships). Her research interests include narrative representations of environmental injustices, mainly in Chicana/o and US Southwestern literature and culture, as well as climate and dystopian fiction. She has conducted research stays at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University de Edinburgh, Arizona State University, the University of Cape Town, the University of California, Berkeley, King’s College London, and the University of New Mexico; and was affiliated as a researcher with The Seedbox: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaborative (Linköping University). She is part of the research project "World Travelling: Narratives of Solidarity and Coalition in Contemporary Writing and Performance" (SOLIDARITIES, funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ and FEDER Una manera de hacer Europa), attached to the University of Oviedo. Her work has been presented at numerous international conferences and published in academic journals such as MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States; International Journal of English Studies; Environmental Humanities; Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities; and Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. She has also co-edited the bilingual volume Transatlantic Environmental Humanities/Humanidades Ambientales desde una Perspectiva Transatlántica (UAH 2021). Apart from GIECO, she is a member of the multidisciplinary research group Intersections: Contemporary Literatures, Cultures and Theories (University of Oviedo). She serves on the advisory board of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) and is book review editor of the journal Ecozon@.

Web: https://portalinvestigacion.uniovi.es/investigadores/219245/detalle

Lines of research: environmental justice, Chicana/o literature, southwestern United States, cli-fi, ecocriticism, environmental humanities.