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Isabelle Carbonell

Isabelle Carbonell

Assistant Professor

  • Department: Communication, Media and Culture

Professor ​Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American sci-fi documentary filmmaker, working as an assistant professor in film at Â̾ÞÈËÊÓƵÌýsince January 2022.ÌýHer research and practice lie at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene, while striving to develop new visual and sonic approaches and methods to rethink documentary filmmaking and create a multispecies cinema. Imbued in all her work is the connection between the slow violence of environmental disaster, climate change, bodies of water, more-than-humans, and the future.Ìý​​Carbonell'sÌýaward-winning films and installation works have been presented in museums, film festivals, and art galleries internationally. She has received support via a Mellon dissertation fellowship, the Princess Grace Foundation, HKW/Max Planck Institute research grant, Berkeley Human Rights fellowship, and Georgetown Environmental Initiative grant among others.Ìý



Education/Degrees

  • B.A. Environmental Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • B.A. Social Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • M.A. Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz


Expected 2022/2023:

  • Ph.D. Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications

  • ÌýA chapter inÌýInteractive Documentary: Decolonizing Practice-Based Research.ÌýRoutledge.ÌýEds Kathleen Marie Ryan and David Staton, 2022.
  • ÌýA chapter inÌýRoutledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate ChangeÌýby Eds T.J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, and Subhankar Banerjee, 2021.
  • Ìý​Carbonell, Isabelle, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Yen-Ling Tsai. 2021. "Attunements."ÌýFieldsights, September 14.Ìý
  • ÌýÌý| April 15th, 2021
  • ÌýHKW Anthropocene Curriculum, 2020
  • ÌýFeral Atlas, Stanford University Press eds. Anna Tsing | October 4, 2020
  • ÌýCorrespondences, Cultural Anthropology website | February 11, 2019.
  • ÌýConexión: Departamente de Comunicaciones de la PUCP Vol 9, 2018
  • ÌýCo-authored: Yen-Ling Tsai, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier, Anna Tsing Cultural Anthropology Journal Vol 31.4, November 2016
  • ÌýInternet Policy Review Journal on Internet Regulation Vol 5.1, April 2016.