Rebecca Jarman
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

Rebecca is a Teaching Fellow in Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds (UK). She researches culture and politics in contemporary Latin America, particularly the themes of urbanization and poverty as they are mediated in film and literature. Her doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Cambridge, explored representations of the slums in Venezuelan culture (1958 onwards), to establish the links between populism, the oil industry and urban marginality in twentieth-century Venezuela. Developing from this is a project that interrogates recent representations of environmental catastrophes, especially in the urban spaces of Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil and Hispaniola. She is also interested in literary and journalistic translation, and representations of Latin America in anglophone media.