Isabel Bradley,

I am currently a 3^rd year PhD student in Romance Studies. My research at Duke centers on Caribbean epistemologies and cultural production and their emergence in ecologies such as subsistence plots, plantation monocultures, and oceans. I am interested in how situated ecological knowledge and its ties to Afro- and indigenous cosmologies can generate lines of flight and futures beyond the west’s present (mono)humanist episteme. I am drawn to the intersections of critical cartography, material culture, critical race theory, embodied knowledges, the environment/beyond-human, digital humanities, and decolonial praxes.

I aim to work within a plurality of archives that embody "ecologies of knowledge," contesting prestige hierarchies that prioritize imperial methods and meanings at the expense of local/indigenous ways of knowing. I am currently studying advanced Haitian Kreyòl, supported by a FLAS fellowship.

I have a BA in Anthropology from Indiana University. At Duke, I have taught French 101, 102, and 203.

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