Camila Wise Robles

Camila Wise Robles (she/her) is a second-year Ph.D. student from Southern California. Her research interests include ethnic literature and contemporary poetics, with a focus on borderlands and national boundaries, hybrid and non-standard languages, and Latinx and Chicanx writing. At the University of Oxford, she completed an MSt in English and American Studies on the subject of queer, feminist Black and Chicana autobiographics, where she mapped a genealogy from Audre Lorde's Zami to Cherrie Moraga's Native Country of the Heart. She is a Russel G. Hamilton Scholar, a Provost Graduate Fellow, and a 2021 Fulbright Colombia Scholar.