Isabel Castelao Gómez

Her work has focused on female authors’ contributions to avant-garde movements, and the way poetic experimentation can join the expression of  women's experiences, and on a wider lens, the multiple relations between gender  and writing. She has published and translated into Spanish the avant-garde writer Mina Loy. In recent years, she has been studying women writers of the Beat generation movement, and has published and translated for the first time in any language the Beat poet Elise Cowen.

The book Female Beatness: mujeres, género y poesía en la Generación Beat, co-authored with Natalia Carbajosa, has widely introduced these writers to Spanish-speaking readers. It has received the Best Research Monograph Award Javier Coy given by the Spanish Association of American Studies.

She is a member and assistant editor of EBSN (European Beat Studies Network) and her current research interests focus on Affect Studies, New Materialisms (Corporeal Feminism), Maternity Studies and Health Humanities.

CONFERENCES (among others):

• Isabel Castelao Gómez coordinated the pannel "Mothers of the American Dream: Re-creations of Motherhood and Intersectional Maternities in American Literature" in the 17th SAAS Conference where several members of this project also contributed with their intersectional proposals focused on mothering practices. 

PUBLICATIONS (among others): 

• Gómez, Isabel Castelao. "Madre ausente, madre errante (o cómo ser madres-poetas): maternidad, creatividad y poesía en Mina Loy y Diane di Prima." Malas. UNED-Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2014.