Isabel Castelao Gómez

Isabel Castelao-Gómez is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at UNED. Her research focuses on Anglo-American women poets and feminist literary criticism. She is co-author of Female Beatness: mujeres, género y poesía en la Generación Beat (Universidad de Valencia, 2019), awarded with the Best Research Book Award of the Spanish Association of American Studies in 2021. She has translated and studied the experimental modernist poet Mina Loy (Breve Baedeker Lunar. 2ª ed., Torremozas, 2021) and has published the critical translation of Beat poet, Elise Cowen, Dejadme salir, dejadme entrar. Let me out, let me in (Torremozas, 2023). Before UNED, she worked at Purdue University, US, UCM and UAM. She has researched at University of California, Berkeley, University of Kent, UK, and the Vartan Gregorian Center for the Humanities at NYPL, New York. She is a member of EBSN (European Beat Studies Network).

She won the prize for unpublished young poets “Voces Nuevas” in 2004, and is the author of two books of poetry, Cartas desde Tebas (Torremozas, 2010), Abril (and the cruellest months) (Ya lo Dijo Casimiro Parker, 2022), and the chapbook Antípodas (Las hojas del Baobab, 2023). She is included in the anthology Hey, Jack. La huella Beat en la literatura española (Garvm Ed. 2022). 

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. She also contributed with the paper "The Bohemian American Dream of Motherhood: The Heroic Matricentric Narrative in Diane di Prima’s Recollections of my Life as a Woman."

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.