• Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo
  • Campus: NB
  • PhD or MA: PhD
  • School : SAS
  • Department: English
  • Dissertation Title: Maroon Entanglements: Women's and Femmes' Erotic Strategies in Caribbean Narrative
  • Abstract of Dissertation Work: My dissertation analyzes representations of self-emancipated slaves in contemporary Caribbean narrative as sites where queer sexuality is practiced despite and through compromised agency.
  • Bio: Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She completed a Master's degree in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program of Literatures in English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her dissertation explores how women and femmes in contemporary Caribbean literature practice marronage as an erotic strategy. She is a principal collaborator of the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital resource to understand Puerto Rico’s economic crisis and she is an editor for the Puerto Rico Review.
  • Publications: “Puerto Rico's Feminist & Queer Maroon Rebellions Have a Soundtrack: It's Plena.” Escribe, Mi Gente Journal, forthcoming January 2022.