Isabel Josefina Piniella Grillet
Isabel Piniella is a PhD candidate at the Institute of History in the University of Bern and member of the Global Studies Program at the Walter Benjamin College. Her research project addresses the participation of Venezuelan actors bounded to the cultural left in cultural journals and art practices in both local and transnational networks in the sixties. The term cultural left refers to those intellectuals who were politically engaged during the decade. It is specifically to be studied the production of the members of the Venezuelan neo-vanguard groups Sardio, El Techo de la Ballena and Tabla Redonda. Piniella studied Humanities with major in Contemporary History and Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University and she holds a Master degree in Contemporary Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In her master thesis she addressed the work of a Venezuelan writer from a decolonial aesthetic perspective by analyzing popular language elements. Since 2016 she is member of the Graduate School of Humanities of the University of Bern and the Swiss School of Latin America Studies. She is currently editor of the journal Forma Humanitats and grantee of the Dr. Joséphine de Karman Foundation.
Title of PhD Project
Marginal Turn: The Rise and Fall of Intellectuals' Political Commitment in the Cultural Production between 1958 and 1971 in Venezuela
Giro marginal: Auge y caída del compromiso político de los intelectuales en la producción cultural entre 1958 y 1971 en Venezuela
Research Foci
Intellectual History | Political Aesthetics | Latin American Contemporary History | Latin American Literature | Art History
