Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California Berkeley, where she is a Professor in the departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media, with appointments in Gender & Women's Studies and Critical Theory. She specializes in modern and contemporary visual culture, art, film, media and literature from Latin America, with a particular focus on experimental practices that bridge aesthetics and politics. She is the author of Fotografia e Imperio. Paisagens para um Brasil moderno (2012), Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (2014) and The Matter of Photography in the Americas (2018) among others. She is the PI and Projects Director for the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and Leticia Sabsay she co-edits Critical South at Polity Books. She is currently completing a book on the refusal of Time.  In 2021, Prof Brizuela was appointed as a Research Associate with the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg.