Isabel Sobral Campos
Associate Teaching Professor in English
Isabel Sobral Campos’ current research examines the intersection of poetry, visual culture, and ecocriticism. In particular, she is interested in how poems listen to the environment and how images in poems become imprints, tracks that lead readers to what was experienced, listened to, testifying to what remains. As a poet, she is fascinated by the obliqueness of the autobiographical, which translates into how we exist in and for others. As a teacher,she is committed to fostering community literacy in its many forms, and to bringing writing, reading, and literature to uncanny places. She is the co-founder of the Sputnik & Fizzle book series, a venture that aims to publish lectures from artists and scholars on issues related to art practice. Sobral Campos has recently begun her first translation project—a book by the Portuguese experimental writer and visual artist, Salette Tavares.
Academic Publications:
— Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays, edited by Isabel Sobral Campos. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.
— “Emily Dickinson’s Pressed Flowers as Poems or Poems as Floral Still Lifes.” Textual Cultures Texts, Context, Interpretation. Forthcoming.
— “The Ecology of Kandinsky’s Abstraction: A Trembling World of Beings and Things.” Symplokē, vol. 26, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 237-250.
— “Nature’s Deterioration: Pascal’s Experiments with the Vacuum Revisited.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, pp. 238–256.
— “The Haunted House of Nature—Immanence’s Infinity.” The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol 25, no.1, 2016, pp. 57-82.
— “Futureless Invention: Frampton’s Finite-Infinite Film.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 33, no. 3, 2016, pp. 1-21.
— “Grimonprez’s Chimera.” Evental Aesthetics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2012, pp. 81-87.
— “Introduction: Trans-National Ecopoetics.” Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays, edited by Isabel Sobral Campos. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, pp. ix-xvii.
— “The Ecology of Metaphor: Will Alexander’s Exobiology as Goddess.” Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays, edited by Isabel Sobral Campos. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, pp. 225-252.
Poetry:
— How to Make Words of Rubble. Blue Figure Press, 2020.
–Your Person Doesn’t Belong to You. Milwaukee: Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2018.
–Autobiographical Ecology. Ottawa, Canada: Above/Ground Press, 2019.
–You Will Be Made of Stone. Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2018.
–Material. New York: No Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2015.
— “If selves are thoughts.” in BAX2018: Best American Experimental Writing. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018.
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Education
PhD in Comparative Literature, The City University of New York
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Contact
617-373-2771 i.sobralcampos@northeastern.edu iscampos.com -
Address
417 Holmes Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 -
Office Hours
489 Holmes Hall (Huskiana Press or Zoom)
Tuesdays and Fridays
8:30-9:30am
Fridays, 12:15-1:15pm -
Associations
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Offers writing instruction for students in the College of Engineering and the College of Computer and Information Science. Students practice and reflect on writing in professional, public, and academic genres—such as technical reports, progress reports, proposals, instructions, presentations, and technical reviews—relevant to technical professions and individual student goals. In a workshop setting, offers students an opportunity to evaluate a wide variety of sources and develop expertise in audience analysis, critical research, peer review, and revision.
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Creative Writing
ENGL 2700
Gives the developing writer an opportunity to practice writing various forms of both poetry and prose. Features in-class discussion of student work.
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Global Literature to 1500
ENGL 1700
Introduces students to the ancient and classical literatures of Greece, Rome, and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as other premodern literatures in translation.
First-Year Writing
ENGW 1111
Designed for students to study and practice writing in a workshop setting. Students read a range of texts in order to describe and evaluate the choices writers make and apply that knowledge to their own writing and explore how writing functions in a range of academic, professional, and public contexts. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to conduct research using primary and secondary sources; how to write for various purposes and audiences in multiple genres and media; and how to give and receive feedback, to revise their work, and to reflect on their growth as writers.
