Isabel Seguí
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
Contact details
- Email: isabel.segui@ed.ac.uk
Background
Isabel Seguí received a PhD in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews in 2019 with a thesis focused on the politics and practices of Andean women oppositional filmmakers. In 2020, she was granted a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to develop the project ‘Women’s Nonfiction Filmmaking in Peru (1970-2020)’ at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (University of Edinburgh). Her work, in English and Spanish, has been published in journals and edited collections and awarded by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
Research summary
- Collaborative cinematic processes (focus on women and below-the-line labour)
- Bolivian and Peruvian cinema
- Alternative practices in film distribution and exhibition
- Material and emotional historiography
- Counter-public spheres
Project activity
Women’s Nonfiction Filmmaking in Peru (1970-2020) Peruvian women documentary filmmakers have produced a corpus of work that despite its artistic and social impact has hovered under the historiographic radar. Over the course of the 20thcentury, they entwined individual and collective traumas, giving voice to the country's disenfranchised populations. Currently, women are fostering a thriving nonfiction audiovisual scene with transmedia characteristics and global linkages. All these contributions are yet to be properly historicised. By applying feminist and decolonising frameworks and methodologies, the interconnected outputs of this research programme (scholarly publication, archive digitalisation, public engagement) seek to foreground women’s work and resignify Peruvian —and Latin American— film history.
Current project grants
2020-2023. Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Project: Women’s Nonfiction Filmmaking in Peru (1970-2020)
2020-2021. Isabel is part of the research team of the project ‘ColectiVIS-ARTS-Recherches sur la praxis artistique (arts visuels) des femmes dans les collectifs d’artistes, mixtes et non mixtes,’ led by Dr Sonia Kerfa (Université Grenoble Alpes) and funded by the French National Research Agency in the framework of the “Investissements d’avenir” program (ANR-15-IDEX-02).
Past project grants
2018-2019. Scottish Universities Research Collections Associate Scheme Grant (SGSAH) to develop the public engagement project ‘The Grierson Women’ in collaboration with the Grierson Collection at the University of Stirling.
Output: https://thegriersonwomen.wordpress.com
2014-2017. University of St Andrews and Santander 600 Doctoral Scholarship.
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Beatriz Palacios: Ukamau’s Cornerstone (1974–2003)
(16 pages)
In:
Latin American Perspectives, vol. 48, pp. 77-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20988693
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
El cine según las amas de casa mineras: Agenda subalterna, performance y comunicación política (Bolivia, 1971-1994)
(18 pages)
In:
Estudios del ISHIR, vol. 10
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Las Mujeres del Grupo Ukamau: Dentro y fuera de la pantalla
In:
Secuencias. Revista de historia del cine, pp. 33-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15366/secuencias2019.49-50.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Peruvian Kuntur Group: A Marxist-Indigenist filmmaking practice
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Bursting Lima’s film bubble: Women in the contemporary nonfiction filmic scene in Peru
(20 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52512-5_17
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Auteurism, Machismo-Leninismo, and other issues: Women’s labor in Andean Oppositional Film Production
In:
Feminist Media Histories, vol. 4, pp. 11-36
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The embodied testimony of Domitila Chungara in The Courage of the People (Jorge Sanjinés, 1971)
In:
Interlitteraria, vol. 22, pp. 180-193
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cine-Testimonio: Saturnino Huillca, estrella del documental revolucionario peruano
In:
Cine Documental, vol. 13, pp. 54-87
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
El Empoderamiento de los Personajes Femeninos en el Cine del Grupo Ukamau (1965-1971)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Jorge Sanjinés: Actualización Biofilmográfica
(15 pages)
In:
Archivos de la Filmoteca, pp. 39-54
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
In the press
2020. Dissemination special issue Secuencias ‘Ukamau Abigarrado’:
- Radio program LAS MUJERES DEL GRUPO UKAMAU - Isabel Seguí > Radio Deseo 103.3 fm. La Paz, Bolivia.
http://radiodeseo.com/las-mujeres-del-grupo-ukamau-isabel-segui/
- Radio program ‘La mirada incendiaria’ by ImagenDocs
https://archive.org/details/20200807-la-mirada-incendiaria
- Radio program ‘Los 400 Segundos’ by Canal Ramona Cultural
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NnyhD4ESA
2018. Interview by Shelley Stamp. Feminist Media Histories Podcast