Isabella Maganda Garcia Bernstein
Isabella Maganda Garcia Bernstein is a proud Filipina American doctoral student at Yale University (Department of Spanish & Portuguese). They received their B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Archaeological Anthropology and Hispanic Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Their research interests include Philippine colonial literature, Hispanic Asia, sociolinguistics, object biographies, environmental personhood, artifact ethics, and archaeological politics. They currently focus on the gendered and orientalized portrayal of the Philippines across urban contexts of Manila, Hong Kong, Madrid, and Barcelona in 19th and 20th century hispanofilipino literature and print culture. Isabella openly embraces interdisciplinary studies and is passionate about fostering educational empowerment and multicultural literacy to combat censorship and historical revisionism in the Philippines and the United States.
The PPL Project is kindly sponsored by:
Paglaban Pilipino Literature Project 