Lisa Blackmore is senior lecturer in art history and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Essex. She is the founder-director of entre—ríos, a confluence of arts research, curatorial, editorial, and pedagogical projects that explores continuities between bodies of water, human bodies, and territories, recognizing rivers as active subjects that produce aesthetic forms, transform landscapes and shape memory. In 2023, Lisa was a British Academy Mid-Career for her project “Imagining the Hydrocommons: Water, Art and Infrastructure in Latin America.” She has published Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and co-edited Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Cultures of Care in the Americas (LA ESCUELA_, 2024), Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Arts (Routledge, 2020), and Natura: Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape (diaphanes, 2018) among other books. Lisa received her MA Latin American Cultural Studies and PhD Spanish from Birkbeck College.