Rate My Professor Isolda Rojas-Lizana

Dr. Isolda Rojas-Lizana, professionally known as Sol Rojas-Lizana, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in African Literature from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Queensland, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Discourse Analysis from the University of Queensland in 2007. Her PhD thesis, "Letters to the Editor in the Local Press: Genre and Discourse in Everyday Texts from Australia and Chile," established her foundation in discourse studies. Previously serving as a Lecturer from 2012 to 2020, she now teaches language, literature, and cultural studies courses, guiding students in these disciplines.

Rojas-Lizana's academic interests encompass critical discourse analysis, trauma and memory studies, perceived discrimination, critical translation studies, and decolonial thought. She has produced over 50 publications, including authored books such as "The Discourse of Perceived Discrimination: Perspectives from Contemporary Australian Society" (Routledge, 2020) and "Discourse and Genre in Everyday Texts: Letters to the Editor in the Local Press of Australia and Chile" (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009); the co-authored graphic memoir "Historias Clandestinas" (LOM Ediciones, 2014; second edition 2023) with its English translation "Clandestine Stories" (Ends of the World Comics, 2023); and earlier co-authored field guides on Galápagos marine life, including "Guía de campo sobre estrellas de mar y otros equinodermos de Galápagos" (1998). She co-edited "Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and contributed chapters like "The Visitor’s Gaze in the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile." Recent journal articles appear in Memory Studies, such as "Memory, postmemory and gender in letters by women to executed and disappeared women during the 1973–1990 Chilean dictatorship" (2025) and "Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile" (2024), alongside works in Critical Discourse Studies on decolonial thought in Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions. Her research employs discourse analytical tools to explore victim perspectives on discrimination, memory sites, and colonial legacies, advancing interdisciplinary scholarship in these areas.