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Cris and Cecilia
Brazilian Women Poets in Translation

Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues and Cris Lira have edited a bilingual collection in Portuguese and English of Brazilian women's poetry. Raízes: Brazilian Women Poets in Translation, published by Venas Abiertas, brings together poems by forty-seven Brazilian writers of different identities and reveals the power of a new literature built from plural experiences and perspectives. The book was conceived and edited by Rodrigues and…
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Michel Soares do Carmo

PhD Student and Teaching Assistant of Portuguese/Spanish at University of Georgia, Michel Soares do Carmo holds a M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Portuguese, both from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). He has extensive experience in teaching through different levels (middle and high school; university; adult education) and ages (from 12 to 71). Right before starting his PhD Studies, he was a…


Talita Lara Carvalho Nassur


Elisa Braga

Elisa Braga has a B.A. and a Teaching Licensure in English from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil, as well as a M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia, with a focus on comparing the literature of the Americas. They are currently a PhD Student at the University of Georgia. Their research interests include coming of age literature and the Bildungsroman, comparative humanities, gender and sexuality studies,…


Cris Lira

Cris Lira holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia. She specializes in Contemporary Brazilian Literature. Her research interests are mostly related to contemporary Brazilian and Latin American literature and culture with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. She is interested in women's writing, the connection between representations of female characters and violence, exile aesthetics, and post…


Laura Vieira

Olá! I was born in Roraima, Brazil, and I am a sixth year PhD candidate in Romance Languages, studying the construction and representation of Latin American identities in contemporary comic books and graphic novels. During my Master's at Universidade Federal Flumimense (Niteói - RJ), I researched contemporary Brazilian literature and graphic novel adaptations, and the representation of indigenous identities in the Amazon. I have over 10 years of…


Luiz Roberto Farias

Luiz Roberto Farias is a Ph.D. student at The University of Georgia. He researches Brazilian cinema and literature from the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Farias has written the preface to Hermilo Borba Filho's novel, Agá, 2019, and has taken part in the documentary by acclaimed Brazilian director Hilton Lacerda, A Prática da Anarquia: Uma leitura de Sobrados e Mocambos. Farias has an M.A in Theory of Literature at the…


Robert Moser

Dr. Robert Moser is an associate professor of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African Literature and Culture at the University of Georgia. He is also the director of the newly established Portuguese Flagship Program. His published articles and reviews have appeared in various journals and volumes. Much of his work has focused on the figure of the dead and the expressions of haunting and mourning in Luso-Brazilian literature. Recent research…


Lesley Feracho

Dr. Lesley Feracho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and the Institute of African-American Studies. Dr. Feracho specializes in contemporary Latin American narrative and in particular women's narrative of the Caribbean, as well as Afro-Latin American narrative and poetry. Her current research involves cross-cultural literary texts (in both narrative and poetry) of women writers of African descent from the Americas (…


Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues

I am Associate Professor of Portuguese and Curriculum Coordinator of the federally-funded Portuguese Flagship Program. I hold a Ph.D. in Lusophone Literatures from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I specialize in Contemporary Brazilian Culture and Literature. My research interests include prose fiction of the 21st century, women’s writing, ecofeminism, Indigenous literature, narratives of displacement, and the construction of Brazilian…
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