Education
- M.A. in Lusophone Literatures and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (2017)
- B.A. in English Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain (2010)
Research
My dissertation project focuses on 20th and 21st Brazilian poetry, in particular on notions of marginal understandings of readership and authorship.
Publications
Published articles
- “Entre a perda e a queda poética: Desterro, de Camila Assad, ou como construir coletividade a partir de uma escrita por apropriação.” eLyra, Revista da Rede Internacional Lyracompoetics, 17 (2021): 239-256, https://elyra.org/index.php/elyra/article/view/393.
- “Quantos sacos de cimento há em ti? Cidades de concreto armado.” Virada. Literatura e crítica, 2 (2020), http://www.a-virada.com/isaac-gimenez.html.
- “Morbidez e indigenismo: La expedición de Antônio Callado al corazón de Brasil.” Tropos Journal, 40 (2017): 130-157. https://issuu.com/troposjournal/docs/tropos_no_40__spring_2017.
Book reviews and interviews
- “Anticorpo: A parody on the colonial ambition by Patrícia Lino. An audiovisual book review.” Mester, 49 (2020): 215-222. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r8468hd.
- “Rimas e não soluções: Toda entrevista é breve com a poeta Sônia Marques.” Mester 47 (2018): 141-150. https://escholarship.org/content/qt87g0b92r/qt87g0b92r.pdf?t=pv1fkn.
Peer-reviewed journals
- Editor-in-Chief of Mester 2020-2021, https://escholarship.org/uc/ucla_spanport_mester.
Presentations
- “Ativismo, gênero e ocupação na poesia de Dimitri Br”. 2020 California Brazilianist Conference. Center for Brazilian Studies. San Diego State University, February 2020.
- “A censura de todos: cinema marginal, política e moral nos anos de chumbo”. American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), 11th International Conference. October, 2018.
- “No es nación para mulatos: Tragedias amorosas interraciales en narrativas abolicionistas latinoamericanas”. 3rd Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies. University of Chicago, April 2018.
- “Enfermedad e Indigenismo: Ignorancia asimétrica en Quarup y A Expedição Montaigne”. Graduate Student Association Conference, Lansing, Michigan State University, November, 2016.
- Organizing committee of the 16th UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Conference: Taking It to the Street: Politics, Aesthetics and Representations of the Street. May, 2019.
- Organizing committee of the 13th UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Student Conference: Weapons of Social Justice: reinvention through Language, Literature and Culture. May, 2016.