Assistant Professor of Portuguese Advisor of Sigma Pi Lambda: Society of Portuguese Learning Portuguese Flagship Pedagogical Coordinator Cris Lira holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia. She specializes in Contemporary Brazilian Literature. Her research focuses on contemporary Brazilian and Latin American literature and culture through interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. Her interests include women's writing, representations of women and violence, exile aesthetics, post-dictatorship literature, gender, and memory studies. Her articles have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Chasqui, Revista Mulheres e Literatura, among other journals. In 2022, she co-edited the bilingual poetry collection Raízes: Brazilian Women Poets in Translation (Portuguese/English), published by Venas Abiertas.Alongside her academic work, Cris Lira is a creative writer whose literary production reflects many of the themes that inform her scholarship. Her most recent poetry book, A casa eterna (2025), was published as part of Collection VI of Mulherio das Letras. In 2026, her bilingual project Escrevivências e [R]esistências: A poesia de autoras negras brasileiras, originally developed with students in the course PORT4060/6060: Poetry of the Portuguese-Speaking World, was published by Venas Abiertas. Her previous book, Fragmentos do interior (2021), is part of the third Mulherio das Letras collection of single-authored books published by Editora Venas Abiertas. In 2020, she published O mundo é esse lugar (The World is Such a Place) as part of the second Mulherio das Letras collection. Her earlier books, No país da infância (My Childhood Country) and Ponte para o poente (Bridge to the Sunset), were both published in 2019 as part of the first Mulherio das Letras collection, which was a finalist for the prestigious Jabuti Literary Prize in 2020. Some of her short stories and poems have also appeared in anthologies such as ¡Basta! 100+ Latinas Against Gender Violence (University of Nevada Press, 2017) and Mulherio pela paz (ABR, 2018). Research Research Areas: Brazilian & Lusophone Studies Latin American, Iberian & Latinx Studies Frequently Taught Courses Courses Regularly Taught: PORT 1001 PORT 1002 PORT 2001 PORT 1110 PORT 2120 PORT 2550 PORT 2600 PORT 4045/6045 PORT 4060/6060 PORT 4080/6080 PORT 8010 Selected Publications Selected Publications: Research Articles: Lira, Cristiane. "A personagem da guerrilheira em As meninas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles, e em Conversación al Sur, de Marta Traba." Revista Iberoamericana (2020): 543-560. Lira, Cristiane Barbosa. "A presença e o desvanecimento da figura paterna: o caso da narrativa de Milton Hatoum e Cristovão Tezza" Chasqui 48.1 (2019): 180-195. Edited Volumes: Rodrigues, Cecília Paixa Ximenes; Lira, Cristiane; Bezerra, Lígia. "Ocupando espaços: legitimação de escritoras brasileiras contemporâneas." Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (2023): e6901. Single-authored books: Co-editions: Download Raízes: Brazilian Women Poets in Translation here. Education Education: Ph.D in Romance Languages, University of Georgia M.A. in Romance Languages, University of Georgia.
