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Ivo Antonio de Matos Cruz

Ivo has experience in Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics, and Literature. Born and raised in the Brazilian Amazon, he is interested in Indigenous Literature and Folklore and the representation of shamanism in Brazilian Literature. Ivo has also taught Portuguese as a  Fulbright FLTA at Yale university (2019 - 2020).


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Elisa Braga

Elisa Braga has a B.A. and a Teaching Licensure in English from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Brazil. They are currently a Master's Student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian literature. Their research interests include coming of age literature, Young Adult literature, gender and sexuality studies, and literature by Latino writers and immigrants. They wish to explore the ways in which identity is shaped,…


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 Isabel dos Santos Vieira

Olá! I was born in Roraima, Brazil, and I am a fourth year PhD candidate in the Portuguese program, with a Spanish minor. During my MA in Rio de Janeiro, I researched contemporary Brazilian literature and graphic novel adaptations, and the representation of indigenous identities. Back in Brazil, I was a Middle and High School teacher of Portuguese language and literature. At UGA, I am a Portuguese and Spanish Teaching Assistant, Portuguese tutor…


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 Universidade Federal de…


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

Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues is Associate Professor of Portuguese. She holds a Ph.D. in Lusophone Literatures from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Rodrigues specializes in Contemporary Brazilian Literature. Her research interests include prose fiction of the 21st century, narratives of displacement, and the construction of Brazilian national identities. She is initiating research that encompasses all Portuguese-speaking countries…


Daniel Ferreira da Silva

Masters in Romance Language Literature - Portuguese and Spanish - from the University of Georgia. I graduated from the Federal University of Ceará with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature. My current research interest involves dialectal translation of Cordels  (Brazilian Folk-Poetry) written in Brazilian northeastern Portuguese into American Southern English. I was the recipient of the 2018 LACSI Graduate Field Research Award…
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