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Laura Isabel dos Santos Vieira

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PhD Candidate
Teaching Assistant of Portuguese and Spanish
M.A.

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 at the Flagship program and I was president of the Brazilian Student Association (BSA) for the academic year of 2019-2020. My research is about the expression of identities in Latin America through comic books and graphic novels from that region. My current interests include, but are not limited to, Latin American women's literature and comics, fictional narratives of migration, representation of marginalized identities, independent and online publications.

Courses taught: PORT 1110, PORT 2120, PORT1002, PORT 2001, SPAN1001, SPAN1002e

Research Interests:

Contemporary Brazilian and Latin American literature; comics and graphic narratives; women's literature and comics; narratives of displacement; (re)construction of national identities (with especial focus on Amazonian marginalized discourses); intersemiotic translation; cultural literacy and literature teaching.

Selected Publications:

Book review: Smiling in the Darkness, by Adelaide Freitas (Tagus Press, 2020). The Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol 7, no 1 (2022) (link).

Conference presentation: 23rd Annual Conference on the Americas, University of North Georgia. Angola Janga: a graphic retelling of Brazilian quilombos (2020).

Book chapter: "A ilustração como alternativa para o problema da incomunicabilidade na experiência do imigrante". [Illustration as an alternative to the problem of incomunication in the immigrant experience]. Histórias em quadrinhos em diálogo. Eds. S. Silva, G. de Menezes. Brazil: Editora Bordô-Grená, 2019, 15-24. Web. (link)

Paper: "Experiência de leitura e escrita literária no ensino médio" [An experience of reading and writing literature in high school]. Brazil: Revista Querubim (2016), v. 2. Web (link).

Education:

2024 (estimated) - Ph.D., University of Georgia: Romance Languages, Brazilian Studies, Spanish minor

2019 - M.A., Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil: Literary Studies, Brazilian literature and Literary theories. Dissertation title: A falácia que persiste: a busca por identidade e futuro no romance e na HQ Dois irmãos.

2016 - B.A., Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil: Portuguese and Lusophone Literatures, Teaching degree

2015 – 2016 Institutional Scholarship Program of Teaching Initiation (PIBID/CAPES - UFF). Project title: Experiência de leitura e escrita no Ensino Médio: crônica e conto.

Major Professor

Professor of French

Committee Members

Associate Professor of Spanish
Associate Professor of Portuguese

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