Presentations / Events
Selected Guest Lectures
2019 | “Poesia marginal no Brasil. Contexto e crítica.” Port 290: UCLA. Nov 24.
2019 | “Pierre Mennard and the challenges of literary translation / Transcriação and googleagem in contemporary Brazilian poetry”. Lit 156: Translation, or the Foreignness of Language. Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA. April 1.
Academic Presentations
2023 | Promoting Cultural Competence and Diversity through Comprehension Activities in Elementary Portuguese. EPIC–Lang Conference. UC Los Angeles, CA. April 29.
2023 | “Qué pena [antropofágica]!’ Do corpo autoral apropriado à corporalização da escrita”. Encuadres Graduate Student Conference. University of Pennsylvania, PA. February 25
2022 | “A poetic of errors in Oswald de Andrade’s ouvre”. Session: The Week of Modern Art 100 Years Later. Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. January 9.
2021 | “Alguém aí quer comprar a minha crise? Poesia marginal e crítica”. XX Hispanic & Lusophone Conference at UC Santa Barbara, CA. May 14.
2020 | “Entre o desterro e o desmadre: impressões transpandémicas e poesia assistida por google maps”. Letras Expandidas. XVIII Jornadas Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade da PUC-Rio. Online. October 22.
2020 | “Ativismo, gênero e ocupação na poesia de Dimitri Br”. California Brazilianist Conference. San Diego State University, CA. February 7.
2018 | “A censura de todos: cinema marginal, política e moral nos anos de chumbo”. 11th International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Ann Arbor, MI. October 20.
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, IL. April 21.
2016 | “Enfermedad e indigenismo: ignorancia asimétrica en Quarup y A Expedição Montaigne”. Graduate Student Association Conference, Lansing, MI. October 21.
Conferences Organized
2019 | 16th Annual SPGSA Conference: Taking it to the Street: Politics, Aesthetics, and Representations of the Street, UCLA, April 30.
2016 | 13th Annual SPGSA Conference: Weapons of social justice: Reinvention through language, literature and culture, UCLA, April 21.
Panel discussions organized
2022 | “Ema de Pablo Larraín: baile, rabia y empoderamiento”. A panel discussion with the actress Mariana di Girólamo and the script writer Guillermo Calderón. UCLA, March 4.
2021 | “Perro bomba: the Haitian inmigration in Chile”. A panel discussion with the actor Alfredo Castro and immigration scholar Deisy del Real. UCLA, February 11.
Public Humanities
2022 | Executive director of the 9th UCLA Latin American & Iberian Film Festival.
2021 | Executive director of the 8th UCLA Latin American & Iberian Film Festival.
2018 | Project coordinator of the UCLA Arts Initiative Build Bridges, Paint Walls.