Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Joyce Fernandes

Research Interests African Literature in Portuguese; Literary Translation; Brazilian Contemporary Literature; Postmemory; Decolonial Studies; Women's Literature; Gender Studies; Trauma Studies; Second Language Pedagogies; Inclusive and Queer Pedagogies

Biography

Joyce is originally from Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where she pursued her undergraduate studies in Languages and Literature. She has a Masters in Literature and a graduate certificate in English language and literature. She has background in teaching foreign languages and literature across diverse cultural landscapes such as Brazil, Israel, and Brown University. Her research focuses on literary translation, with a particular emphasis on African and Diasporic literatures in Portuguese.

Publications

Book Chapter co-authored with Yasmin Zandomenico, "Teaching nonbinary Portuguese: strategies and inclusiveness in the classroom," in Inclusiveness Beyond the (Non)binary in Romance Languages (2024).

"Book Review of Inggs, Judith and Wehrmeyer, Ella. African Perspectives on Literary Translation. Routledge, 2021." Entheoria: Cadernos De Letras E Humanas, v. 10, n.1, pp. 252–255. https://www.journals.ufrpe.br/index.php/entheoria/article/view/5382.

"O legado traumático da escravidão em Torto Arado." Revista Entrelaces Fortaleza, v. 11, n. 23, pp. 229-248, 2021. https://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/58674

Teaching

POBS 0105 - Accelerated Portuguese

POBS 0400 - Writing and Speaking Portuguese