Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

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Renata Villon

renata_villon@brown.edu
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Research Interests Animal Studies; Gender Studies; Female Authorship; Literary translation; Biopolitics; Ecocriticism; Brazilian Literature and Culture; Animal Representations in Modern Literature; Latin-American Identities; Environmental Crisis in Literature

Biography

Biography

Renata Villon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. She earned a B.A. in Portuguese and French languages and literatures from the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and later obtained an M.A. in Literary Theory from the same institution. Her research interests revolve around the non-human and its depictions in literature, especially in the light of ecocriticism, as well as the close relationship between women and animals in modern and contemporary texts of female authorship. Currently, she aims to analyze how our view on the subject of "inhumanity" has been applied in the social contexts and literary works of the Luso-Brazilian and Latin-American worlds.

Education

M.A. in Literary Theory (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, 2023); B.A. in Portuguese and French (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, 2021)

Publications

“‘Meu rosto é o animal’: identidade e palavra diante do indizível em Vista Chinesa”. Revista Entre Parênteses, v. 12, n. 2, p. 1–18. Available at: https://publicacoes.unifal-mg.edu.br/revistas/index.php/entreparenteses/article/view/1859

“A vida se ergue mesmo nas ruínas: os jardins do inumano como paisagem essencial”. E-cadernos, Center for Social Studies in University of Coimbra, n. 38, 2023. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/eces.7785  

“Palavras apesar de tudo: uma leitura do dizer animalesco de Vista Chinesa”. Revista Metamorfoses, UFRJ, v. 19, 2023. Available at: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/metamorfoses/article/view/55294  

“Atrás do pensamento: a escrita sem logos de Objeto gritante e Água viva, de Clarice Lispector”. Revista Discursividades, v. 11, 2022. Available at: https://revista.uepb.edu.br/REDISC/article/view/1012

“‘Cegos que, vendo, não veem’: a animalização do outro em Ensaio sobre a cegueira”. Caderno CESPUC de pesquisa, v.40, p. 142-155, 2022. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2358-3231.2022n40p142-155

“O que há de poesia no animal: uma análise da ‘prosa em prosa’ de Jean-Marie Gleize”. ELYRA, v. 19, p. 13-26, 2022. Available at: https://www.elyra.org/index.php/elyra/article/view/432

“O cão na escrita: a modernidade poética e o escrever animalesco de Liliane Giraudon”. In: Marcelo Jacques de Moraes (Org.). Entre gêneros, entre línguas. LAPOFRAN / Núcleo de Edição do PACC, 2023. Available at: https://www.lapofran.com.br/m%C3%ADdia