Revista Pihhy: Translator Collective

Seeds of Indigenous Knowledge

Background image: Revista Pihhy banner with geometric art in earth tones.

Revista Pihhy ("seed" in the Mehi Jarka language) seeks to highlight, record, and circulate Indigenous knowledge authored by thinkers from some of the 305 Indigenous peoples and at least 274 Indigenous languages existing in Brazil. CLACS is partnering with its publishers at the Núcleo Takinahakỹ de Formação Superior Indígena at the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil and the Secretaría de Formação, Livro e Leitura at the Ministério da Cultura in Brasilia to translate one monthly piece for an English-speaking audience. The project was conceived by artist, educator and leader Naine Terena, is edited by Alexandre Herbetta and Gilson Ipaxi Awiga Tapirapé, and coordinated at Berkeley by Natalia Brizuela. The Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil translating into English includes Derek Allen, Luiza Bastos Lages, Mônica Carvalho Gimenes, Gabriel Lesser, Ana Claudia Lopes, Isaac McQuinn, and Liam G. Seeley.

Derek Allen

Ph.D. Student

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Derek Allen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley in the Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture track with a Designated Emphasis in Film and Media Studies. He received his M.A. in Portuguese from Indiana University in 2020.Read more about Derek Allen

Mônica Carvalho Gimenes

Ph.D. Student

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Mônica Gimenes (she/her) is a feminist researcher of contemporary Latin American literature and cultures. Her doctoral dissertation foregrounds the aesthetic dimensions of the political work combating feminicidal violence in recent novels and short stories from Brazil and Argentina. She is...Read more about Mônica Carvalho Gimenes

Luiza Bastos Lages

Ph.D. Student

Department of Ethnic Studies

Luíza’s research centers the contemporary art practices of Indigenous, Black, and Brown artists from Latin America, and their diaspora in the United States, with a focus on how particular aesthetic practices articulate non-modern (non-western) knowledges and...Read more about Luiza Bastos Lages

Gabriel Lesser

Ph.D. Student

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Gabriel Lesser is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. He studies humor in Latin American literary and visual culture. His dissertation is about racial satire, caricatures, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil. He received a Fulbright-Hays...Read more about Gabriel Lesser

Ana Claudia Simão de Oliveira Lopes

Ph.D. Student

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Ana Claudia Simão de Oliveira Lopes is a Ph.D. student in Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and the Critical Theory Program. She completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature at Berkeley in 2021, receiving the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellowship for outstanding academic achievements. She is a co-...Read more about Ana Claudia Simão de Oliveira Lopes

Isaac McQuinn

Ph.D. Student

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Isaac McQuinn is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He studies Brazilian literature of the 20^th century, in particular the modernist period. This summer, Isaac will be conducting pre-dissertation research into Mário de Andrade in São Paulo...Read more about Isaac McQuinn

Liam G. Seeley

Ph.D. Student

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Liam G. Seeley is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. He holds an A.B. in Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures from Princeton University. His research focuses on contemporary vegetal aesthetics, visual culture, and world-making in/beyond...Read more about Liam G. Seeley