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CLACS is proud to be a part of Revista Pihhy, a collaboration with the Núcleo Takinahakỹ de Formação Superior Indígena at the Universidade Federal de Goiás and the Secretaría de Formação, Livro e Leitura at the Ministério da Cultura in Brasilia, that focuses on knowledge production by Indigenous people in Brazil.
CLACS will publish English-language translations from the Brazilian journal by the Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil.
Derek Allen is a Ph.D. candidate in Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture with a Designated Emphasis in Film. His courses taught at UC Berkeley include: “Introduction to Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese-Speaking Cultures,” “Reading and Composition: Postcolonial...Read more about Derek Allen
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 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 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 is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He studies Brazilian literature of the 20th 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 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