Silvana Carvalho, Professor of Portuguese-language African Cultures and Literatures at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and director of the research group “Peripheral Poetics: Contemporary Africa, Black Diaspora, Decolonization of Thought and Memory in Portuguese-Language Literatures", will discuss the work of Brazilian Black feminisms and the poetic works of Black women, drawing on the diversity of voices of intellectuals, activists, and writers, considering their respective political and aesthetic projects in the construction of living well in our shared world.
The lecture is part of the commemoration of Black Awareness Day in Brazil and the event series "O dia da Consciência Negra: Mulheres negras, resistência e produção de vida em diálogos entre Brasil e Alemanha".
Silvana Carvalho is Professor of Portuguese-language African Cultures and Literatures at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, Professor in the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture at the Federal University of Bahia as well as Professor in the Quilombola School Education Degree Program - Mãe Bernadete Class (UFRB). She received a PhD in Literary and Cultural Theory and Criticism, with an emphasis on comparative studies between Brazil, Angola, and Portugal, from the Federal University of Bahia (2019) and a Master's degree in Literary Theory from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2014).
She is director of the research group “Peripheral Poetics: Contemporary Africa, Black Diaspora, Decolonization of Thought and Memory in Portuguese-Language Literature” and coordinates the extension program PoÉticas Periféricas e Produções de Vida no Recôncavo da Bahia (Peripheral Poetics and Productions of Life in the Recôncavo of Bahia) at UFRB.
She works as a researcher in the research groups "Territorialidade, Patrimônio de Violência no Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB)", and "Rasuras: Letramentos de Reexistência na diáspora negra (UFBA)". Her research interests are Peripheral Expressions in the Portuguese language, Hip Hop Studies, African Literatures in Portuguese, with a main focus on gender, race, and class.
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