RESEARCH LINE: Literatures, subjects and social practices

Currently, she is a professor in the English Language and Literature Department at the State University of Bahia, Campus V, and holds a PhD in Ethnic & African Studies from the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO) at the Federal University of Bahia. In 2020, she conceived and coordinated the Afro-centric English teaching project Afro Class Collective, a collective of teachers committed to helping more Black people master English. She holds a Master's degree in Literary Theory and History from the State University of Campinas (2005) with a dissertation on African Literature, particularly Chinua Achebe, and a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese/English from the Fluminense Federal University. She was awarded a Diplomacy Scholarship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and participated in the Advanced Course on Racial Relations - Fábrica de Ideias, promoted by the Federal University of Bahia/CEAO in 2006. For six years, she coordinated the Dutch Sephis Program in Brazil, where she collaborated on the international exchange of academics in the Global South. As part of the editorial team at Pambazuka News, she contributed to the dissemination of information about Portuguese-speaking Africa and Brazil.

AREA OF INTEREST: Ethnic studies, race relations, and African English.

RESEARCH LINE: Literatures, subjects and social practices

Graduated in Journalism from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (1993), specialist in Regional Cultural Policies from FUNDAJ/UFPE (1997), Master in Communication from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2001) and PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts from the University of Algarve, Portugal (2018).

Currently, she is an adjunct full-time professor at the State University of Bahia (UNEB), where she teaches subjects in the areas of contemporary languages, practice and theory in photography and video, scientific research methodology, art and education, literature and other arts, reading and text production, and textual typologies.

She has academic and professional training focused on the management and execution of projects in culture and art, as well as extensive experience in management and consulting activities for public bodies and educational institutions. Her training encompasses multiple languages, with an emphasis on photography — the subject of various publications and exhibitions of her own, as well as artistic and cultural interventions.

She is a member of the Recôncavo Research Group at UNEB, Campus V, where she coordinates the research lines Communication and Languages; Curriculum, Education and New Technologies; Curriculum, New Technologies and Distance Learning, as well as the research, teaching and extension project Narrators of the Recôncavo.

She is a visiting researcher at the Research Center in Arts and Communication (CIAC) of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of UAlg/PT, where she defended her doctoral thesis based on the foundations of photographic esthetic thought, analyzing the phenomenon of the subjectivity of the photographer's gaze from the visual narratives of Pierre Verger and Adenor Gondim about the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

In her free time, she explores and photographs cities, communities, and people, always respecting the cultural identity and individuality of each group in the process.

AREAS OF INTEREST: Contemporary languages ​​and their interfaces, involving different levels of transdisciplinarity between literature and other artistic languages ​​such as photography, cinema, video, theater, comics, digital games, animation, the internet, or their combination in multimedia resources. Her research and extension projects focus on analyzing the role of oral and digital narratives in the interaction of individuals in the Recôncavo Baiano region. She teaches subjects in the areas of scientific research methodology, art and education, literature and other arts, reading and text production, textual typologies, and also works in the area of ​​management and execution of projects and events in culture and art.