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TREY BARBER
GRADUATE STUDENT My current research interests pertain to lexicology of the Portuguese language as well as the Linguistic approach to translation. As the Portuguese language is quite a complex one I am interested in developing a better linguistic understanding of the language especially in relation to its semantics. It is my hope that my future research in this area will not only provide other translators with a more thorough comprehension of the language but will also aide other learners of Portuguese with a more straightforward approach to its often perplexing grammar and vocabulary. As of now, I am particularly focused on translations of contemporary Brazilian literature, both fiction and non-fiction. I am also interested in translating of works of literature by authors of the Brazilian literary canon (including but not limited to: Paulo Coelho, Machado de Assis, Rubem Fonesca, Érico Veríssimo, and Mário de Andrade). One issue that is of particular interest to me is the idea of untranslatability; the idea that certain words or phrases in one language have no equivalent when translated into another. |
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ÍCARO CARVALHO
GRADUATE STUDENT Ícaro Carvalho is a graduate student who focuses his studies in Brazilian geographical spaces and social classes through literature, cinema and music lyrics. His masters' thesis aimed to voice the social, political and cultural conflicts of the 20th century urban Brazilian working class by studying its background and its impact on the subsequent decades. Moreover, the study analyzed how these people expressed themselves artistically in such a harsh and unique environment. Ícaro Carvalho’s current main interests are historical studies, studies of social classes and narrative studies in general, through the dialogue of different media, specially films and literature written in Portuguese. Besides his experience teaching Portuguese language, Brazilian literature and creative writing at university context, he has also published articles, book chapters and has presented at academic events. |
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BARBARA GALINDO
Ph.D. CANDIDATE E-mail: bgrodrigues@g.ucla.edu Office: Rolfe Hall 4327 I am specializing in Latin American literatures and cultures, with a focus on Andean and Amazonian cultural production. I have worked as a translator for 9 years and in 2013 received a grant from the Brazilian National Library to do the first Spanish translation of seven essays on Amazonia by Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha. I also lived in the Peruvian Amazon where I worked on a literary cartonera project (2010-2012) directed by Dr. Frédérique Apffel- Marglin, in collaboration with the Ethnic Council of Kichwa Youth in Amazonia, and as part of the international project “Cultural Agents” directed by Professor Doris Summer of the Romance Languages Department at Harvard University. Currently, I am writing my doctoral dissertation on the cultural representations of extractivism in the Andes. As the Editor-in-Chief of Mester (2019-2020), I am also working on a general issue on Human Rights with a special section focused on the Andean and Amazonian regions. ISAAC GIMÉNEZ
Ph.D. CANDIDATE E-mail: igimenez@g.ucla.edu Office: Rolfe Hall 4320 I’m interested in Brazilian contemporary poetry, in particular I am looking at the relationship between resistance and poetry from a marginal trope. The 1922 Generation of Brazilian Modernists and the Mimeograph Generation in the early 1970s later on, rose important questions about language, identity, representation, authorship, and circulation of poetry. I believe the works associated with “marginal poetics” in Brazil can help us to better understand current debates in literary criticism about legitimacy, canon and the sociopolitical role of art. Some of the questions I am engaging with are: How does poetry resist? What do we consider marginal when operating in a poetic realm? How can we think of poe(li)tic(al) activism from a transnational and intergenerational point of view? How are the marginal ethos and praxis appropriated and revisited in today’s poetic production? MI MEDRADO
GRADUATE STUDENT E-mail: mimedrado@ucla.edu Office: Rolfe Hall 4316 My doctoral research inquiries are related to the Brazilian telenovela costume design itself, and how an artistically crafted object being treated as a material thing born in a fictional narrative, when comes to commercial and cultural circulation may weave shapes, colors and silhouettes. Does the Brazilian telenovela costume designs materiality make culture? If so, how Brazilian telenovela costume designs personify Brazilian design and constitute their aesthetics references? How media and fashion industries may have embedded race and gender? Would these costume designs be a materialized practice of racial capitalism? How media and fashion industries may demonstrate in Angola social and political affairs? |