About
Leonora is an Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. She specializes in twentieth and twenty first century Brazilian Literature and Culture. Her research and teaching interests include Latin American Literature and Culture, Afro-Brazilian Culture, Critical Geographies, Crime Fiction, Urban Art, Social Movements and Graphic Novels. Her current research focuses on the role of under-represented knowledge production in changing the exclusionary terrain of contemporary Brazilian culture. Her work has been published in Brazil and the United States.
Education
Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 2013
M.A. University of California San Diego, 2010
M.A. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2004
B.A. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2002 Publications
2016 “Literatura Periférica: Challenging São Paulo’s Cultural Segregation.” The International Journal of the Constructed Environment. Vol. 7 Issue 2:13-24.
2016 “Crisis and Revolution: Activist Art in Neoliberal Buenos Aires.” Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance. Lisa Calvente and Guadalupe García (ed). (Chapter). London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
2016 “Cultural Responses to Urban Violence in 21st Century Brazil: New Writers Speak from the Margins.” Hispanófila. 178.1: 67-79.
2014 “eles eram muitos cavalos: Challenging the Regulating Fiction of the Global City.” Romance Notes. 54.1: 95-102.
2008 “Filosofia em quadrinhos: Diferença e Repetição em Salut Deleuze!” Aletria. No. 15. Belo Horizonte: Editora da UFMG. Projects
Spaces of Agency in Contemporary Brazilian Culture (Book Manuscript) Memberships
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores Negros (ABPN)
American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA)
