Marcela Lemos

Biography

Marcela Lemos is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Utah State University. She has a Ph.D. in Portuguese from Indiana University Bloomington and a Ph.D. and M.A. in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She teaches courses in Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures, visual arts, and cultures, as well as in translation, interpretation, and Portuguese language. Her research is focused on the uses and understandings of images in contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian collective and postmemory. She is working on her first book project, Transatlantic Decolonial Memory Practices in Literature and Other Arts, an investigation on how the uses of image in Luso-Brazilian contemporary literature and visual arts contribute to a decolonial sense of collectivity for collective memory.

Dr. Lemos also researches the relationship between task difficulty and task complexity in the design of task-based/supported language and translation curricula. Her work appears in the Journal of Lusophone Studies, Hispania, O Eixo e a Roda, Aletria, Spanish and Portuguese Review, and peer-edited collections such as The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Indigenous Perspectives and a Political Aesthetics of Resistance (edited by Patricia Vieira, forthcoming) and Memórias da II Guerra Mundial: Imagens, Testemunhos e Ficções(edited by Elcio Cornelsen and Volker Jaeckel, 2018). See more information at https://www.marcelalemos.com/