Marcela Lemos
Portuguese - World Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, Co-Coordinator of Latin American Studies
Educational Background
Ph.D. in Portuguese from Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D. and M.A. in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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 the Portuguese language. Her research is focused on the use language and images in Luso-Afro-Brazilian collective memory and postmemory. She is working on her first book, Transatlantic Decolonial Memory Practices in Literature and Other Arts, an investigation on how the uses of language and images 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 ALEA: Estudos Neolatinos, the Journal of Lusophone Studies, Hispania, O Eixo e a Roda, Aletria, Spanish and Portuguese Review, and peer-edited collections such as The Amazon Beyond Extractivism: Indigenous Perspectives and an 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).