Rosane Carneiro Ramos

Teaching Fellow in Portuguese

  • Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
  • Department of European Languages and Cultures
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Contact details

Address

Street

Room 3.23
50 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LH

Availability

  • Office Hours for students
    Mondays 14:00-15:00 | Thursdays 10:30-11:30
    Due to the pandemic online meetings are also available.
    Please email to arrange a meeting.

Biography

Background

Dr Rosane Carneiro Ramos joined the University of Edinburgh in 2021. She teaches Portuguese Language (oral/written/literature), Brazilian Culture, Translation Studies and Postcolonial African Literature in Portuguese. She holds a BA in Social Communication from Rio de Janeiro State University, an MA in Modern Languages/Brazilian Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from King's College London. She also completed a post-graduate course in Publishing Management, by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. Rosane's doctoral research project investigated the presence of prose lyricism in Brazilian novels as a significant counterpoint to the narrative mode of social realism in Brazil. Her thesis, awarded in 2017, was published as a book by Peter Lang Oxford in 2021. She has previously taught at King's College London ('Brazilian Poetry and Song', Teaching Assistant) and at Aston University (Portuguese Language, Tutor). She is currently a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London, working in a research project about minority writing in Brazil. In 2020 she was awarded a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Exeter, for the project "Women of the Brown Atlantic: Real and Imaginary Passages in Portuguese 1711-2011", examining issues of memory and mobility of women between Portuguese-speaking African countries, Brazil and Portugal. She also collaborates as a researcher and translator for the BBC Africa Eye's current affair programmes, and as a creative writer she has published collections of poetry in both Brazil and the United Kingdom, with participation in printed and online anthologies (poetry/short stories) and literary publications since 2000. Her research interests are Contemporary Brazilian Literature, Latin American Literature, Minority Writing, Memory, Translation Studies, Prose Lyricism and Poetry.

Undergraduate teaching

  • Portuguese Language Oral Tutorials (Year 1)
  • Portuguese Language Literature Seminar (Year 1)
  • Portuguese Language Written Tutorials (Year 2)
  • Culture and Society in the Portuguese Speaking World (Year 2)
  • Brazilian Culture (Year 4)
  • Portuguese Language Paper 2 (Year 4)
  • Postcolonial African Literature in Portuguese (Year 4)

Areas of interest for supervision

Current undergraduate student supervised

Tom MacDormat, "A miscigenação religiosa segundo Jorge Amado: Um estudo sobre o sincretismo afro-brasileiro em 'Capitães da Areia' e 'Tenda dos Milagres'" - Dissertation in Portuguese

Research summary

Contemporary Brazilian Literature, Latin American Literature, Minority Writing, Memory, Translation Studies, Prose Lyricism and Poetry.

Current research interests

Rosane's current research project for the University of Exeter studies issues of black female memory, mobility and the African diaspora in the Brown (i.e., Portuguese speaking) Atlantic. She is the Memory Residency Holder at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, working with Dr Ana Margarida Dias Martins in the AHRC-funded project ‘Women of the Brown Atlantic: Real and Imaginary Passages in Portuguese, 1711-2011’. At King's College London she examines the interface in contemporary Brazil between the cultural politics of social exclusion, struggles over human rights, and the recent movements of marginal writing.

Past research interests

Rosane has investigated and published on Brazilian lyrical novel-writing during her doctorate research and participated in Project ‘Transnationalities: Literature, Translations Processes and Education’ from 2015 to 2019, a joint project involving the King’s College London and the Federal Institute of Science, Education and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) which concerned formation of translators from Portuguese and translation of contemporary Brazilian authors through digital methods.

Project activity

  • Women of the Brown Atlantic – Real and Imaginary Passages in Portuguese, 1711-2011 (Memory Residency holder), AHRC/University of Exeter (2020-present)

  • Literature from All: Exclusion and Writing in Brazil, King's College London (2019-present)

  • A Sunflower in Her Hair: Poems and Testimonies for Marielle Franco (readings and debate/organiser and reader), King’s College London and the University of Oxford (2018-19)
  • Lusophone Women Writers (researcher/contributor), Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writers page – Institute of Modern Languages/University of London (2016)
  • Transnationalities: Literature, Translation Processes and Education, King’s College London and the Federal Institute of Science, Education and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)(2015-2019)
  • Brazilian Literature: Other Voices (seminars/organiser), King’s College London and the University of Oxford (2015)
  • Brazilian Literature: Challenges for Translation (symposium/organiser), King’s College London (2014)
  • Rio de Janeiro in the Spotlight (filmscreening and debate/organiser), King’s College London (2015)

 

Conference details

  • VIII International Conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL), at University of Edinburgh. Paper: “Metaphors in Reaction: Anthologies of Resistance in Post-2013 Brazil”. 2019.
  • International conference After Clarice: Lispector’s Legacy, at St. John’s College, University of Oxford. Paper: “Lispector’s Images: Pictures of Words, Texts of Tints”. 2017.
  • Brazil Week 2016, at University of Oxford. Paper: “Raduan Nassar, Lyrical Novelist”. 2016.
  • First conference of Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural (REBRAC), at Senate House, London. Paper: “Literatura brasileira em movimento”. 2015.
  • VI International Conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL), at University of Exeter. Paper: “Other Legitimacies: the Lyrical Voice in Brazilian Novels”. 2015.
  • IV Colóquio Internacional Sobre Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, at St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Paper: “O não espaço em Wesley Peres: narrativas líricas em deslocamento”. 2015.
  • Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Annual Conference, at Birkbeck, University of London. Paper: “The Sphinx and the Movies”. 2014.  
  • Conference Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America, at University of Manchester. Paper: “‘Vinegar’: A Brazilian Anthology of Poetry against Oppression”. 2013. 
  • V International Conference of Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL), at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford. Paper: “Hybridization and Lyricism in the Work of Vinicius de Moraes". 2013.

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