Dr. Jamille Dias

Biography

Jamille Pinheiro Dias is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Manchester, actively participating in an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project focused on Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America. She works in the Department of Social Anthropology and collaborates with the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, linking with the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Jamille completed her PhD at the University of São Paulo where she defended her dissertation on the poetic translation of Amerindian verbal arts in 2016. Prior to her current role, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Translation Studies at the University of São Paulo. Her primary research interests include Amerindian arts, translation studies, and socio-political and environmental activism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. Additionally, she served as a visiting researcher in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University and as a teaching assistant at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo. Jamille has collaborated in various cultural studies initiatives, including the Brazil/Canada Knowledge Exchange project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and participated in the Amazonian Poetics project with Princeton University. Her notable publications explore themes in linguistic and cultural translation, and she actively engages in research and teaching initiatives in Social Anthropology.

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