Biography

​Laura Patrícia Zutini de Izarra is graduated in English Language (1974) from the Juan XXIII Institute (Argentina), Master (1989), PhD (1995) and Full Professorship (2006) in English Language and Literary Studies from the University of São Paulo. Performed her postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies (FAPESP Scholarship 2004), she was a visiting researcher at Trinity College Dublin (FAPESP Scholarship 2004); visiting professor at School of English and researcher in the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (FAPESP Scholarship 2013). Currently, she is a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo; she coordinates the W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (since 2009) and the exchange programs agreements between USP and the National University of Ireland/Maynooth (since 2007), Queens University Belfast (since 2011), St. Marys University College, London (FFLCH 2011-2015), Trinity College Dublin (since 2012), University College Cork (since 2012), University of Limerick (since 2012) and University College Dublin (since 2017). She is member of the International Board of An Foras Feasa Research Institute (NUI-Maynooth) and of the International Editorial Board of the Irish University Review (ISSN 0021-1427), of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and of the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE), as well as of national academic journals. She was president of APLIESP (Association of English Teachers’ of the São Paulo State), of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) and of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies (ABEI); she is representative of non-English-speaking countries of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures). Author of “Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of an Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville” (NY & Oxford: International Scholars Publications, 1999) and “Narrativas de la diáspora irlandesa bajo la Cruz del Sur” (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2010-11). Organizer of several books and co-editor of ABEI Journal – The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies (1999-2018) and of the “Lectures” series (since 2010) from the W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies. She coordinated ANPOLL’s Work Group of Foreign Literatures (1998-2002), FAPESP’s Thematic Project, “From Ireland to Brazil: Critical Texts” (2006-2009) and the International Project SPeCTReSS by the Chair/USP (Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and Reestablishing Social Sovereignty/ 2014-2017). Since 1998, she is leader of the research group “Literary Narratives and Identities in the English-language diasporic spaces”, registered at CNPq. Her interdisciplinary projects in the fields of post-colonialism, Irish studies, Indian studies, and theories of diaspora, include the postdoc research “From India to Brazil” at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (FAPESP 2013); organizer of several events and co-curator of the itinerant exhibitions: “Roger Casement in Brazil: Rubber, the Amazon, and the Atlantic World, 1884-1916” (2010) and “Roger Casement/Silvino Santos: Trip to Putumayo and its affluents” (2016) in Brazil and abroad (Spain, Ireland, United States, Peru, Argentina). Currently, she coordinates three research projects in the fields of post-colonial and diaspora studies and the democracy crisis under the cultural trauma perspective.​​​​​​​