​Biography

Luciana Carvalho Fonseca is an assistant professor with the Department of Modern Languages at FFLCH/USP. She holds a law degree from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and a master’s and doctorate from the University of São Paulo. She is affiliated with two postgraduate programs: Foreign Languages and Translation (PPG-LETRA) and Linguistic and Literary Studies in English (ELLI). She was a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP) for eleven years and has over twenty years of experience as a conference translator and interpreter and in training translators and interpreters. She was a principal researcher at the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair and Cooperation Network for Latin American Integration at the Memorial of Latin America (2020-2021). She completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany (2022-2024), in the area of Interpretation Studies and Maternal Health, with support from FAPESP and the DAAD, and was a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague (2022-2023). She is currently a researcher with the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies with the project Translation, Gender, and Coloniality. She coordinates the Study, Research, and Action Group on Feminisms, Gender, and Translation (GRETAS - CNPq). Her research topics include translation at the intersection of power and activism, decolonial feminist translation, translation historiography, 19th-century women translators, legal translation, and English language in higher education institutions. Her working languages are Brazilian Portuguese and English.