Jess Oliveira
Jess Oliveira is a Black sapatão translator, poet and editor. Visiting professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Colorado College. Ph.D. student in Literature and Culture at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She holds a Master’s degree in Translation Studies from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and a B.A. degree in German and Portuguese from the University of São Paulo (USP). Jess works mainly with poetry and performance across the Black Diaspora, focusing on the Black German and Black Brazilian productions in a comparative perspective. She is also an Associate Researcher of the Group Traduzindo no Atlântico Negro – [Translating in the Black Atlantic] at UFBA.
