Event

The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Section presents a guest lecture by Prof Christopher Larkosh, Associate Professor of Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth on the topic, Contemporary Goan Women Writing.

The lecture takes place from 3pm. 

About the Lecture

In his talk on Contemporary Goan Women Writing, Prof Christopher Larkosh will look at Goan writers Margaret Mascarenhas and Sonia Faleiro. As global literary networks and markets change and reconnect along new lines, Goan women writers have adapted to this change, writing in English about lives in global migration and in contact with the lived realities of cultures from across India.

About Prof Larkosh

Prof Larkosh is multilingual scholar in both research interests and teaching as well as in everyday practice, he has published and lectured around the world in a number of global languages, not only in relation to Portuguese-speaking cultures, but also others including Quebec, Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, South and East Asia, as well as on the translational, transcultural and non-normative gendered interactions between them. He edited the recent collected volume Re-Engendering Translation: Transcultural Practice, Gender/Sexuality and the Politics of Alterity (London/New York: St. Jerome/Routledge, 2011)

He is also currently working on a book on the cultural interactions between Lusophone and Asian cultures in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, as well as contributing to two research teams in translation studies: one on global translations of Frantz Fanon based at the University of Nottingham in the UK, and another on histories of translation and gender in Romance literary traditions at the University of Erlangen in Germany.