Grace Holleran
Visiting Lecturer
Professional Bio
Grace Holleran is a Visiting Lecturer in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies who specializes in literary translation and queer/gender studies in the Portuguese-speaking world. A classically trained trumpet player with a Bachelor of Science in Music from Temple University, Grace is also interested in the intersections of musicality and cultural production. This fall, Grace will be defending the dissertation “Translation as Consciousness-Building in Portuguese Lesbian Periodicals,” which has been supported by a FLAD Portuguese Archives Grant, toward a PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory at UMass Dartmouth. Grace is a practicing literary translator (Portuguese – English) and is a member of the editorial collective of Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation. Upcoming projects include translations of the Angolan author João Melo and the Brazilian poet Catarina Lins.
Research Interests
Contemporary Lusophone poetry, translation of Lusophone literatures, queer/activist literary translation, gender and sexuality, alternative print culture, music.
Publications
Articles
“Translation as Consciousness-Building in the Portuguese Lesbian Press (1990-2002).” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 24: Translating Transnational Feminisms, Spring 2024, https://doi.org/10.23860/jfs.2024.24.05.
“COUP: Translating Radical Literature in the Context of a New Fascism.” Textus, Culture Issue 2: Viral Transcultures: Critical Teleconnectivities on the Edges of the “New Normal,” 2021, https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7370/101906.
Translations
Selections from O meu corpo humano by Maria do Rosário Pedreira. Showcased at the 54th Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, 6–9 June, 2024.
“T.S. Climbs Up the Hill, or Café Urbe” by Catarina Lins. Tilt 0001, 2023. Showcased at the 2023 New Orleans Poetry Festival.
“Africans” by João Melo. Brittle Paper, 2022.
The Body in Crisis by Christine Greiner, co-translation with Christopher Larkosh. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
un cuerpo negro / a black body by Lubi Prates, co-translation with Chris Daniels. New York: Nueva York Poetry Press, 2020.
Courses Recently Taught
PORTUG 315: Portuguese Civilization
PORTUG 408: Brazil in Film & Fiction