Marcela Lemos
Portuguese - World Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
Ph.D. in Portuguese from Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D. and M.A. in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biography
Marcela Lemos is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Utah State University. She has a Ph.D. in Portuguese from Indiana University Bloomington and a Ph.D. and M.A. in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She teaches courses in Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures, visual arts, and cultures, as well as in translation, interpretation, and Portuguese language. Her research is focused on the uses and understandings of photography and image in contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature about the memory of political and human rights violations. She also researches the relationship between task difficulty and task complexity in the design of task-based/supported language and literature curricula. Her work appears in the Journal of Lusophone Studies, Hispania, O Eixo e a Roda, Aletria, Spanish and Portuguese Review, and peer-edited collections such as Memórias da II Guerra Mundial: Imagens, Testemunhos e Ficções (edited by Elcio Cornelsen and Volker Jaeckel, 2018). See more information here: https://www.marcelalemos.com/