Contributors

Ben Kohn is a certified translator (MITI) and chartered linguist with over 20 years’ professional experience. Having graduated in Portuguese and Philosophy at the University of Leeds, specialising in translation and Brazilian Language and Literature, he spent 14 years living and working in Brazil. He is the founding director of Quesco Brasil, with offices in Brazil and the UK, and has translated several published books.

Tania Regina de Luca obtained her degree in History from the University of São Paulo (USP) and went on to pursue her Master’s and PhD degrees in Social History at the same institution. She currently holds the position of Full Professor in the History of Brazilian Republic at São Paulo State University (Unesp), where she teaches courses in Historiography and Cultural and Social History. She has made significant contributions to her field through her extensive research and publications. Her latest books include Práticas de pesquisa em História (2020), A Ilustração (1884–1892): circulação de textos e imagens entre Paris, Lisboa e Rio de Janeiro (2018), and Leituras, Projetos e (Re)Vista(s) do Brasil 1916–1944 (2nd edn, 2017). Professor Luca is a research fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the principal investigator (with Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva) of the CNPq Universal research project ‘É preciso falar sobre as ausentes: a colaboração feminina no jornal O Paiz (1884–1910)’. ORCID: 0000-0002-8942-5237

Milena Ribeiro Martins is Associate Professor in Brazilian Literature at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Brazil, where she specialises in teaching Brazilian Literature and the Theory of Literature. She earned both her Master’s and PhD degrees from Unicamp, where she conducted extensive research on Monteiro Lobato’s short stories. Her research focused on analysing the writing process and publishing history of his works. She has written several articles on Lobato’s literary works and publishing activities. Most recently, Dr Martins has turned her attention to women’s characters and authorship in Brazilian fiction. She has published articles on Iracema Guimarães Vilela and Júlia Lopes de Almeida, showcasing her expertise and contributions to the field of Brazilian Literature. Regarding Almeida’s fiction, she has authored two papers, namely ‘Segredos, dramas e hipocrisia em A Isca, de Julia Lopes de Almeida’ (2020) and ‘Lar violento lar: contos nada singelos de Julia Lopes de Almeida’ (2020), which delve into the themes of secrets, drama, hypocrisy, and domestic violence portrayed in Almeida’s stories. ORCID: 0000-0003-1453-4532

Alexandro Henrique Paixão is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Faculty of Education, Unicamp, where he teaches and supervises research in the area of social thought and education. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Unesp, a Master’s degree in Sociology from USP, and a Doctorate in Sociology from USP, during which time he also conducted research at UVSQY-France (2010–11). Dr Paixão also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Literary Theory and History at Unicamp between 2013 and 2014, and holds specialisations in Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies from CEFAS between 2018 and 2019. He is an Affiliated Member of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo – SBPSP, as of 2020. Dr Paixãois coordinates the Laboratory for the Study of Culture, History, Education, Sociology and Psychoanalysis (LECHESP/FE-UNICAMP), and is also involved in several research projects, including ‘É preciso falar sobre as ausentes: a colaboração feminina no jornal O Paiz (1884–1910)’, funded by CNPq/SAE-BAEF-UNICAMP; ‘The Face of the Jellyfish: Feminine Writings Within the Clinic and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Public Discourse (São Paulo, London and Paris, past and present)’, funded by SAE-BAEF/UNICAMP; and ‘Raymond Williams and Donald Winnicott: on Forming and Caring for Survivors’. ORCID: 0000-0003-1684-3611

Álvaro Santos Simões Júnior is Associate Professor in Brazilian Literature at Unesp (1998). In 2010, he became a CNPq researcher, and from 2013 to 2017, he successfully coordinated the postgraduate programme in Modern Languages at the Faculty of Sciences and Languages in Unesp, campus Assis. Throughout his career, Dr Simões Júnior has published several books on Brazilian Literature, including A sátira do Parnaso (Unesp, 2007), Estudos de Literatura e Imprensa (Unesp, 2014), Bilac vivo (Edusp, 2017), and Cruz e Sousa na imprensa carioca (Edusp, 2022). Additionally, he is the editor of Olavo Bilac’s journalistic collaboration, published in the volumes Registro: Crônicas da Belle Époque carioca (Unicam, 2012) and Sátiras, published in Lisbon (CLEPUL, 2017). ORCID: 0000-0002-5269-7108

Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva has a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese and a Masters’s degree in Literary Theory and History from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). She also has a Master’s degree in European Literature and a Doctor of Philosophy in Brazilian Literature from the University of Oxford. She is Associate Professor in Brazilian Studies at University College London (UCL). She works on Brazilian literature, translation studies, book and press histories, with a focus on prose fiction, the works of Machado de Assis, nineteenth-century Brazilian press, and fashion magazines. She is the principal investigator of the research project ‘É preciso falar sobre as ausentes: a colaboração feminina no jornal O Paiz (1884-–1912)’. Her publications include Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel (UCL Press, 2020, with Sandra Vasconcelos), Machado de Assis’s Philosopher and Dog: From Serial to Book Form (Routledge, 2010), ‘As múltiplas leituras e traduções de “Tratantes” de Ana Maria Machado’ (in Ana Maria Machado Entrevista, 2021), ‘Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho nas páginas de O Paiz (1884–89): levantamento dos textos e notas iniciais de pesquisa’ (with Tania Regina de Luca, Herança, 2021), and ‘Echoes of the Elegiac Novel in Brazilian Literature’ (in Machado Assis em Linha 15, 2022). She coordinates the SELCS Brazilian Translation Club and is a co-editor of the Literature and Translation series for UCL Press. She is recognised by the HEA as a Fellow, 2018. ORCID: 0000-0003-1617-2504