Lourdes Teodoro

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Lourdes Teodoro
Born
Maria de Lourdes Teodoro

(1946-06-04) 4 June 1946 (age 79)
Formosa, Goiás, Brazil
Occupation(s)writer, poet, university professor and psychoanalyst
Years active1986–present
Known forAfro-Brazilian studies

Lourdes Teodoro (born 4 June 1946) is an Afro-Brazilian academic, writer, poet and psychoanalyst. She studies the effects of colonization on identity.

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Biography

Maria de Lourdes Teodoro was born on 4 June 1946 in Formosa, Goiás, Brazil. In 1958, with the founding of Brasília, her family relocated there, where she completed her secondary education. [1] From her youth, she began publishing poems in student journals and newspapers, including Correio Braziliense , and with a group of other students published the Antologia de Alunos Escritores do Elefante Branco (Anthology of Student Writers of the White Elephant) in 1966. [2] After graduating from the University of Brasília [3] with a degree in literature, she began teaching French and Literature at Centro Universitário de Brasília. In 1980, she began work on a doctorate at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris on Comparative Literature, [1] graduating in 1984 with a dissertation entitled Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Antillian and Brazilian identities through the works of Aimé Césaire and Mário de Andrade). [4] The work, like many of her tracts, evaluates the effects of slavery and racism on Afro-Brazilians. [5]

After returning to Brazil, Teodoro taught as an adjunct Professor at the Arts Institute of the University of Brasília. [6] In 1991 she began offering lectures in Africa, participating in seminars in Angola and Senegal. She helped with the founding of the Institute of Black Peoples in Burkino Faso, [7] before moving to the United States. In 1996 Teodoro began graduate studies at Harvard University in African-American studies and psychoanalysis, [6] [8] which she completed in 1998. Her post-doctoral internship in childhood and adolescence psychopathology was completed at the psychiatry clinic of the University Hospital of Brasília.

Teodoro currently conducts academic research at the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-brasileiras (Institute for Research and Afro Brazilian Studies) in Rio de Janeiro [6] and is practicing psychoanalyst. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and an associate member of the Brasília Psychoanalytic Society. [3]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "Lourdes Teodoro" (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: AllAboutArts. 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 Sousa, Salomão (2004). "Lourdes Teodoro". Brasília, Brazil: Antonio Miranda. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Identidades Culturais eNégritude Antilhana / Maria de Lourdes Teodoro" (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Brazil: Grupo Editorial Scortecci. 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Teodoro, Maria de Lourdes (1984). Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Ph.D.) (in French). Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
  5. ↑ "Black Brazil". New Internationalist . December 1991. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "Maria de Lourdes Teodoro". Escavador. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Brito, Walter Gualberto de (2006). Memórias de uma família negra brasileira: os inquilinos da casa amarela (in Portuguese). Brasília: Thesaurus Editora. pp. 91–93. ISBN   978-85-7062-575-5.
  8. ↑ "Prior to 1992". Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
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