Inês Forjaz de Lacerda

Inês Forjaz de Lacerda (she/ela/ella) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Her dissertation is a literary and cultural history of postcolonial writing in Portuguese from Mozambique, Goa, Macau, and East Timor. In particular, she examines how African and Asian authors of the late twentieth century produced intentionally strange or dislocating fictions to redefine national identity in the wake of empire. 

Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal of Lusophone Studies, BRASIL/BRAZIL, and Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, among others. She has written reviews on contemporary poetry and critical scholarship for Colóquio/Letras, Comparative Literature, and Asia/América Latina. She is also a regular contributor to Pessoa Plural, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Fernando Pessoa. 

As a Portuguese-American, Inês is passionate about transcultural and equitable approaches to education that bridge cultures and languages. She is a current co-Coordinator of the McDougal Graduate Fellows at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, and editor of a new resource for first-time teachers, the Teaching How-To. Before Yale, she spent three years as an educator at an international school in her hometown of Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Kenyon College (2017) and an M.Phil. in Comparative Studies from the University of Lisbon (2020).