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Green Plant

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What have I done in this life

2019 - present

Ubuntu Leaders Academy (Lisbon, PT)

Training of Trainers (2019-20)

Scientific Council Member (2020-present)

2014-2018

Northwestern University

Graduate Leadership & Advocacy Council (GLAC), Research Committee Member (2017-18)

Residential College of Cultural and Community Studies (CCS), Assistant (2015-16)

Poetry & Poetics Colloquium, Programming Assistant and Administrative Manager (2015-16)

Comparative Modernisms Workshop, Programming Assistant, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities (2013-14)

2005 - present

Teaching English and Portuguese 

Private lessons

Language Centers (Brazil and Portugal)

Co-founder of CEI, Center for the Study of English for Brazilians (Lisbon, 2018-19)

Associations and Support Centers for Refugees and Immigrants (Portugal, United States)

Where and when I was (am) a student

2021 - present

Waldorf Pedagogy |
Lisbon, Portugal

Training of trainers​

2012-2018

Northwestern University |
Chicago, Illinois, United States

PhD in Comparative Literature Studies​

2011

University of Winnipeg | 
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Visiting Master's Student in Comparative Literature

2011

Paulista State University (UNESP) |
Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Master in Literary Studies (2009-2011)

Bachelor's Degree - English (2007-2008)

Degree - Portuguese / French (2003-2006)

Other projects
 

2021 - present

"Flying Texts" Collection |
Center for Communication and Culture Studies, Catholic University of Portugal

 Creator, coordinator and member of the jury 1st. number " Tales ". 

2021 (Jan-Jul)

Challenges in Education in Times of (Post)Pandemic: the Ubuntu Contribution | Ubuntu Leaders Academy 

Coordinator of the research group "Educating for Interdependence"

2021 - present

"Portuguese Writers in the Time of the Military Dictatorship and the New State" | 
New University of Lisbon

Contributor 

The most recent published
 

  • Anzini, Patricia. “Was Whitman Betrayed in Brazil? Geir Campos, Ana Cristina Cesar, and the 1983 Chopping Up of Leaves of Grass.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. vol. 39, Issue 01. Summer 2021. pp. 51-54.

  • Anzini, Patricia and Reginald Gibbons (Transls). “The Face, the Body, The Voice”. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. vol. 39, Issue 01. Summer 2021. pp. 55-58.

  • Anzini, Patricia; Marques, Elsa Montenegro; Strong, Anne; Neves, Tania. The Challenges of Education in Times of (Post) Pandemic: The Ubuntu Contribution. José Luis Gonçalves and Madalena Alarcão (Orgs.). Lisbon: Impress, 2021. p. 215-223.

  • Anzini, Patricia. Anthropophagy in “Crisis”: Oswald de Andrade's Third Dentition. Diffractions, 79-85, 2020. http://doi.org/10.34632/diffractions.2020.8410 

  • Anzini, Patricia; Andrade, Oswald; Alcobia-Murphy, Cassilda. The Crisis of Messianic Philosophy. Diffractions, 86-98, 2020. http://doi.org/10.34632/diffractions.2020.8413

Organized things here and there

Some of the conferences I've been to

  • “From Pandora to Frankenstein: A Reflection on Literary Hope Through the Ages.” Workshop. The Cultural Politics of Hope Conference. Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2021.

  • "Ubuntu Talks - Building Bridges: Educating for Interdependence" . Curator, co-organizer and mediator. Ubuntu Leaders Academy, May 2021.

  • “Brazil, Parallel Commerce”. Brazilian Film Cycle. Curator and organizer. House of Brazil from Lisbon, Portugal, February 2017.

  • “Words in Transit: a Colloquium on Translation in Debate”. Curator and Co-organizer. Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, November 2015.

  • Poetry Recital “Palabra Pura: Nossa América” - Bilingual poem reading series. Curator and organizer. The Guild Literary Complex. Chicago, November 2015.

  • Fourth “International Whitman Week”. Member of the organizing committee. Paulista State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil, 2011.

  • “'I Am Also Untranslatable': On How Alexandre Vidal Porto Adapted Walt Whitman's Poetry into His Narratives.” III Congress OPEN. Online, September 2021.

  • “Bridge Building and Education.” Moderator. Ubuntu Fest, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2021.

  • “Ubuntu and Higher Education Educators in Portugal: Case Studies, Experiences and Challenges.” 10th FORGES Conference: Higher Education in the Digital Age in Portuguese-speaking Countries and Regions: Challenges and Proposals. Évora, November 2020.

  • “Poets Still Come: Alexandre Vidal Porto, Walt Whitman and Brazilian Literature.” Brazil in Cultural Webs: International Relations under the Sieve of Cultural Criticism. State University of Bahia (Uneb), Bahia, Brazil, October 2020.

  • “Can Luso-Brazilian Women Speak? Ana de Castro Osório's Lesson on Luso-Brazilian Feminism across the Atlantic.” International Colloquium “See/Review the Writing of Women in Portugal (1926-1974).” Lisbon, Portugal, March 2020.

  • “How to Translate 'Grass' into Portuguese: Walt Whitman, Geir Campos and Globalization in Brazil.” 6th Conference on Lusophone Language and Culture of Central and Eastern Europe, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, September 2018.

  • “Biting Whitman Softly: Translating Leaves of Grass in Brazil.” American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2017.

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