ADRIANA LISBOA: LITERATURA, LUTO E HUMANIDADE

Resumo

In the fall of 2019, I taught a course on Brazilian culture and social justice, which I developed with extensive mentoring from Leila Lehnen. During the course my students and I discussed Adriana Lisboa’s short story “Glória” (2016), and I reached out to her beforehand to invite her to join our discussion via Skype, which she graciously agreed to. She also allowed me to interview her via Skype on October 25, 2019, as part of a research project investigating human rights and literature in Brazil. After a long delay caused by the pandemic and by changes in professional and personal circumstances, I reconnected with Lisboa and asked if we could revisit the interview and explore a few additional questions, which we did in early 2025. I’m grateful to Lisboa for sharing her insights with me, to the faculty and staff of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown for supporting my research during this time, and to the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University for granting funding in 2022 that allowed me to hire several research assistants (Carrie Janotti, Xana Furtado, Ashton Tolento, and Cayden Bro) to help transcribe and analyze this and other interviews.