IZARRA, Laura

 

Laura P.Z. Izarra 
 
Laura P.Z. Izarra is Full Professor of Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo, former Vice-Provost and Associate Director at USP International Cooperation Office (2015-2021), Coordinator of the W.B.Yeats Chair of Irish Studies/USP (since 2009) and former president of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies-ABEI (2009-2018). She is author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of a ‘New’ Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (NY 1999), Narrativas de la diáspora irlandesa bajo la Cruz del Sur  (Buenos Aires 2010) and O Trauma Cultural: Ressonâncias Literárias Irlandesas [Cultural Trauma: Literary Resonances in the Irish Diaspora and Contemporary Ireland] among book chapters and essays in peer review journals; editor of Da Irlanda para o Brasil: Textos Críticos (since 2009) and co-curator of Roger Casement in Brazil (2010) with various exhibitions in Brazil and abroad since 2010; co-editor of ABEI Journal (since 1999), Lectures (since 2010), the Portuguese translation of The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016) and Secrets from Putumayo by Aurélio Michiles (2021). Her postdoctoral research was at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London and Trinity College Dublin (2004). She has been Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research and publications are on Irish contemporary literature, literatures of the diasporas, postcolonial literatures, the relations between Ireland, Britain and India, cultural trauma and memory studies. She coordinates national and international academic exchanges including the national group of research “Literary Narratives and Identities in diaspora spaces” and the Chair’s international research networks.