STILL THEY RISE IN THE CLASSROOM

Pedro Meira Monteiro; Tatiane Rangel

doi:10.18817/rlj.v10i01.4292

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Pedro Meira Monteiro Princeton University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2536-2991
Tatiane Rangel Princeton University

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https://doi.org/10.18817/rlj.v10i01.4292

Resumo

Este ensaio examina Still They Rise: Gender, Bodies, and Writing in Brazil and Beyond, um curso avançado de português ministrado em conjunto que abordou a língua e a literatura como um único ato de construção do mundo. Baseado em epistemologias feministas, decoloniais e queer, o curso propôs tensão e confluência como princípios orientadores do diálogo em sala de aula, trazendo corpos, gêneros e histórias ao primeiro plano, de modo a desestabilizar fronteiras canônicas através do cultivo de formas coletivas de escuta. Refletimos sobre como esses princípios moldaram o programa do curso – combinando autoras que raramente se encontram no mesmo quadro de análise – e como nossas convidadas entrelaçaram suas vozes em nosso percurso. Na prática, um formato de círculo de discussão e sessões lideradas por alunas transferiram a autoridade lateralmente, transformando a leitura em um ato compartilhado. Os trabalhos finais traduziram em matéria esses diálogos por meio de tradução, têxteis, performance e fotografia, exemplificados pela casa-diorama de uma aluna que reimaginou uma série de tetos “todo delas” como um lar coletivo e interseccional. Por fim, argumentamos que ensinar literatura brasileira e latino-americana no exterior pode criar pontes epistêmicas e afetivas, transformando a leitura numa prática de relação e permitindo que as alunas pensem por meio da diferença e do encontro.

Biografia do Autor

Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University

Pedro Meira Monteiro is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

At Princeton, as well as abroad, he has taught courses on literature and society with a main focus on Brazil. The topics range from fiction, poetry, essays, and music to politics, philosophy, race, and citizenship; his seminars have included “#readwomen,” “Thinking Through Plants," ”Modernismos Negros," and “Sound and Sense.”

Working at the intersection of cultural history and literature, Professor Meira Monteiro complements his academic production by writing shorter texts for cultural magazines, blogs, and newspapers. He has edited, translated and authored a number of books, including The Other Roots: Wandering Origins in Roots of Brazil and the Impasses of Modernity in Ibero-America (Notre Dame UP, 2017), Conta-gotas: Máximas & Reflexões (E-galáxia, 2016), The First Class: Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad (Itaú Cultural, 2014, also available in Portuguese and Spanish), and Nós somos muitas: ensaios sobre crise, cultura e esperança (Relicário, 2022, with Arto Lindsay, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux and Rogério Barbosa).

Pedro Meira Monteiro created and co-directed the Princeton summer program in Brazil. In 2018, João Biehl and he created Princeton’s Brazil LAB (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies), a multi-disciplinary research hub for exploring the history, politics, culture and science from Portuguese-speaking areas and beyond. More recently, he co-curated a series of events at FLUP (Literary Festival of the Peripheries in Rio de Janeiro) and was the co-curator of Flip (International Literary Festival of Paraty) in 2021 and 2022. With Jaime Lauriano and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor Meira Monteiro curated the major exhibition “Contramemória” (Counter Memory) at São Paulo’s Municipal Theater in 2022.

A year before he came to Princeton in 2002, Meira Monteiro received his PhD in Literary Theory and History from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil, where he had also received a BA (1993) in Social Sciences and an MA (1996) in Sociology; he also has a DEA (2000) in Socio-Cultural History from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.

Tatiane Rangel, Princeton University

Tatiane Rangel is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Her research explores the intersections of disability, race, and state violence in Latin America and Africa, with a particular emphasis on how urban violence produces disability and how these processes are remembered, represented, and contested through literature, photography, and cultural archives. Her dissertation examines mutilation as a site of memory and social inscription across Brazil, Colombia, and Angola.

Her academic writing is informed by feminist, queer, decolonial, and disability studies frameworks. She is the author of "The embodied writing of Deolinda Rodrigues’s diary: a counternarrative to Angola’s liberation and post-independence discourses"(2025), a peer-reviewed article that examines the intersections of gender and revolutionary memory through the writings and political life of the Angolan guerrilla fighter. She currently co-organizes the reading group Crip Intersections: Medical Humanities, Queerness, and Global South Perspectives of Disability and is a member of the Disability, Debility, and Crip Theory Working Group.

Beyond the university, she has collaborated on accessibility initiatives in the arts, including outreach projects with McCarter Theatre in Princeton, focusing on ASL-interpreted and relaxed performances.

STILL THEY RISE IN THE CLASSROOM

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