Larissa Farias

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Canadian Literature, women writing, gender studies, sexuality.

CURRENT RESEARCH:
My current research focus on the issues concerning gender and social class in Bonheur d’occasion (1945) and its author influence towards the women literary production of the period known as La grande noiceur (1944-1959) in Quebec.

AWARDS:
– Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (Global Affairs Canada)
– Brazilian Federal Foundation for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education

TEACHING:
English teaching to non-native speakers in Brazil.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
– “Teachers’ Narratives Stories of Learning and Teaching Processes”. Ideia press.
– “Becoming a Woman in a Sexist Society: an analysis of the character Mrs. Kember in the fiction ‘At the bay’”. International Symposium on Discourse Analysis: Discourses and Social Inequalities (UFMG)
– “Factory Summers and the Production of Masculinity”. VI Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Teaching, Research, and Extension (UNITINS)
– “Tradition and Modernity in Bernice Bobs Her Hair, by F. Scott Fitzgerald”. Sociopoética Magazine (v. 23 n. 1)
– “The (de)construction of female identity in the works of Arthur Schnitzler and James Joyce”. Letras Expandidas (PUC-Rio)
– “As Questões de Masculinidade em ‘I’m Afraid of Men’, da Canadense Vivek Shraya”. III Lucila Nogueira Colloquium (UFPE)