Naylane Araújo Matos

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Naylane Araújo Matos is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Federal University of Rondônia – Amazon Region in Brazil, where she coordinates the feminist project 'Ni una menos: Literature and Feminisms in Latin America and the Caribbean', a literacy project that articulates literary texts, feminist agendas and struggles for social equality in Latin America and the Caribbean and their multilingual and geopolitical contexts. Her research interests, expertise and publications encompass the fields of Feminist Translation Studies, Feminist Literary Criticism, and Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy. Her PhD thesis 'Feminist Translation Studies in Brazil: Historical, Theoretical and Methodological Paths in National Scientific Production (1990–2020)' (2022), received the award for best thesis in linguistics and literature from CAPES agency in 2023. Her current research aims to re-examine and expand the discussions on Feminist Translation Studies, with a particular focus on decolonial perspectives, in order to gain a deeper understanding of how epistemologies from the Global South, particularly those from Brazil, can contribute to foster the development of heterogeneous approaches to the field of Feminist Translation Studies at a transnational level. She also translates from a feminist, anti-capitalist and anticolonial perspectives.