Vanessa Barcelos

Education

2021-2026 College of Arts and Sciences English PhD - University of Miami

2021-2023 Applied linguistics Graduate Program (PosLA) MA - State University of Ceará

2020-2021 Englisch Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik MA - Universität Bielefeld

2014-2016 Applied Linguistics Graduate Program (PosLA) MA - State University of Ceará

2009–2013 English Language and Literature BA - State University of Ceará

Research Experience

2023 – Present – Archival digitization for the UCLA [Comedias Sueltas Database](https://www.comediassueltasusa.org/)

• Digitization of Early Modern Spanish plays at the University of Miami’s Special Collections

2021 – Present – Research Assistant on Latin American Literature for Dr. Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel

• Collect literary and bibliographical resources on Latin American literature; manage course online platforms; translated texts from Portuguese to English; transcribed interviews for oral archives; managed and catalogue university archives.

2014 – 2016: Visual critical literacy in adapted literature books for EFL

• Master’s research project proposing multimodal didactic uses of literature books for English as a Foreign Language.

2011 – 2013: Visual Literacy: Multimodality in educational genres, didactic materials, and contexts.

• Undergraduate research project, analyzing and describing the multimodal approaches in English books for Brazilian highschoolers.