Open Class | Talk with Natalia Borges Polesso
Schedule
Thu Nov 13 2025 at 03:00 pm to 03:50 pm
UTC-05:00Location
159 George Street, Providence, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02906 | Providence, RI
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ABOUT THE PRESENTATIONDuring this open-class session of POBS 630H (Futuridades Cuír/Queer: Reimagining the Portuguese-Speaking World Through Fiction), Natalia Borges Polesso will talk about her work as a queer writer in Brazil, centering queerness and the role of water, as an element, as part of her approach to literature and the ideas behind her fictional work. This will be followed by an informal conversation about some of the short stories in the book Condições Ideais de Navegação para Iniciantes (2024). The event will be conducted in Portuguese.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Natalia Borges Polesso is from Bento Gonçalves in Brazil. She is a writer and a translator with a PhD in literary theory. She is the author of Cutouts for Photo Album without People (2013), Amora (2015)—which in 2016 won the Jabuti Award, the Jabuti Amazon Reader’s Choice Award, the Book of the Year AGES Award, and the Acorianos Literature Award—and Control (2019), among other titles. In 2017, she was one of only two Brazilian authors on the Bogotá39 list, which selects the most promising Latin American authors under thirty-nine.
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This event is hosted by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and co-sponsored by the Belda Endowment and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD).
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