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Isis Barra Costa

Isis Barra Costa

Isis Barra Costa

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Assistant Professor |Department of Spanish and Portuguese | College of Arts and Sciences

Email
Email Isis Barra Costa barracosta.1@osu.edu
Office
263 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road Columbus, OH 43210
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Education

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University (2005)
  • M.A., English Literature, New York University (1992)
  • B.A., English Literature and Education, Pontificia Universidade Católica, São Paulo (1989)

Isis Barra Costa is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. Dr. Barra Costa's interests include Interdisciplinary approaches to Brazilian literature and culture (North American and Hispanic/ Anglophone Caribbean); Afro-Brazilian performance, visual arts, literature and poemusic/orature; Afro-Diasporic sacred and secular manifestations in its various expressions; and politics of identity, gender and race in the literatures of the Americas. 

Her upcoming book, entitled Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future: Philosophies, Cosmologies, and Religious Traditions of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora (Columbia University Press, 2025), is an exposé of overlooked African diasporic forms of knowledge, art, history, religion, philosophy, and cosmology. In 2023, Professor Barra Costa became the sole recipient of the Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Her publications include Mnemonic Maps of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora. (Forthcoming with Diasporic Africa Press, 2017); Passo da Guanxuma: Contactos culturales entre Brasil y Argentina. Isis Costa McElroy and Eduardo Muslip, eds. (Buenos Aires: Editorial Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, 2013); Brasil: Ficciones de Argentinos. Isis Costa McElroy and Eduardo Muslip, eds. (Buenos Aires: Casa Nova, 2013).

Dr. Barra Costa has taught the following courses: Contactos culturales entre Brasil y Argentina; Twenty-first Century Brazilian Literature/ Literatura e cibercultura; Transtextuality in the Portuguese Speaking World: Cinema & Literature; Introdução às literaturas e culturas do mundo lusófono; Representing Identity in the Cinema of the Portuguese-Speaking World; Portuguese Conversation and Composition; Latin American Literature in Translation.

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