Luana Antunes Costa

Luana Antunes Costa has been a professor at the Institute of Languages and Literatures at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophonie (UNILAB/CE) in Brazil since 2016. She coordinates the research group Sur le corps féminin – Littératures africaines et Littérature afro-brésilienne (CNPq).

She holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from the University of São Paulo (2014) under the supervision of Benjamin Abdala Junior. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships: in Comparative Studies at Sorbonne University (CRIMIC) from 2021 to 2022 and in Lusophone Literature at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2015. Her master's thesis on Portuguese-language African literature and Portuguese literature, supervised by Laura Cavalcante Padilha, received the publication award from the Federal University of Fluminense Press (2008).

Since 2013, she has conducted field research and led international cooperation projects as a visiting professor in France, Martinique, Portugal, Mozambique, and French Guiana. Her research focuses on comparative studies of Lusophone African and Francophone literature, Afro-diasporic literature, literature and politics, counter-hegemonic feminist epistemologies, and translation and interculturality. She is also an activist in Brazil's Black feminist movement.

The project

Title: Créolisation, créolités et autres camouflages chez les écrivaines afro-diasporiques  - Une recherche en Études Comparées (Martinique et Îles du Cap-Vert)

Hosting institution: Laboratoire Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM), in Pessac, région bordelaise

Selective Bibliography

• COSTA, L. A.; PINHEIRO, R.  A insubordinação caroliniana: representações da violência contra mulheres negras em Diário de Bitita, de Carolina Maria de Jesus. In: SILVA, Gabriela; KÜTTER, Cintia (Orgs.). Vozes femininas nas literaturas portuguesas, brasileira e africanas. Porto Alegre: Editora Bestiário, 2024, p. 307-327.
• L’enseignement de l’awalé au Brésil : des stratégies contre l’épistémicide des savoirs de la population africaine et de ses descendants (ou awalé, notre graine venue de l’Afrique). In : FONKOUA, R. (Org.), Awalé – Une Présence Africaine. Paris, Éditions  Présence Africaine, 2023, p.147-153. Disponible : [https://shs-cairn-info.acces.bibl.ulaval.ca/revue-presence-africaine-2023-2-page-147?lang=fr]. Accès : 13.01.2025.
• Apprendre de Lélia Gonzalez : la catégorie politico-culturelle de l’améfricanité. Esquisses/Laboratoire Les Afriques dans le monde, Bordeaux, 26 avril 2023. Disponible : [https://elam.hypotheses.org/5054]. Accès : 13.01.2025. (français/portugais)
•  Cartas para Paulina Chiziane: vozes-mulheres pela manutenção da vida no mundo. Revista da Feira do Livro de Maputo, Maputo, vol. 1, n. 1, p. 45 – 49, 2021. Disponible: [https://issuu.com/fcultura/docs/pdf_revista_feira_do_livro_2021].
• ‘Somos todas Marielle Franco!’: intelectuais negras no Brasil e a manutenção da vida In:  SALGADO, Maria Teresa et all. Escritas do corpo feminino: perspectivas, debates, testemunhos. vol. 1. Rio de Janeiro: Oficina Raquel, 2018,  p. 126-134.
• Murmúrios da escrita em Jesusalém. Revista Gragoatá, v.21, Niterói, p.786 - 806, 2016.