Lourdes Teodoro Explained

Lourdes Teodoro
Birth Name:Maria de Lourdes Teodoro
Birth Date:4 June 1946
Birth Place:Vila Couros, Goiás, Brazil
Occupation:writer, poet, university professor and psychoanalyst
Years Active:1986–present
Known For:Afro-Brazilian studies

Lourdes Teodoro (born 4 June 1946) is an Afro-Brazilian academic, writer, poet, and psychoanalyst who studies the effects of colonization on identity.

Biography

Maria de Lourdes Teodoro was born on 4 June 1946 in Vila Couros, Goiás, Brazil. In 1958, with the founding of Brasilia, her family relocated there, where she completed her secondary education.[1] From her youth, she began publishing poems in student journals and newspapers, including Correio Braziliense, and with a group of other students published the Antologia de Alunos Escritores do Elefante Branco (Anthology of Student Writers of the White Elephant) in 1966.[2] After graduating from the University of Brasília[3] with a degree in literature, she began teaching French and Literature at Centro Universitário de Brasília. In 1980, she began work on a doctorate at in Paris on Comparative Literature, graduating in 1984 with a dissertation entitled Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Antillian and Brazilian identities through the works of Aimé Césaire and Mário de Andrade). The work, like many of her tracts, evaluates the effects of slavery and racism on Afro-Brazilians.[4]

After returning to Brazil, Teodoro taught as an adjunct Professor at the Arts Institute of the University of Brasilia.[5] In 1991 she began offering lectures in Africa, participating in seminars in Angola and Senegal. She helped with the founding of the Institute of Black Peoples in Burkino Faso, before moving to the United States. In 1996 Teodoro began graduate studies at Harvard University in African-American studies and psychoanalysis,[6] which she completed in 1998. Her post-doctoral internship in childhood and adolescence psychopathology was completed at the psychiatry clinic of the University Hospital of Brasilia.

Teodoro currently conducts academic research at the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-brasileiras (Institute for Research and Afro Brazilian Studies) in Rio de Janeiro and is practicing psychoanalyst. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and an associate member of the Brasilia Psychoanalytic Society.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lourdes Teodoro. AllAboutArts. 16 February 2016. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Portuguese. 2016.
  2. Web site: Sousa. Salomão. Lourdes Teodoro. Antonio Miranda. 16 February 2016. Brasilia, Brazil. 2004.
  3. Web site: Identidades Culturais eNégritude Antilhana / Maria de Lourdes Teodoro. Grupo Editorial Scortecci. 16 February 2016. São Paulo, Brazil. Portuguese. 2015.
  4. Web site: Black Brazil. New Internationalist. 16 February 2016. December 1991.
  5. Web site: Maria de Lourdes Teodoro . Escavador. 16 February 2016.
  6. Web site: Prior to 1992. Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. 16 February 2016. Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928154916/http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/alumni-fellows-fy07. 28 September 2015. dead.

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