Bruna de Lima

Bruna Aoto Franco de Lima is a second-year MA student in Comparative Literature with a focus on Portuguese and English languages. Originally from Brazil, she earned her BA in Portuguese and English from Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in 2021. Her academic interests include literary censorship, post-colonial studies, and Black women’s writings from South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States.

This year she will be presenting her paper titled “Black Women’s Writing as Resistance to Silence: A Comparative Analysis Between Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck and Conceição Evaristo’s Olhos D’água” at the LASA/África 2023 Congress, themed “África y América Latina: Diálogos y Conexiones,” scheduled to take place both virtually and on-site at the University of Ghana from November 15th-18th.