Cielo G. Festino
Cielo G. Festino has a Master´s degree and a PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo. She did a post-doctoral program on teaching English-language literature at the University of São Paulo (DLM)(2007-2009), a second post-doctoral on short stories in the vernacular languages of India, by female authors, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2010-2012), and a third postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Classic and Vernacular Letters (USP) (2017-2022) on Goan literature and plurilingualism. She is a professor of English-language literature at Universidade Paulista, São Paulo and a collaborating professor in the Master's program at the Federal University of Tocantins. She is a member of the thematic project “Pensando Goa. A Singular Library in the Portuguese Language” (USP/FAPESP). She has several publications on Indian literature, among which she was co-editor of the volume of the literary magazine Muse India (vol. 70, 2016), dedicated to the literature of Goa in the Portuguese language, of the book A House of Many Mansions: Goan Literature in the Portuguese Language. An Anthology of Original Essays, Short Stories and Poems (Margão, Goa: Under the Peepal Tree, 2017) and the volume "Goans on the Move" from the Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (Vol. 7, 2018).
Works in the field of the colonial press
(2022). Festino, Cielo Griselda. "Jornalismo e engajamento literário. O caso do Free Goa. Revista Centro De Estudos Portugueses, v. 42, 181-204 - 356.
(2021). Festino, Cielo Griselda. "Goa´s Freedom Struggle: the literary network in the newspaper Free Goa." Journal of Romance Studies, v.21, 31 - 48.
(2019). Festino, Cielo Griselda. "Beatriz da Conceição de Ataíde Lobo e Faria: um rosário de contos para a coluna "Leituras para Senhoras". Ex aequo, v. 39,109 - 119.
Fields of interest
Literature in the colonial and postcolonial press; literary journals; journals written in different languages.
Key words
Literature; literary journals; plurilingualism.
Works in the field of the colonial press
(2022). Festino, Cielo Griselda. "Jornalismo e engajamento literário. O caso do Free Goa. Revista Centro De Estudos Portugueses, v. 42, 181-204 - 356.
(2021). Festino, Cielo Griselda. "Goa´s Freedom Struggle: the literary network in the newspaper Free Goa." Journal of Romance Studies, v.21, 31 - 48.
(2019). Festino, Cielo Griselda. "Beatriz da Conceição de Ataíde Lobo e Faria: um rosário de contos para a coluna "Leituras para Senhoras". Ex aequo, v. 39,109 - 119.
Fields of interest
Literature in the colonial and postcolonial press; literary journals; journals written in different languages.
Key words
Literature; literary journals; plurilingualism.
