Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes

Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes is Senior Lecturer at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Vice-Director of UFSC’s Postgraduate Programme in English, and Coordinator of both Irish Studies and Feminist Studies in Literature and Translation research clusters. She was a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway in 2017. She is also a professional translator, dramaturge, and theatre director. Fernandes has translated a number of plays by Irish and Northern Irish playwrights including Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats… (published by Rafael Copetti, 2017, and staged by Cia Ludens also in 2017), Mary Raftery’s No Escape (staged by Cia Ludens in 2015), Lady Gregory and Yeats’s Cathleen ni Houlihan (with Maria Rita D. Viana, staged in 2016), Patricia Burke-Brogan’s Eclipsed (staged in 2016-2017), and Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You my Name? (staged digitally in 2020). Her most recent publications include Ilha do Desterro 72.1 - Artistic Collaborations, with Miriam Haughton and Maria Rita D. Viana, A Virada Cultural nos Estudos da Tradução (Ed. UFSC, forthcoming 2021), and a book chapter in The Laundries Collection (MUP, forthcoming 2021).