Laura P. Z. Izarra is Full Professor of Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo, Coordinator of the W.B.Yeats Chair of Irish Studies/USP and former president of the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies-ABEI (2009-2018) and Society for Irish Latin American Studies-SILAS (2006-2009). She is author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths. The Process of a ‘New’ Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (NY 1999), Narrativas de la diáspora irlandesa bajo la Cruz del Sur (Buenos Aires 2010) and Cultural Trauma: Irish Literary Resonances (São Paulo 2020); editor of Da Irlanda para o Brasil: Textos Críticos (since 2009) and Roger Casement in Brazil (2010) with two exhibitions (2010, 2016); co-editor of ABEI Journal (since 1999), Lectures (since 2010) and the Portuguese translation of The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016). She has published widely on Irish contemporary literature; at present, her main research interests are literature of the diaspora, cultural trauma and memory studies.
