PhD Student and Teaching Assistant of Portuguese/Spanish at University of Georgia, Michel Soares do Carmo holds a M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Portuguese, both from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). He has extensive experience in teaching through different levels (middle and high school; university; adult education) and ages (from 12 to 71). Right before starting his PhD Studies, he was a awarded a Fulbright Fellowship as Teaching Assistant of Portuguese as a Foreign Language at University Notre Dame, IN, United States, through the FLTA/Fulbright Program (2021/2022). He also has experience/training in teaching and/or researching following subjects/topics: Portuguese/English, Pragmatics, Metapragmatics, Linguistics, Language Ideologies, Afro-Brazilian Literatures, Digital Ethnography, Text Proofreading/Revision/Editing, Development of Social/Cultural Projects. His main research interests revolve around decolonial dialogues and re-articulations of identity, language and knowledge.
Research
Amefrican Literatures, Afro-Brazilian Literatures, Digital Ethnography, Pragmatics, Metapragmatics, Linguistics, Linguistic Ideologies.
Selected Publications
Carmo, M. S. do. (2018). Autonomous, independent and lettered subjectivation: contra-hegemonic language conceptions in written productions of black women writers. Estudos De Sociologia, 23(44). https://doi.org/10.52780/res.11026
Carmo, M. S. do. (2015). Mapping of language ideology studies in Brazil. In International Congress of Critical Applied Linguistics (Vol. 19, p. 21). Available: http://www.uel.br/projetos/iccal/pages/arquivos/ANAIS/LINGUAGEM%20EPIST.%20ONTOLOGIA/MAPEAME NTO%20DOS%20ESTUDOS%20SOBRE%20IDEOLOGIA%20LINGUISTICA%20NO%20BRASIL.pdf.
Carmo, M. S.; Pinto, Joana Plaza. Linguajamentos e contra-hegemonias sobre linguagem em produções escritas de mulheres negras. In: X Congresso de pesquisa, ensino e extensão, 2013, Goiânia. Anais do CONPEEX 2013. Goiânia: UFG, 2013. V. 1.
Carmo, M. S.; Pinto, Joana Plaza. Linguajamentos e contra-hegemonias sobre linguagem em produções escritas de literatura na periferia. In: IX Congresso de pesquisa, ensino e extensão, 2012, Goiânia. Anais do CONPEEX 2012. Goiânia: UFG, 2012. V. 1. P. 3613-3622.
Education
- B.A. in Languages and Literatures - Portuguese, 2015, Federal University of Goiás.
- M.A. in Letters and Linguistics, 2017, Federal University of Goiás.
