Fernando Luís de Morais

Fernando Luís DE MORAIS is a poet, translator, professor, and holds a PhD in Literary Studies. His academic and intellectual career is marked by excellence and broad interdisciplinary expertise. He earned a Bachelors degree in Language and Literature Portuguese-English and a Bachelors degree in Literature with a specialization in Translation French and Italian both from São Paulo State University (UNESP, 2006 and 2010). From early on, he has built a trajectory distinguished by diverse knowledge and a critical commitment to writing that ethically engages with the Other. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Luso-Brazilian Santander Universities Scholarship, which enabled him to complete an academic exchange at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He later specialized in Advanced English Language Studies (UNESP, 2012) and, more recently, in Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History, Culture, and Literature (UNICESUMAR, 2023), deepening his engagement with dissident epistemologies, narratives of resistance, and decolonial knowledge practices. His academic path includes international certifications from South Africa (Cape Town, 2018 and 2019), Canada (Sherbrooke, 2022), and France (Lyon, 2015), where he earned the Certificat de Stage from the École Internationale de lAlliance Française. These experiences have fostered a sophisticated intercultural perspective and a critical sensitivity to the plurality of voices worldwide. He has served as coordinator of the English tutoring program for first-year Language and Literature undergraduates and as an instructor in the same subject. His academic internships and research cover both Linguistics, with a focus on Functional Grammar, and Literature, exploring intersections among identity, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, and social class. His work includes books, book chapters, academic articles, and poems published in various anthologies, notable for their theoretical acuity and poetic strength. He holds a masters and a doctorate in Theory and Literary Studies from UNESP (2019 and 2023), with intellectually rigorous research and internship periods at two distinguished Canadian universities: Concordia University (Montréal) and the University of Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke). This international experience solidified a critical, transnational, intersectional, and comparative approach to contemporary literature. Currently, he is a Collaborating Professor at the State University of the Midwest of Paraná (UNICENTRO) and a member of the Gender and Race Research Group at UNESP/IBILCE. Since 2019, publishing as DE MORAIS, Fernando Luís, he has authored Analítica quare: como ler o humano (2020), Diamantes negros sob um arco-íris multicolorido: as identidades negras-gay na poesia de Thomas Grimes (2023), and Literatura (d)e resistência: o grito aguerrido de escritores quare (2025). He also edited Decolonizando saberes interseccionados na literatura e na educação (2023). He has been a guest poet for Revista Bem-Estar, where his writing reflects a commitment to intertwining aesthetic sensitivity, conceptual depth, and political engagement. Committed to ongoing intellectual growth, he is currently enrolled in three simultaneous specialization programs at the Metropolitan Faculty of the State of São Paulo (FAMEESP): Semiotics and Discourse Analysis; Brazilian Literature in the Context of World Literature; and Portuguese Language: Writing and Oratory. These studies reaffirm his unwavering dedication to mastering language and to the art of expressing ideas with rigor, precision, and beauty. His main fields of interest and research include gender and sexuality studies, queer/quare theory, North American and Brazilian literatures, literatures in Portuguese and other modern foreign languages, minority literatures, social class in literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and cultural studies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)