Welcoming CLACS Cogut Visiting Professor Jamille Pinheiro Dias

August 26, 2024

CLACS extends a warm welcome to CLACS Cogut Visiting Professor Jamille Pinheiro Dias. This fall, Dr. Pinheiro Dias will be teaching LACA/POBS 1601Y: Indigenous Arts and Activism in Brazil. She will be co-teaching this course alongside Leila Lehnen, Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

Jamille Pinheiro Dias is the director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the co-director of the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the University of London, where she also works as a Lecturer. She was previously a von der Heyden Fellow and an affiliate faculty member at the Franklin Humanities Institute's Amazon Lab at Duke University. Prior to working in London, she was a Research Associate at the University of Manchester as part of the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America, funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her studies involve the environmental humanities, Amazonian cultural production, Indigenous arts, and translation studies in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil.