Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação lectures in English language poetry and edits the e-journal Almatroz at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. At the moment, she is a visiting scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches Portuguese and does research. Her current project involves tracing the intercultural dialogues between Concrete Poets in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Viviane has completed her Ph.D. at University of São Paulo and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her thesis, Exile, home and city: the poetic architecture of Belfast, was shortlisted as one of the best theses of the year 2012 at the University of São Paulo. A book version of her work will be available in March 2015. She also has published articles on Concrete Poetry and translations of Northern Irish poets, such as Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.
