Patrícia Lino (1990) is a poet, an essayist, a performer, a translator and Associate Professor of poetry and visual arts at UCLA. Among her books, videopoems, translations, performances, talk-performances and sound experiences are, for instance, Pequenas Glórias (Círculo de Poemas, 2026), RUMOR (2025), Todo poema é um kindergarten (talk-performance, 2025), I Am a Poet, I Was a Starling (performance, 2025), Imperativa Ensaística Diabólica. Infraleituras da Poesia Expandida Brasileira (Relicário Edições, 2024), O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (Círculo de Poemas, 2024), A Ilha das Afeições (Círculo de Poemas, 2023), Barriga ao Alto (Macondo, 2023) or Vibrant Hands (short film, 2019). Lino’s work has been published and presented in more than 10 countries. Her current research focuses on contemporary poetry, intermediality, visual culture, literary parody, and film. http://patricialino.com.

Education

  • Ph.D. (2018) Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • M.A. (2013) Literary, Cultural, and Inter-artistic Studies, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.
  • B.A. (2011) Classics, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.

Research

Twentieth-century and twentieth-first-century poetry

Intermedial poetry and intermedial thinking

Afro-Luso-Brazilian literatures and visual arts

Mythological literary remakes

Afro-Luso-Brazilian film

Anticolonialism and post-colonial studies

Literary parody

Creative and uncreative writing

Poetry and illustration

Articles

Updated CV at https://www.patricialino.com/cv.

Courses

(Undergraduate class) IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURES
Structured around two core areas—visual poetry and cinema—this course engages with a diverse array of poetic and cinematic works by figures including Cesário Verde, Patrícia Galvão, Alexandre O’Neill, Lygia Clark, Ulises Carrión, Luis Pazos, Lenora de Barros, Damián Szifron, Jorge Furtado, and Albertina Carri.

(Graduate Seminar) AVANT-GARDE POETRY: BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL
Drawing on the work of a wide range of Portuguese and Brazilian authors and artists—including Luís Aranha, Cesário Verde, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Julieta Barbara, Ana Hatherly, Melo e Castro, Salette Tavares, Augusto de Campos, Ferreira Gullar, and Aline Motta—AVANT-GARDE: BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL pursues three principal objectives: (a) to examine the intermedial evolution of modern poetry throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Portugal and Brazil through the analysis and critical reassessment of works associated with major avant-garde movements, including Modernism, Concrete Poetry, PO.EX, Neo-Concrete Poetry, and Poema/Processo; (b) to foster the creation of infraleituras (“infra-readings”), a novel form of expanded, performative, and anti-colonial essayism that unfolds through the extension of the essayist’s own embodied capacities; and (c) to investigate the enduring influence of these avant-garde traditions on contemporary poetic practices in Portugal and Brazil.

(Graduate Seminar) WAY-OUT AND MULTI-TONGUED ESSAYS ON POETS FROM THE AMERICAS
A series of collective, creative, and conceptual engagements with American poetry, organized around themes that recur across cultural traditions and continue to captivate, challenge, and unsettle poets. These themes include the burden of literary tradition; the obsessive and often playful metalanguage of poetry; homoerotic desire and affection; mortality; poetry’s dialogue with other artistic forms; and the representation of animals. Readings draw on a diverse range of authors, including Frank O’Hara, Anne Carson, Pat Parker, Nicanor Parra, Augusto de Campos, Gary Snyder, Susana Thénon, Cristina Peri Rossi, Danez Smith, Rocío Cerón, and Marília Garcia.
Alongside close reading and critical discussion, students are invited to produce, on a weekly basis, original recreations of selected literary objects inspired by the texts under consideration. Classes and course materials are conducted and read in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, fostering a multilingual and transnational approach to the study of poetry.

(Graduate Seminar) EXPANDED BRAZILIAN POETRY
Drawing on the interdisciplinary and intermedial study of a range of Brazilian authors and artists—including Luís Aranha, Oswald de Andrade, Pagu, Julieta Barbara, Augusto de Campos, Ferreira Gullar, and Álvaro and Neide de Sá—EXPANDED BRAZILIAN POETRY is structured around three central propositions: (a) the development of infraleituras (“infra-readings”), a novel form of expanded, performative, and anti-colonial essayism that unfolds through the extension of the essayist’s embodied faculties; (b) an exploration of the convergence between intermediality and the anthropophagic paradigm in the formation and evolution of the Brazilian literary avant-garde; and (c) the critical reassessment of the hybrid status of both canonical and neglected works, foregrounding their aesthetic, material, and medial complexity.
Through close engagement with a diverse corpus of texts and artistic practices, the course examines how Brazilian avant-garde traditions challenge conventional understandings of literature, authorship, and cultural transmission, while opening new avenues for poetic and critical experimentation.

(Undergraduate Class) LATIN AMERICAN FILM THROUGH (RE)CREATION
Students are invited not only to engage in the collective analysis and discussion of landmark works of Latin American cinema, but also to explore their aesthetic, thematic, and formal dimensions through creative reinterpretation and artistic practice. The course combines critical inquiry with experimental production, encouraging students to investigate how cinematic languages can be reimagined across different media and contexts.
Among the filmmakers whose works will be studied, discussed, and creatively reworked are Luis Buñuel, Glauber Rocha, Sara Gómez, Lucrecia Martel, Raoul Peck, Cristina Gallego, and Tatiana Huezo. Through close attention to their distinctive approaches to narrative, image, sound, politics, and representation, students will develop a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary significance of Latin American cinema while cultivating their own creative responses to its traditions and innovations.

(Undergraduate Class) AFRO-LUSO-BRAZILIAN CINEMA AND SHORT FILMMAKING
AFRO-LUSO-BRAZILIAN CINEMA AND SHORT FILMMAKING offers an introduction to key expressions of decolonial, feminist, queer, Black, and Indigenous political resistance across the Afro-Luso-Brazilian world through the study of a diverse range of cinematic works. The course engages with major filmmakers, critical concepts, and theoretical frameworks that have shaped Afro-Luso-Brazilian cinema, situating film as a powerful medium of cultural memory, political intervention, and aesthetic experimentation.
Alongside the close analysis of selected films, students acquire the technical vocabulary and analytical tools necessary for the study of cinema, including camera framing and angles, editing and montage, focus and movement, mise-en-scène, lighting, and sound. Particular attention is given to the ways in which formal cinematic choices intersect with questions of race, gender, sexuality, coloniality, and resistance.
As a central component of the course, students produce an original short film employing the techniques explored throughout the quarter. This practical engagement fosters a deeper appreciation of the creative, technical, and conceptual complexities involved in filmmaking, while encouraging students to reflect critically on the aesthetic and political dimensions of the cinematic works under study.

(Graduate Seminar) PLURIVERSAL UNIVERSES. POETRY AND THE EMPATHETIC CANON
Drawing on postcolonial and Amerindian conceptions of empathy—understood as a practice that challenges hierarchical distinctions among forms of life and embodied existence—this course examines the cultural and institutional mechanisms through which the traditional literary canon has been established, legitimized, and naturalized. At the same time, it explores the emergence of new, decolonized thematic and aesthetic horizons within contemporary Afro-Luso-Brazilian poetry.
Particular attention is given to the intersections between ecological, racial, gendered, and queer forms of representation. The course investigates how the growing poetic engagement with plants, animals, and non-human forms of life is intertwined with an increasing commitment to articulating Afro-descendant, feminine, and queer experiences in both Brazil and Portugal. These developments are considered in relation to broader questions of visuality, appropriation and non-originality, performance, and experimental artistic practice.
Readings and artistic materials include works by Oswald de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Patrícia Galvão, Maria Esther Maciel, Ana Martins Marques, Adília Lopes, and Judith Teixeira, alongside a range of avant-garde poets and artists such as Augusto de Campos, Ana Hatherly, Lygia Clark, Wlademir Dias-Pino, Neide de Sá, and Moacy Cirne. Through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together literary studies, visual culture, performance, and decolonial thought, the course invites students to reconsider the boundaries of the human, the literary, and the political in contemporary poetic expression.

(Graduate Seminar) WRITERS DON’T GO TO HEAVEN. PRACTICES OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE WRITING
This seminar explores the intersections of academic writing, creative writing, and uncreative writing through a combination of theoretical inquiry and practical experimentation. Organized around key concepts such as the essay, the poem, authorship, and appropriation, the course invites students to examine the formal, rhetorical, and conceptual dimensions of diverse modes of writing while developing their own critical and creative practices.
Through a series of writing exercises, workshops, and discussions, students are encouraged to test the possibilities and limits of different genres, gaining firsthand experience with their distinctive communicative strategies, aesthetic conventions, and intellectual aims. Particular attention is given to the ways in which contemporary literary and scholarly practices challenge conventional distinctions between originality and reuse, criticism and creation, research and artistic production.
The seminar also provides sustained training in academic and public presentation. Students are invited to present their scholarly and creative projects while becoming familiar with a range of professional formats, including conference papers, classroom lectures, book talks, and job talks. Complementing these activities, guest speakers from both academic and literary fields offer practical insights into diverse presentation styles, communicative techniques, and professional practices, providing students with valuable models for navigating scholarly and artistic contexts.

(Graduate Seminar) THE OBSESSIONS OF MODERN LUSO-BRAZILIAN POETS
THE OBSESSIONS OF MODERN LUSO-BRAZILIAN POETS examines, from a postcolonial perspective, a series of recurring concerns that have shaped Portuguese and Brazilian poetry throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while also attending to the distinctive ways in which these concerns manifest themselves within each national context. By tracing both convergences and divergences across the Luso-Brazilian literary sphere, the course offers a nuanced understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic forces that continue to inform contemporary poetic production.
Among the central themes explored are the notion of uselessness—and the possibility of deriving pleasure, freedom, or resistance from it—the construction and destabilization of identity, the tensions between interdisciplinary and medium-specific poetic practices, the modern reinvention of Greco-Roman antiquity, and the varied functions of humor within poetic discourse. Although these concerns extend beyond the Portuguese-speaking world, they occupy a particularly significant place in the development of modern and contemporary Luso-Brazilian poetics.
Through close engagement with a diverse corpus of texts, the course investigates how poets have mobilized these themes to rethink questions of subjectivity, tradition, artistic form, and cultural belonging. In doing so, it illuminates the intellectual and aesthetic preoccupations that have animated some of the most influential poetic movements and experiments in Portugal and Brazil over the past century.