Bárbara Simões

PhD, Comparative Literature

Bárbara Inês Ribeiro Simões Daibert

is a Brazilian writer and an associate professor of literatures in English at Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in Brazil. She is also a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. She writes and speaks about literature, religion and history, and her research primarily focuses on decoloniality, racial theory, and postcolonial studies. She has extensive experience in research on traumatic memory and theories of diaspora. Her work also addresses slavery and subalternity, African American and Black Canadian studies, Latinx-Canadian literature, and Afro-diasporic studies.

She has co-edited two books on the African diaspora and is now focusing on transnational ethnicities in Canadian studies, Latinx-Canadian studies, and the dialogue between postcolonial and decolonial scholarship.

Dr. Simões is an associate researcher at the Human Rights and Business Centre (HOMA), coordinating research on human rights violations by businesses and migration, and the impact of those violations on Latin America.