João Nemi Neto

João Nemi Neto , Ph.D. (he, ele, él), is a senior lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University in New York where he teaches courses in Portuguese language, Brazilian cultures, queer theories and gender identities. Her research involves issues of efeminophobia and LGBTQAI+ representation on television and cinema. He also studies queer pedagogy, language and gender identities in foreign language teaching. His latest book is “Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema between 1970 and 2015” published in 2022 by Wayne State University Press. He is currently working on a new book about inclusive language and gender identities in the classroom. João is also a translator and writer. His most recent translation is “In the name of desire” by João Silvério Trevisan (Sundial, 2023) with Ben De Witte.

Publications

The Role of Language in Including LGBTQIA+ Identities in the Foreign Language Classroom
The Role of Language in Including LGBTQIA+ Identities in the Foreign Language Classroom
João Nemi Neto. © 2023. 19 pages.
For this chapter, the author intends to draw his ideas from feminist pedagogy (hooks, Korol, among others) and queer pedagogy (Britzman, Nemi Neto) in order to present a possible...