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Department of Linguistics +1 (703) 785-4697
Georgetown University fld11@georgetown.edu
1421 37th Street NW @felipezeroh
Washington, DC, USA
FELIPE LEANDRO DE JESUS
CURRICULUM VITAE • JULY 2020
employment Georgetown University
Graduate teaching/research assistant, Department of Linguistics
Aug. 2017 – present
Washington, DC
Emory University
Fulbright Visiting Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Aug. 2015 – May 2016
Atlanta, Georgia
Federal University of Santa Catarina
EFL Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages
Graduate Teaching Assistant
April 2011 – July 2015
March 2017 – July 2017
Florianópolis, Brazil
education Georgetown University – Washington, DC
- Doctor of Philosophy in Sociolinguistics
In progress
Georgetown University – Washington, DC
- Master of Science in Linguistics
May 2019
Federal University of Santa Catarina – Florianópolis, Brazil
- Master of Arts in Linguistic Studies, summa cum laude
- Thesis title: Beatin’ the queer into the broadsheets: A semiotic
analysis on crimes involving queer social actors
Aug. 2015
Federal University of Santa Catarina – Florianópolis, Brazil
- Bachelor of Arts in English Language & Literature, summa cum
laude
- Thesis title: Screening the unspeakable: The construction of
gender/sex roles and same-sex role in Brokeback Mountain
Dec. 2013
publications &
presentations
Papers
JESUS, F. L. In preparation. “Oh like you’re a woman”: Representations of knowledge as
positioning devices in narratives of personal experience told by a drag queen.
JESUS, F. L. In preparation. Dialogism in the media: Heteroglossia and representations of
social actors in news reports about the Brazilian National High School Exam (ENEM).
JESUS, F. L. In preparation. The discursive construction of bisexuality as incriminating
evidence in news reports.
JESUS, F. L. & CALDAS-COULTHARD, C. R. (2018). Abjection and condemnation: Media
representations of a transgender criminal in Brazil. Gender and Language, 12(3), 372-397.