@article{bibcite_151,
  keywords = {pedagogy, feminism, literature, confluence},
  author = {Pedro Meira Monteiro and Tatiane Rangel},
  title = {Still They Rise in the Classroom},
  abstract = {<p>This article examines Still They Rise: Gender, Bodies, and Writing in Brazil and Beyond, a co-taught advanced Portuguese course that approached language and literature as a single act of world-making. Grounded in feminist, decolonial, and queer epistemologies, the course proposed tension and confluence \&nbsp;as \&nbsp;guiding \&nbsp;principles \&nbsp;in \&nbsp;the \&nbsp;classroom,by \&nbsp;bringing \&nbsp;bodies, \&nbsp;genres, \&nbsp;and \&nbsp;histories \&nbsp;to \&nbsp;the forefront, tounsettle canonical boundaries while cultivating collective forms of listening. We reflect on how these principles shaped the syllabus {\textendash}pairing authors who rarely inhabit the same frame {\textendash}and how our guests wove their voices into our trajectory. In practice, a discussion-circle format and student-led \&nbsp;sessions \&nbsp;shifted \&nbsp;authority \&nbsp;laterally, \&nbsp;turning \&nbsp;reading \&nbsp;into \&nbsp;a \&nbsp;shared \&nbsp;act. \&nbsp;The \&nbsp;final \&nbsp;assignments translated these dialogues into materiality throughtranslation, textiles, performance, and photography, exemplified here by a student{\textquoteright}s diorama-house that reimagined a series of rooms {\textquotedblleft}of one{\textquoteright}s own{\textquotedblright} as a collective, \&nbsp;intersectional \&nbsp;home. Eventually, \&nbsp;we \&nbsp;argue \&nbsp;that \&nbsp;teaching \&nbsp;Brazilian \&nbsp;and \&nbsp;Latin \&nbsp;American literature \&nbsp;abroad \&nbsp;can build epistemic \&nbsp;and \&nbsp;affective \&nbsp;bridges, \&nbsp;transforming \&nbsp;reading \&nbsp;into \&nbsp;a \&nbsp;practice \&nbsp;of relation and enabling students to thinkthrough difference and encounter.</p>},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Revista de Letras JU{\c C}ARA},
  volume = {10},
  chapter = {22},
  pages = {22-41},
  month = {07/2026},
  url = {https://ppg.revistas.uema.br/index.php/jucara/article/view/4292},
  doi = {10.18817/rlj.v10i01.4292},
}