Krista Brune

Krista Brune is an Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at The Pennsylvania State University. She specializes in modern and contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature, with a focus on translation, visual/popular cultures, and intellectual history. Her research explores Brazilian literary and cultural history within hemispheric and transatlantic frameworks.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (Luso-Brazilian Track), University of California, Berkeley
• M.A. in Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
• A.B. in Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University

Research interests include Brazilian literature and culture, Global Lusophone Studies, Hemispheric American Studies, translation, and colonialism's impact on urban spaces. She co-edited Listening to Others: Eduardo Coutinho’s Documentary Cinema (2024) and authored Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas (2020).

Her recent articles address themes like Japanese migration in Brazil, surrealist influences in modernism, and urban multilingualism. Current projects include studying global Lusophone cities and Latin American cultural policies.

Awards include the Fulbright Grant (2007) and the Dorothy W. Gilpatrick Fellowship (2021–2023). She has been a visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo and directs Penn State’s Global and International Studies program. Grants include participation in the Redesigning Modernities project (2020–2021).

Teaching and outreach: She organizes cultural events for the Portuguese program and teaches courses on Luso-Brazilian cinema and commodity cultures.