Lourdes Teodoro (born 4 June 1946) is an Afro-Brazilian academic, writer, poet, and psychoanalyst who studies the effects of colonization on identity.

Maria de Lourdes Teodoro was born on 4 June 1946 in Vila Couros, Goiás, Brazil. In 1958, with the founding of Brasilia, her family relocated there, where she completed her secondary education.^[1] From her youth, she began publishing poems in student journals and newspapers, including Correio Braziliense, and with a group of other students published the Antologia de Alunos Escritores do Elefante Branco (Anthology of Student Writers of the White Elephant) in 1966.^[2] After graduating from the University of Brasília^[3] with a degree in literature, she began teaching French and Literature at Centro Universitário de Brasília. In 1980, she began work on a doctorate at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris on Comparative Literature,^[1] graduating in 1984 with a dissertation entitled Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Antillian and Brazilian identities through the works of Aimé Césaire and Mário de Andrade).^[4] The work, like many of her tracts, evaluates the effects of slavery and racism on Afro-Brazilians.^[5]

After returning to Brazil, Teodoro taught as an adjunct Professor at the Arts Institute of the University of Brasilia.^[6] In 1991 she began offering lectures in Africa, participating in seminars in Angola and Senegal. She helped with the founding of the Institute of Black Peoples in Burkino Faso, ^[7] before moving to the United States. In 1996 Teodoro began graduate studies at Harvard University in African-American studies and psychoanalysis,^[6][8] which she completed in 1998. Her post-doctoral internship in childhood and adolescence psychopathology was completed at the psychiatry clinic of the University Hospital of Brasilia.

Teodoro currently conducts academic research at the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-brasileiras (Institute for Research and Afro Brazilian Studies) in Rio de Janeiro^[6] and is practicing psychoanalyst. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and an associate member of the Brasilia Psychoanalytic Society.^[3]

• with Heleno, Guido, Carlos Pontes, Reginaldo Fontele, et al., Antologia de Alunos Escritores do Elefante Branco (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil. 1966.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^[2]
• Água-marinha ou Tempo sem palavra (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil: Distribuição, Livraria Galilei. 1978.
• "Dialogue". Présence Africaine (in French). 123 (3). Paris, France: 121. September 1982. ISSN 0032-7638.
• ""Moi, laminaire" ou la force de regarder demain... Vu du Brésil". Présence Africaine (in French). 126 (2). Paris, France: 24–26. June 1983. doi:10.3917/presa.126.0024. ISSN 0032-7638.
• Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Ph.D.) (in French). Paris, France: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. 1984.
• Fricote, swing: ensaio sócio-antropológico em ritmo de jazz (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brasil: Thesaurus Editora. 1986.
• with Bruce, Iain, "The Generation of Fear". The Black Scholar. 19 (4–5). San Francisco, California: Routledge: 51. July 1988. ISSN 0006-4246. Also in Margaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, pp. 281–283, ISBN 0-224-03592-4.
• Flores de Goiás (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brasil: Autorin. 1994. ISBN 978-85-900102-1-0.
• Paysage en attente (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil: Autorin. 1995. ISBN 978-8-590-01022-7.
• Canções do mais belo incesto e poemas antigos (in Portuguese). Brasília, Brasil: Autorin. 1996.
• Modernisme brésilien et négritude antillaise: Mário de Andrade et Aimé Césaire (in French). Paris, France: Harmattan. 1999. ISBN 978-2-738-48027-9.
• Identidade Cultural e Diversidade Étnica – Négritude Africano-Antilhana e Modernismo Brasileiro (in Portuguese). Scortecci Editora, 2015. ISBN 978-85-366-4434-9.
• Identidades Culturais e Négritude Antilhana: Prática em Literatura Compartilhada (in Portuguese). Scortecci Editora, 2015. ISBN 978-85-366-4130-0.

• Brito, Walter Gualberto de (2006). Memórias de uma família negra brasileira: os inquilinos da casa amarela (in Portuguese). Brasilia, Brasil: Thesaurus Editora. ISBN 978-85-7062-575-5.
• Teodoro, Maria de Lourdes (1984). Identités antillaise et brésilienne à travers les oeuvres d'Aimé Césaire et de Mario de Andrade (Ph.D.) (in French). Paris, France: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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