Christopher Larkosh

Christopher Larkosh (1964–2020) was a professor of Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth, where he researched and tought in the areas of Portuguese-to-English translation, contemporary Brazilian literature, and literary and cultural theory, including queer theory, which he taught as a guest professor at the National University of Mar del Plata in Argentina. Aside from translating Wilson Bueno, João Gilberto Noll, and other queer Brazilian authors, he was instrumental in advancing research in queer translation studies internationally.