Gleisson Alves Santos is a translator, educator and researcher who engages with these practices through an artistic and interdisciplinary approach. He is a second year MFA student in Literary Translation, translating from and into Portuguese, and a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. One of his translation works into English involves a body of contemporary poems by Afro-Brazilian poets. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, he has been teaching courses such as Intermediate Portuguese and Brazilian Narrative in Translation.