Translator of over 30 books, including titles published in the US by the University of North Carolina Press and Cambridge University Press My translation of Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (NCP) won the 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award in the United States. Over 25 years of experience. Native-speaker of English (British national educated in the UK and US) with native-speaker level Brazilian Portuguese. PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). MA in Latin American Studies and BA in English (Summa cum Laude) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).