Jess Oliveira is Assistant Professor of Literature and a member of NetIndiAfro (Cluster of TransInterdisciplinary Indigenous, African, and Africana Studies) at the Federal University of Bahia. She coordinates the research project Between Lines and Borders: Black German Literature, In(ter)disciplinarity and African Diasporic Connections, focusing on African diasporic literature and thought in translation. In 2020, she was nominated for the Jabuti Award in Translation. Her translations include works by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Dionne Brand, Josephine Apraku, bell hooks, May Ayim, Denise Carrascosa, and Leda Maria Martins, among others.

As of October 2025