With two PH.Ds at Federal University of Santa Catarina, one in Linguistics (2007) and a second one in Interdisciplinary Studies (2018), Cristine G Severo has conquered experience conducting university-based research on the topics of colonial linguistics, language policy, African languages and resistance. Some of the works supervised by her include the political role played by Portuguese and local languages in colonial era in African and Asian Portuguese former colonies. Several publications have resulted from these supervised works and from personal and collective research. Since 2010 her research has focused on how languages can help us to understand colonialism, power relation and struggles for independence in former Portuguese colonies. She also pursues and prioritizes a critical perspective, which means to make an intellectual effort to submit what we understand as language to collective and moving modes of historical existence. Her research experience include both individual research of primary sources in Portuguese and Spanish language related to colonization, and collective research towards a comparative perspective involving colonial experience and forms of resistance though language. Collective research includes joint work with Angolan and Mozambican researchers.
