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Brigitte Vasallo (Barcelona, 1973) is the daughter of a Galician peasant family expelled from the countryside. She doesn’t hold a university degree and she has done many jobs. She is currently dedicated to writing and research, focusing on the mechanisms of belonging and otherness, with special interest in sexual difference and the memory of the rural diaspora.

She is the current holder of the Mercè Rodoreda Chair of Catalan Studies at New York University (CUNY), and artist-in-residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome 2023-2024.

She has published PornoBurka (2013), Pensamiento Monógamo Terror Poliamoroso (Oveja Roja, 2017), Lenguaje Inclusivo y Exclusión de Clase (Larousse, 2021) and Tríptico del Silencio (La Oveja Roja, 2023), a work published in 3 simultaneous books in her three mother tongues. She collaborates with various media and has presented, as a playwright, Naxos, directed by Gena Baamonde and Un cuerpo (posible) y lesbiano, in collaboration with the visual artist Alba G Corral. She directed and commissioned the I Festival of “Charnega” Culture in Barcelona, as well as the III International Congress of Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies and has been an international advisor to the CES (Sociological Studies Center) at the University of Coimbra. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, and she teaches as a guest lecturer at universities that would not accept her as a student.

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Brigitte VASALLO

© Alba García Fijo

Brigitte Vasallo (Barcelona, 1973) is the daughter of a Galician peasant family expelled from the countryside. She doesn’t hold a university degree and she has done many jobs. She is currently dedicated to writing and research, focusing on the mechanisms of belonging and otherness, with special interest in sexual difference and the memory of the rural diaspora.

She is the current holder of the Mercè Rodoreda Chair of Catalan Studies at New York University (CUNY), and artist-in-residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome 2023-2024.

She has published PornoBurka (2013), Pensamiento Monógamo Terror Poliamoroso (Oveja Roja, 2017), Lenguaje Inclusivo y Exclusión de Clase (Larousse, 2021) and Tríptico del Silencio (La Oveja Roja, 2023), a work published in 3 simultaneous books in her three mother tongues. She collaborates with various media and has presented, as a playwright, Naxos, directed by Gena Baamonde and Un cuerpo (posible) y lesbiano, in collaboration with the visual artist Alba G Corral. She directed and commissioned the I Festival of “Charnega” Culture in Barcelona, as well as the III International Congress of Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies and has been an international advisor to the CES (Sociological Studies Center) at the University of Coimbra. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, and she teaches as a guest lecturer at universities that would not accept her as a student.