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Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
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 | Onésimo T. Almeida
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
Professor Almeida is presently completing a volume on theoretical issues related to the topic of national identity, as well as another collection of essays on science in the 16th-century Portugal. Both volumes will be published by Gradiva, in Lisbon, Portugal. He is also revising for publication two collections of essays on Azorean and on Portuguese-American themes to be published by the Institute of European Studies of University of California at Berkeley. |  | Jorge Flores
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
History, Department of
Jorge Flores's research focuses on the political, social and cultural history of the Portuguese empire during the early modern period. He is particularly interested in the interaction between the Portuguese society and extra-European cultures, as well as in the formation of cross-cultural images and representations. His main field of expertise is the Portuguese expansion in Asia 1500-1800, and he works with Portuguese and other Western materials of the period to approach the history of South Asia. | | | George Monteiro
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
|  | Leonor Simas-Almeida
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
Dr. Simas-Almeida's teaching and research cover different periods and different genres of Portuguese literature. However, her work is more particularly centered on narrative fiction and, lately, it has been reflecting a strong interest in a poetics of reading rooted in affect (although not excluding other compatible approaches), which inform all of her most recently published papers. Having started by applying her focus on "intelligent emotions" to 19th century narrative and to comparative literature (her primary field of scholarship), she has extended her theoretical framework both to 20th century Portuguese fiction and to African lusophone literature. | | | Patricia Sobral
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
Dr. Patricia Sobral's teaching and research interests include: 1. intersection of the arts and second language acquisition 2. Brazilian literature of the 20th century; 3. contemporary Brazilian cinema; 4. comparative literature, particularly texts of immigration and exile. |  | Luiz Fernando Valente
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
Professor Valente's teaching and research interests include: 1. Brazilian narrative of the 19th and 20th centuries; 2. the relationship of fiction and history; 3. the construction of national identity and the representation of the nation; 4. comparative literature, particularly the modern historical novel and the literature of the Americas; 5. theory of literature, particularly the narrative; 6. Brazilian poetry since 1945. |  | Nelson H. Vieira
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Department of
Professor Vieira's teaching and research interests include: 1. Brazilian narrative of the late 19th and 20th- centuries with special focus on contemporary urban fiction; 2. Brazilian and Latin American Jewish writing; 3. Brazilian autobiographical fiction; 4. ethnicity and the question of identity; 4. diaspora and cultural studies; 5. gender and literary theory; 6. modernist and postmodernist theories; 7. Brazilian short fiction; 8. literary translation |
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