Brazilian & Lusophone Studies

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Brazilian and Lusophone Studies examine the cultures and literatures of Portuguese-speaking peoples from regions that include the countries of Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe.  Research in the department interprets narratives, poetry, theater, and film of the Lusophone world with focuses on national and social identities, Indigenous cultural production, immigrant experiences, cross-cultural dialogues, gender, and memory studies. 

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Personnel

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

Professor of Latin American Cultures and Literatures

Mexican Narrative, Disaster Studies, Latin American Ecocriticism, the Total Novel 

 

Associate Professor

Lesley Feracho

Associate Professor of Spanish

Dr. Feracho specializes in contemporary Latin American narrative and in particular women's narrative of the Caribbean, as well as Afro-Latin American narrative and poetry. Her current research involves cross-cultural literary texts (in both narrative and poetry) of women writers of African descent from the Americas (both Spanish-speaking and…

Chad Howe

Chad Howe

Professor

Some Current Projects:

Grammaticalization and language change in Romance Languages Language variation and change in social media Incipient Language Shift in a Southern Latino Community Indigenous Languages in Latin America: Contact, Shift, and Maintenance

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Cris Lira

Supervisor, Portuguese

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Robert Moser

Associate Professor of Portuguese

Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literature and culture

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Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues

Associate Professor of Portuguese

Contemporary Brazilian Literature, prose fiction of the 21st century, narratives of displacement, and the construction of Brazilian national identities.

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