Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Brown University
M.A., Comparative Literature, Brown University
M.A., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
M.A., Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo
Graduate Diploma, Higher Education Methodology, Faculdade de Educação da Bahia
Licenciatura, English (undergraduate degree with emphasis on teaching) , Universidade Federal da Bahia
B.A., English (Letras), Universidade Federal da Bahia
Publications
Books:
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, October 2016.
Brazil – Latin America in Focus. ABC – CLIO / Greenwood (Publisher) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC – CLIO / Greenwood (Publisher), December 2015: 403 p. Nations in Focus. Co-edited with Eduardo de Faria Coutinho.
Luso-American Literature: Writings by Portuguese-speaking Authors in North America. Rutgers University Press, July 2011. Co-edited with Robert H. Moser.
Selected Essays:
“Immigration, Transnationalism, and Transmigration in Grandma Has a Video Camera.” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures (Indiana University) 1.1 (Fall 2016). Forthcoming: 74-92.
“Fictional and Everyday Violence: Brazilian Audience as an Interpretive Community of Brazilian Cinema.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Canada: The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies) 38/1 (2013): 17-34.
“The Other as Self or Other? “Latinidade” and the Politics of Identification in Brazuca Novels.” Gávea-Brown (Brown University – Providence, RI, USA) XXXIV-XXXV.2012-2013 (2012): 301-322.
“Modern and Postcolonial? Oswald de Andrade’s Antropofagia and the Politics of Labeling.” Romance Notes 51.2 (2011): 217-26.
“Lyrics and Voice: Resistance and Citizenship in the Songs of Ilê Aiyê and Olodum.” Afro-Hispanic Review (Vanderbilt University) 29.2 (Summer 2011): 175-94.
“Scribere Est Agere ou O Direito ao Grito: O Intelectual Oprimido e a Hora do Subalterno em A Hora da Estrela.” Revista Iberoamericana. 75.226 (Jan./Mar. 2009): 243-260.
“American Dream, Jeitinho Brasileiro: On the Crossroads of Cultural Identities in Brazilian-American Literature.” Companion to Latino Literature in the United States. Ed. Carlota Caulfield, Ed. Darién Davis. London: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. 140-157.
“Is there a Brazilian-American Cinema? Aesthetics and Identity in A Fronteira and Nailed.” The Other Latinos: Central and South Americans in the United States. Ed. José Antonio Mazzotti, Ed. José Luis Falconi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 257-284. DRCLAS Series.
“Uma In(ter)venção da Memória: A Universalização do Particular na Poesia Histórica de Cora Coralina.” Cora Coralina: Celebração da Volta. Ed. Goiândira Ortiz Camargo, Ed. Darcy Denófrio. Goiânia: Cânone, December 2006. 15-35.
“Between Heaven and Hell: Perceptions of Brazil and the United States in Brazuca Literature.” HISPANIA 88.4 (Dec. 2005): 713-725.
“Além de Textos e Contextos: Língua Estrangeira, Poesia e Consciência Cultural Crítica.” Recortes Interculturais na Sala de Aula de Línguas Estrangeiras Ed. Kátia Mota, Ed. Denise Scheyerl. Salvador: EDUFBA (Federal University of Bahia Press), November 2004. 107-41.
“Latino, Eu? The Paradoxical Interplay of Identity in Brazuca Literature.” HISPANIA 87.3 (Sep. 2004): 576-585.
“Machado de Assis: A Obra Entreaberta.” Luso-Brazilian Review 41.1 (Jun. 2004): 37-55.
“Exchanging Glances: The Streetcar, Modernity, and the Metropolis in Brazilian Literature.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 32.2 (Nov. 2003): 35-52.
“Murmúrios textuais, históricos e pósmodernos em A costa dos murmúrios.” EPA. Estudos Portugueses e Africanos 41 (Jan./Jun. 2003): 71-87.
“O ‘Sublime’ Sertão em O Sertanejo, Os Sertões e Grande Sertão: Veredas.” Letras de Hoje 36.1 (Mar. 2001): 7-26.
“Laugh and Learn: Thinking Over the Funny Teacher Myth.” English Teaching Forum 39.1 (Jan. 2001): 26-29.
“Poetry? It’s Worth a Try!” English Teaching Forum 34.3-4 (1996): 62-63.
