Frank F. Sousa, Ph.D.
Professor of Portuguese and Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies
Department of Cultural Studies
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Coburn Hall, 108
850 Broadway St.
Lowell, MA 01854
[email protected]
EDUCATION
1992
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1984
M.A. in Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1980
B.S. in Psychology, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2014-
Professor of Portuguese, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2004-2013
Professor of Portuguese, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD)
1997-2004
Associate Professor of Portuguese, UMD.
1990-1997
Assistant Professor of Portuguese, UMD.
1994-2006
Founding Director and Professor, Summer Program in Portuguese, UMD.
Summer 1998 Visiting Professor, Summer Graduate Seminar, Fundação Eça de Queiroz.
Summer 1993 Visiting Professor, University of the Azores.
1992
Visiting Professor, Summer Institute in Portuguese, UCSB.
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Monographs
1996
O segredo de Eça: Ideologia e ambiguidade em A cidade e as serras. Pref.
Carlos Reis. Lisbon: Edições Cosmos.
Books as General Editor of the Portuguese in the Americas Series, Tagus Press,
partner of the University Press of New England
2013
Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir by Joseph A. Conforti.
Land as far as the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West by Donald
Warrin and Geoffrey Gomes. 2nd ed.
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2012
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2010
Land of Milk and Money by Anthony Barcellos.
So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927, by
Donald Warrin.
Books as General Editor of Adamastor Series, Tagus Press, partner of the University
Press of New England
2012
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Maiden and Modest (1563), by Bernardim Ribeiro, trans. Gregory Rabassa.
The Relic (1887), by Eça de Queirós. Preface by Harold Bloom, trans.
Aubrey Bell.
2011
The Correspondence of Fradique Mendes (1900), by Eça de Queirós, trans.
Gregory Rabassa.
Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
2014
“De ‘Uns braços’ a ‘Missa do Galo’ ou Machado na ambiguidade.” Machado
de Assis: ensaios e revisões. Ed. João Cezar de Castro Rocha. São Paulo:
Alameda Casa Editorial, 563-79. [at press]
2012
“Hybrid Identity and the Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of
Alfred Lewis.” Gávea/Brown Vol. XXXIV (2012): 70-91.
COLLOQUIA COORDINATED/CO-COORDINATED (selected)
2009
The Portuguese Renaissance and the Brazilian Baroque: A Colloquium on
Three New Books. Library of Congress, November 13, 2009. Co-organized
with Victor K. Mendes.
2007
“Escrita da Vida—Vida da Escrita: A Conversation with four PortugueseAmerican Writers,” in partnership with the Massachusetts Foundation for the
Humanities, September 22, 2007, at the John F. Kennedy Library.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2014-
Director, Center for Portuguese Studies, UMass Lowell.
2000-2002
Founder and Chair, Department of Portuguese, UMD.
1998-2013
Co-Founder and Director/Publisher, Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies,
1996-2013
Founder and Director of Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, UMD.
1994-2006
Founder and Director of Summer Program in Portuguese, UMD.
2005-2009
Proposed and led effort to establish Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American
Archives, UMD.
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LECTURES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)
2013
“Taking Stock of Portuguese-American Literature: Successes and
Challenges.” Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in Interdisciplinary and
Comparative Perspectives: An International Conference. Butler University,
July 25-27.
2012
“A Atividade Editorial da Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth.” 5º
Encontro Internacional Conexões Itaú Cultural, Instituto Itaú Cultural,
São Paulo, Brazil, November 20-24.
“Alfred Lewis and the Portuguese-American Experience.” Disquiet:
Dzanc Books International Writers’ Workshop. Luso-American
Foundation. July 5.
“Os Romances de Alfred Lewis e Identidade Dupla Luso-Americana.”
Colóquio Internacional.: O Faial e a Periferia Açoriana nos Séculos XV
a XX: Horta, Azores. May 17-21.
FELLOWSHIPS
1995
Fulbright Fellowship, Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal.
1989-90
Fulbright Fellowship in Lisbon, Portugal. Project: Dissertation research
under direction of Prof. Carlos Reis of the Universidade de Coimbra.
HONORS (selected)
2010
Medalha de Mérito. Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, June 1.
2000
Educator of the Year Award. PALCUS (Portuguese American Leadership Council of the
United States).
President’s Community Service Award. University of Massachusetts.
1996
Comendador da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique Award, Government of Portugal.
1995
Commendation, State of Massachusetts. Portuguese Heritage Day. June 8.
MAJOR GRANTS AND ENDOWMENTS (selected)
2012
$106,000 for Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture (UMD).
2008
$180,000 for Portuguese-American Newspaper Digitization Project from the
Government of the Azores and private donors (UMD).
2005
$1.5 million Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives Endowment.
2001
$1.5 million Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed
Chair in Portuguese Studies.
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2000
$200,000 Endowment for Department of Portuguese from Luso-American Foundation.
1998
$400,000 Endowment for Center for Portuguese Studies from Foreign Ministry
of Portugal.
1997
$575,000 from the Luso-American Development Foundation for for
Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture.