Curriculum Vitae
Marcio Bahia
Personal Data
1) Full name: Marcio de Oliveira Bahia
2) Date of Birth: 06 March 1975
3) Place of Birth: Belém, Pará, Brazil.
4) Nationality: Brazilian
5) Citizenship: Brazilian
6) Contact: [email protected] Cell phone: 615-6302107. Work phone: 615-3226857.
Current address: 97 White Bridge Road, apt. F8, Nashville – TN, 37205.
Education
2011 Ph.D., Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa
Thesis: “From Global Entertainment to Amazonian Tecnobrega: Mobility in Contemporary
Entertainment Practices”.
2004 M.A., Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa
Thesis: “The concepts americanidad, américanité and americanidade: peripheral perspectives”
2001 B.A. French Language and Literature Teaching, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Work experience
1995-1996
English Instructor – Mnemo System, Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais - Brazil.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
1996-2003
English Instructor – Inglês & Cia., Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais - Brazil Teaching
English as a Foreign Language.
1998-2003
Pedagogical Director – Inglês & Cia, Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais – Brazil.
Teacher training and hiring, choosing textbooks, making exams, pedagogical
assistance to a large body of students (about 3,000), coordinating a group of about 50
teachers of different languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Italian).
2003-2009
Research Assistant – Canada Research in Literary and Cultural Transfers, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada. Organization of international conferences, implementing electronic
courses on virtual campus, evaluation, purchase and maintenance of new
technological equipment, participation in regular academic workshops.
2003-2009
Part-time Professor (Portuguese) – Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures, University of Ottawa. Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language,
making exams, assistance to students, organization of extra-curricular activities,
syllabus preparation.
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2009 – 2011
Senior Lecturer of Portuguese – Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt
University. Teaching Brazilian Culture and Portuguese as a Foreign Language,
making exams, assistance to students, organization of extra-curricular activities,
syllabus preparation.
2009 – present Assistant Professor of Portuguese – Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Vanderbilt University. Research on Brazilian Culture and Literature. Areas of
interest: cultural studies, contemporary entertainment industries, mobility studies,
Amazonian literature. Teaching Portuguese and Brazilian Culture.
Academic Activities
1) Participation in Congresses *:
a) American Folklore Society – Annual Meeting. Paper: Purists Out: Cultural Hybridity,
Anthropophagy and the Real Maravilloso at the Ver-o-peso Market, Nashville – TN - 2010
b) Second Annual Symposium on Teaching and Technology, University of Ottawa. Paper:
Sensorial immersion in the language classroom: using new technologies to teach language and
culture – 2009.
c) Journée d’Études, “(An)amnesia Movies”, University of Ottawa. Paper: Cinematic
Representations of the Misleading Memory – 2008.
d) International Association of Comparative Literature Congress, Rio de Janeiro. Paper: Lezama
Lima e o conceito de americanidade – 2007.
e) International Conference “Brazil-Canada: Cultural Mobilities”, Belo Horizonte. Paper: A
mobilidade cultural e a indústria de entretenimento contemporânea - 2007
f) Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences International Congress, York
University. Paper: La production culturelle contemporaine : l’âge du movement – 2006
g) 10th International Congress of ABRALIC, Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature – Rio
de Janeiro (Brazil). Paper: Mídias em movimento: o conceito de midiamoção e a indústria do
entretenimento – 2006.
h) Second World Congress IASA – International American Studies Association, University of
Ottawa. Paper: "Americanidad": Towards the mapping of a concept – 2005.
i) Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences International Congress, University
of Western Ontario. Paper: Les dialogues Brésil - Canada face à l’influence culturelle étatsunienne : LA TROISIÈME VOIE – 2005.
j) 73ème Congrès de l’ACFAS, Association Canadienne-Française pour l'Avancement des
Sciences, Université du Québec à Chitcoutimi. Paper : Americanidad, américanité,
americanidade et l’absence d’ « americanity » : vers la cartographie d’un concept – 2005.
k) The 2005 Levy-Wasteney’s Annual Symposium, University of Toronto. Paper: Brazil and
Canada in the presence of US cultural influence: the third way – 2005.
2) Conference Organization:
a) Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference “Cultures in Transit:
Cultural Mobility in Brazil and Canada” held from May 4-6, 2006, at the University of Ottawa.
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Due to space constraints, only the most recent congress participations were listed (from 2005 onwards).
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b) Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference “From Baroque to NeoBaroque: transhistorical and transcultural transfers of the concept” held from October 2-4,
2008 at the University of Ottawa.
3) Publications:
Bahia, Marcio, Maria Pereira and Walter Moser (eds). Filmes de (An)amnésia: memória e
esquecimento no cinema comercial contemporâneo, Belo Horizonte: Editora Lutador, 2009.
Bahia, Marcio. “A memória como construção: os filmes de (an)amnésia e a falsa memória” in
Filmes de (An)amnésia: memória e esquecimento no cinema comercial contemporâneo, eds.
Bahia, Marcio, Maria Pereira and Walter Moser, Belo Horizonte: Editora Lutador, 2009
Bahia, Marcio. “Mídias em movimento: o conceito de midiamoção e a indústria do entretenimento”
in Brasil-Canada: Mobilidades Culturais, Belo Horizonte, eds. Walty, Ivete; Maria Cury and
Sandra Almeida, Editora da UFMG, 2009.
Bahia, Marcio and Maria Lúcia Jacob. Cruzadas, Brazilian version of the French play “Croisades”
by Michel Azama, in Antologia Teatral da Latinidade, ed. Brie, César et. al, Velo Horizonte:
Editora da UFMG, 2009.
Bahia, Marcio. “Estratégias identitárias no continente americano: ‘americanidad’, ‘américanité’,
‘americanidade’ e a ausência de ‘americanity’” in SCRIPTA, Revista PUC-Minas, Belo
Horizonte, v.11, n.20, p. 43-55, 2007 (refereed). Available at:
http://www.pucminas.br/imagedb/documento/DOC_DSC_NOME_ARQUI20080716123311.pdf
Bahia, Marcio. “O Boto”. Entry for the Dictionnaire des figures et mythes littéraires des Amériques,
directed by Zilá Bernd, Porto Alegre : Editora da UFRGS, 2007. (non-refereed)
Bahia, Marcio. “O conceito américanité no Quebec: um breve histórico” in Brasil-Canadá: olhares
diversos, ed. Diniz, Dilma Castelo Branco et. al. Belo Horizonte: Editora da UFMG, 2006
(refereed).
Bahia, Marcio. “Americanidad: Towards the Mapping of a Concept” in Americas’ Worlds and the
World’s Americas, ed. Chanady, Amaryll, George Handley and Patrick Imbert. Ottawa: Legas,
2006. p.23-33. (refereed)
Bahia, Marcio and Lucia Jacob. “Dramaturgies Contemporaines: ‘Croisades’, de Michel Azama et
le Processus de Traduction” in CALIGRAMA, Revista de Estudos Românicos. Vol.9. Belo
Horizonte, December 2004, p.247-260. (refereed)
Bahia, Marcio. “Menaud Maître-Draveur e Policarpo Quaresma: nacionalismo e loucura na
trajetória de dois heróis americanos” in MEDIAÇÕES. Annals of the Eighth Congress of Abralic
– Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature. Belo Horizonte, 2003. CD-Rom. (nonrefereed).
Bahia, Marcio. “Os diálogos Brasil-Canadá face à influência cultural norte-americana: A terceira
via” in INTERFACES, Annual Journal of ABECAN – Brazilian Association of Canadian Studies.
No. 2. Porto Alegre, 2002, p.95-105. (refereed)
Bahia, Marcio. “O encontro com o estrangeiro em Central do Brasil de Walter Salles Jr.” in
REVISTA LITERÁRIA DO CORPO DISCENTE DA UFMG. No. 27. Belo Horizonte, November
2002. p.142-150. (refereed).
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