Curriculum Vitae
MARIA JOSÉ SOMERLATE BARBOSA
Business address:
451 Phillips Hall
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
Phone: (319) 335-2988/ Fax: (319) 335-2990
Email:[email protected]
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Higher Education History
Ph.D., Dissertation: “Whose Voice Is It Anyway?: Literary Self-Consciousness in Sterne, Machado,
Lispector and Barth,” Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature (major), British and American
Literature (minor), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1990
M. A., Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature, Thesis: Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1986
B.A., English and Portuguese, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), December 1983
Academic Positions
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa: Associate Professor (2001-present); Assistant
Professor (1998-2001); Visiting Professor (1997-1998)
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona: Assistant Professor (1990-1997)
Romance Languages Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Graduate Teaching
Assistant of Portuguese (1984–1990)
Other Affiliations:
University of Iowa:
• Faculty, International Programs (2003-presente)
• Member, Steering Committee, Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies (2005-2009); Latin American
Studies, University of Iowa (1998-2007)
University of Arizona
• Faculty: Latin American Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (1992-1997); Women’s Studies (1994-1997);
Comparative Culture and Literary Studies (1995-1997)
Administrative Experience
Director, University of Iowa Summer Program in Brazil, 2004-2006
Supervisor, Graduate Teaching Assistants of Portuguese, University of Iowa, beginning and
intermediate accelerated Portuguese, spring and fall, 1988-2002; spring, 2003-2006, 2008-2010
• Coordinator, elementary and intermediate Portuguese, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987-1989
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Membership in Professional Organizations
• ABRALIC (Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada) <www.abralic.org.br/>
• APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) <www.umassd.edu/apasa/>
• BRASA: Brazilian Studies Association (<www.brasa.org/>)
• LASA (Latin American Studies Association) <lasa.international,pitt.edu/>
• MLA (Modern Language Association) <www.mla.org/>
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Office in Professional Organizations
• BRASA: Brazilian Studies Association
Appointed Chair, Academic Committee, 2010-2012
Elected Member, Executive Committee, 2006-2010
a. Chair, “Brazil Initiative Scholarship Committee,” 2007-2009
b. Member, Nominations Committee for EC members, 2007-2008
• APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association). Founding member
a. Elected President, 2003-2005
b. Elected Vice President, 2000- 2002
c. Elected Member of the Executive Committee, 1998-2000
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
(Division: Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature)
a. Elected President of the Division, 2000
b. Member Executive Committee, 1997-2001
SCHOLARSHIP
Awards and Grants
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TILE (“Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage”) Institute, University of Iowa. Office of the Executive
Vice-President and Provost, summer 2010 (workshop), fall 2010 and spring 2011 (training for use of
technology in the classroom).
Career Development Award (“Literature at the Intersections of Language, Culture, and History”),
University of Iowa. Office of the Executive Vice-President and Provost, fall 2009.
Travel Grant to Brazil to participate in the XXVIII LASA International Congress. From the Office of
International Programs, summer 2009.
Curriculum Development, course: “Writing Brazil in the U.S.” Funded by the Office of International
Programs, University of Iowa, spring 2007.
Special Projects Fund for the Cultural Event: “Dances of Brazil.” Funded by the Office of
International Programs, University of Iowa, spring 2006.
Career Developement (sabbatical). Project: “Afro-Brazilian Women: The Body Inscribed,” funded by
the Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Iowa, fall 2003.
Book subvention to publish Passo e Compasso: Nos Ritmos do Envelhecer. Funded by the Office of
the Vice-President for Research, University of Iowa, August 2003.
University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) to study Spanish (Alicante, Spain). Funded by the
Office of Study Abroad, University of Iowa, July 2003.
Research travel to Brazil to collect materials on Afro-Brazilian culture and literature. Funded by the
Office of International Programs, University of Iowa, fall 2003.
Participation in the semester-long seminar on “Sex, Economics, Politics: Sexuality as a Social
Phenomenon,” the First Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Research Semester. One course reduction
+ travel funds. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice-President for Research, U of Iowa, fall 2002.
National Endowment for the Humanities. Research: “Women in Capoeira: A Brazilian Martial
Art/Ritual,” summer 2001. (external)
Old Gold Summer. (Research: Brazilian popular culture), funded by the Office of the Provost,
University of Iowa, summer 2000.
Research travel to Brazil to do field research and collect material about elders in Afro-Brazilian
communities in Minas Gerais, Bahia and São Paulo. Funded by the Office of the Vice President for
Research, University of Arizona, summer 1996.
Travel grant to participate in a conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Funded by the Office of
International Studies, University of Arizona, August 1996.
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To organize a cultural Event ("African Heritage in Brazil"). Funded by the Office of the Dean of
Humanities/African American Studies/Latin American Studies, U of Arizona, November 17, 1995.
Teaching award: “Wakonse Teaching Fellow”: Camp Tontozona, June (retreat for selected fellows, in
recognition of excellence in teaching). Teaching Center, University of Arizona, July 1993.
Travel grant to participate in a conference, Hamburg, Germany. Funded by the Office of International
Studies, University of Arizona, September 1993.
Research travel to Brazil to do collect materials on Clarice Lispector. Funded by the Office of the
Vice-President for Research, University of Arizona, summer 1991.
Merit award. Contributions to Portuguese division of the Dept. of Romance Languages, University of
North Carolina, May 1988.
Publications
Books
• Recitação da Passagem: A Obra Poética de Edimilson de Almeida Pereira. Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
Mazza Edições, dezembro de 2009. 272 pp. [Brazilian poetry, Afro-Brazilain culture and history]
• Ed. Passo e Compasso: Nos Ritmos do Envelhecer. [In the Rhythms of Growing Old.] Porto Alegre,
Brazil: EDIPUCRS (Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), 2003. 317
pp. (On literary and cultural representations of age/aging in Brazil, Portugal, Angola and
Mozambique.) Twenty contributors from academic circles of Brazil and the United States
• Clarice Lispector: Des/fiando as Teias da Paixão. Porto Alegre (Brazil): EDIPUCRS, 2001. 167 p.
[Translation of Spinning the Webs of Passion].
• Clarice Lispector: Mutações Faiscantes Sparkling Mutations. Belo Horizonte, Brazil: GAM Editora,
December 1997. 180 p. Bilingual edition. (Intellectual Biography)
• Clarice Lispector: Spinning the Webs of Passion. New Orleans: University Press of the South,
February 1996. 117 p. (Brazilian prose / Gender Studies)
Book Chapters
• “O mergulho na matéria da palavra’: Clarice Lispector e suas predecessoras brasileiras.” [“Clarice
Lispector and Her Predecessors”]. Clarice Lispector: Novos Aportes Críticos. Org. Cristina FerreiraPinto-Bailey e Regina Zilberman. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana,
2007, p. 165-81. (Brazilian literature / Gender studies)
• “As personagens femininas de Erico Verissimo.” [Erico Verissimo’s Female Characters]. Caderno de
Pauta Simples: Erico Verissimo e a Crítica Literária. Maria da Glória Bordini, org. Porto Alegre:
Instituto Estadual do Livro, 2005. 301-33. (Brazilian Literature/Gender)
• “Corredores, labirintos e ritos de passagem para a idade avançada.” [Hallways, Labyrinths, and Rites
of Passage into Aging]. Passo e compasso: nos ritmos de envelhecer, 2003. 165-74. (Brazilian
literature/ Gender /Age studies)
• “Ideologia e identidade na literatura brasileira.” [Ideology, Identity, and Aging in Brazilian
Literature]. Passo e compasso: nos ritmos de envelhecer, 2003. 267-84. (Gender /Age)
• “Adélia Prado e Cora Coralina: A via láctea da palavra.” [Adélia Prado and Cora Coralina: The
Word’s Milky Way]. Mulher e Literatura. Org. Constância Duarte, Eduardo de Assis e Kátia da
Costa Bezerra. Belo Horizonte: UFMG Ed., 2002. p. 99-107. (Poetry/Gender)
• “Dicionário de forquilhas: A poesia de Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.” [“A Dictionary of Forking
Paths: Edimilson de Almeida Pereira’s Poetry”]. Poéticas Afro-Brasileiras. Maria Nazareth Fonseca
and Maria do Carmo Lanna Figueiredo, orgs. Belo Horizonte: EDIPUCMG e Mazza Editora, 2002.
p. 159-90 (Afro-Brazilian poetry)
• “Exu: ‘verbo devoluto’.” [Eshu: The Mutant Sign]. Brasil Afro-Brasileiro. Maria Nazareth Fonseca,
org. Belo Horizonte: Editora Autêntica, 2000. p. 153-171. (Afro-Brazilian literature/culture).
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“Espaçamento como registro cultural na obra de Helena Parente Cunha.” [Spacing as a Cultural
Register in Helena Parente Cunha’s Work]. Entre resisitir e identificar-se: para uma teoria da
prática da narrativa brasileira de autoria feminina. Org., Peggy Sharpe. Florionópolis, Santa
Catarina: Editora Mulheres e Goiânia: U Federal de Goiás, 1997. P. 139-153. (Brazilian lit../Gender)
Articles
• “Women Novelists in the Early Decades of Brazilian Modernism.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura
Latinoamericana 37.1 (May 2008): 3-24. (Brazilian literature/Gender studies)
• “A representação da mulher nas cantigas de capoeira” [Representations of Women in Capoeira
Songs]. Revue Internationale d’Études Lusophones 1 (Université de Nantes, France, 2006): 137-52.
(Afro-Brazilian culture/Gender studies).
• “A mulher na capoeira.” [Women in Capoeira]. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 9
(2005): 9-28 (Afro-Brazilian culture/Gender)
• “Capoeira: A gramática do corpo e a dança das palavras.” [Capoeira: The Grammar of the Body
and the Dance of the Words]. Luso-Brazilian Review 42.1 (2005): 78-98. (Afro-Brazilian culture).
• Co-authored with Paul B. Dixon. “Olhos de Ressaca: As alusões literárias de Clarice Lispector a
Machado de Assis.” [“Clarice Lispector’s Literary Allusion to Machado de Assis”]. Santa Barbara
Portuguese Studies 8 (2004): 47-64.
• “Gambitos narrativos e encruzilhadas de decifração: discursos de narradores idosos na literatura
brasileira.” [Narrative Gambits and Deciphering Crossroads: Old Narrator’s Discourses in Brazilian
Literature]. Hispania 85.3 (2002): 517-23. (Brazilian literature/age/language)
• “Strategies of Poetic Language in Afro-Mineiro Discourses.” Luso-Brazilian Review, 37.1 (2000): 6382. (Afro-Brazilian culture/literature)
• “Chorar, verbo transitivo.” [“To Cry, a Transitive Verb”]. Cadernos Pagu: Trajetórias do Gênero
Masculinidades 11 (1998): 321-43. (Gender studies)
• “Cento e oitenta graus na curva evolutiva das emoções: as personagens femininas de Fernanda
Botelho.” [A Hundred and Eighty Degrees in the Evolving Emotions of the Female Characters of
Fernanda Botelho’s Work”]. Boletim do Centro de Estudos Portugueses 18-22 (1998): 249-272.
(Portuguese Contemporary literature / Gender studies)
• “Adão Ventura e o (con)texto afro-brasileiro.” [Adão Ventura and the Afro-Brazilian Context]. AfroHispanic Review 16.2 (1997): 19-25. (Afro-Brazilian poetry)
• “Ident(idade) nacional na literatura brasileira.” [Nacional Identity and Aging in Brazilian literature].
Cadernos de Lingüística e Teoria da Literatura 28-30 (1995): 73-93. (Age studies)
• “O plissado plexo de Hilda Furacão.” [The Pleated Plexus of Hilda Furacão]. Boletim do Centro de
Estudos Portugueses 18.75-84 (1994): 107-16. (Gender)
• “Nivelamento em Morte e vida severina.” [Levelling in Morte e vida severina]. Hispania 76.1 (1993):
30-37. (Brazilian poetry)
• “Brás’s Delirium and G.H.’s Reverie: The Quest for the Origin of Time.” Luso-Brazilian Review 29.1
(1992): 19-27. (Brazilian novel)
• “Tristram’s and Memórias’ Parodic and Intertextual Play.” The Comparatist 16 (1992): 24-48.
(British and Brazilian novel)
• “Life as an Opera: Dom Casmurro and The Floating Opera.” Comparative Literature Studies 29.3
(1992): 223-37. (Brazilian and American novel)
• “A marginalização do corpo “fenecido” nos corredores da sensualidade.” [The Marginalization of the
Withered Body]. Limites: Selected Proceedings of the Conference of the Brazilian Association of
Comparative Literature. Vol. II (Niterói, Brazil (1992): 337-42. (Gender/Age studies)
• “A hora da estrela and Um sopro de vida: Parodies of Narrative Power.” Chasqui: Revista de
Literatura Latino-americana 20.2 (1991): 116-21. (Gender Studies)
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“The Transgression of Literary and Ontological Boundaries According to Clarice Lispector.”
Romance Languages Annual 2 (1990): 327-29. (Brazilian novel)
“Machado, Barth e Lispector: em busca do texto subjacente.” [“Machado, Barth, and Lispector: in
Search of the Underlying Text”]. Selected Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Brazilian
Association of Comparative Literature (1990): 327-29. (Brazilian and American novel)
“A hora da estrela and the Tangible Reality of Fiction.” Romance Languages Annual 1 (1989): 22329. (Brazilian novel)
Encyclopedia Entries
• Alves, Miriam; Colasanti, Marina; Cunha, Helena; Felinto, Marilene; De Jesus, Carolina Maria;
Prado, Adélia; and Ribeiro, Esmeralda. Who is Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Ed. Jane
Eldrige Miller. London. New York: Routledge Press, 2001. p 12, 68-69, 74-75, 80, 106, 262, 273.
• “Lamartine Babo”; “Victor Brecheret”; “Humberto Castelo Branco”; “Forró”; “Antônio Carlos
Jobim”; “Lambada”; “Milton Nascimento”; “Macumba”; “Monumento aos Bandeirantes”;
“Quilombhoje/Cadernos Negros”; “Umbanda.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin-American and
Caribbean Culture. Ed. Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana Lopez. London, New York:
Routledge, 2000. p. 129-30, 226, 590, 796-97, 829, 888, 993, 1026, 1227, 1505-06.
• “Clarice Lispector.” Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul E. Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 1998. Vol. I, p. 775-776.
• “Machado de Assis.” Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul E. Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 1998. Vol. II, p. 789-790.
Anthologies (organizer)
• “O corpo inscrito”/ [The Inscribed Body”]: Introduction. Biographical information on the authors.”
Poemas inéditos: Andréia Lisboa de Sousa, “Sonoite” and “Mundala”; Conceição Evaristo, “Canto
II”, Canto III”, “Canto IV”; Cristiane Sobral, “Vingança,” “Amor tarifado”; Esmeralda Ribeiro,
“Poema de amor proibido,” “Ciranda,” “Em nome de quem?”; Miriam Alves, “Tiquetaquear no
teclado,” Palma da mão,” Captar o vento”; Ruth de Souza Saleme, “Sempre viva,” “Segredos,”
Cânticos aflitos,” “Audácia, “Candeia”; Zula Gibi, “Borboleta,” “Bel-prazer.” Brasil/Brazil: Revista
de Literatura Brasileira/A Journal of Brazilian Literature 31 (2004): 72-92. (Afro-Brazilian poetry).
• “De Caderno Qvase: Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.” [To accompany the interview “`Com modos e
truques de ouvir’”].Poemas inéditos: ‘Plural das coisas’, ‘Lutiê Pedro de Jacó’, ‘Fiscal’, ‘Fortunas’,
‘Verde visto do alto’, ‘Partes não sofridas da carta de uma esposa’, ‘Matemática’, ‘Farmácia
dicionário’, ‘Angústia voa como garça’”. Brasil / Brazil: Revista de Literatura Brasileira / A Journal
of Brazilian Literature 19 (1998): , p.75-82. (Afro-Brazilian poetry)
• “Poemas de Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.” Apresentação. Poemas inéditos: “Ilustração sem
Balafong,” “Músico morando sozinho,” “De Janis a Bessie,” “De Bessie a Janis,” “A cidade flutua,”.
Torre de Papel, vol. 9, no 2, p. 30 -37, 1999. (Afro-Brazilian poetry)
Annotated Bibliographies
• “Published Letters to and from Clarice Lispector”; “Clarice Lispector Interviews Others”; “Others
Interview Clarice Lispector”; “Biographical Statements (Depoimentos)”; “Biographical
Criticism”; “Interviews with Others about Lispector and Her Work”; “Autobiographical
Statements”; and other annotations throughout the book. Clarice Lispector: A Bio-Bibliography.
Ed. Diane E. Marting. New York: Greenwood Press, 1993. P. 183-190; 199-209; 213, 214, 215,
219-229; 240, 243, 244, 246, 249, 250, 255, 262, 267, 268, and 281-284.
• “Critical Categories of Lispector’s Texts: An Annotated Bibliography (Periodicals and Proceedings of
Conference in Portuguese and English).” Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía/American Review of
Bibliography 43.3 (1993): 523-570. (Brazilian novel)
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Interviews
• “`Com modos e truques de ouvir’: Entrevista com Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.” [“With Listening
Gimmicks and Wiles: An Interview with Edimilson de Almeida Pereira”]. Brasil / Brazil: Revista de
Literatura Brasileira / A Journal of Brazilian Literature 19 (1998): 98-130. (Brazilian Poetry)
• “Adélia Prado: Penso em sexo, morte, Deus e poesia. Todo santo dia.” [“Adélia Prado: I Think of
Sex, Death, God and Poetry. Every Single Day”]. Brasil/Brazil: Revista de Literatura Brasileira / A
Journal of Brazilian Literature 9 (1993): 75-105. (Brazilian poetry/Gender studies)
Book Reviews
• Rev. of Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature by Jerome C. Branche. Columbia and
London: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 292 p. Luso-Brazilian Review 47:1 (2010); 223-25.
• Rev. of Landless Voices in Song and Poetry: The Movimento dos Sem Terra of Brazil. Compiled and
annotated by Else R. P. Vieira. Translated by Bernard McGuirk. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and
Communications Press, 2007. lxix + 243 pp. Bulletin of Spanish Studies (University of Glasgow,
U.K.) LXXXVI (2009): 420-21.
• Rev. of Being and Blackness in Latin America: Uprootedness and Improvisation by Fox,
Patricia D. Gainesville: Florida UP, 2006. 207 p. Luso-Brazilian Review 45:2 (2008): 214-16.
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Rev. of Talking Brazilian: A Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation Workbook by Mário A. Perini. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 160 p. The Modern Language Journal (2006): 44647. 701 words.
Rev. of A Palavra Usurpada: exílio e nomadismo na obra de Clarice Lispector by Cláudia Nina.
Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2003. 182 p. Luso-Brazilian Review 41.2 (spring 2005): 193-94.
Rev. of The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar. Tr. by Eloah F. Giancomelli. Albuquerque:
University Press of New Mexico, 1999. 475 p. Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 64
(Spring 2002): 87-88.
Rev. of Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil by John Burdick. New
York/London: Routledge, 1998. 246 p. Ellipsis 2 (2002): 110-14.
Rev. of Brazilian Feminisms, by Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira and Judith Still, ed. Nottingham, UK:
University of Nottingham, 1999. 190 p. Revista Iberoamericana 193 (2000): 916-18.
Rev. of Urban Voices: Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil, by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto, ed.
Lanham, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 1999. 250 p. Revista Iberoamericana 193
(2000): 905-907.
Rev. of Critical Acts: Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism, by Elizabeth Marchant. 144 p.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Revista Iberoamericana 192 (2000): 684-86.
Rev. of Clarice Lispector: uma vida que se conta, by Nádia Gotlib. São Paulo: Ática, 1995. 493 p.
Ellipsis 1 (1999): 161-63.
Rev. of Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry since Modernism, by Charles Perrone. Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1996. 243 p. Luso-Brazilian Review 31.3 (1998): 88-89.
Selected Presentations
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Invited Presentation: Sessão Destaque 12. “Um Ato de Espionagem.” In dialogue with the
author Edimislon de Almeida Pereira in this special focus session about his work in poetry
and anthropology.
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Invited participation: Discussions: Conferência Internacional sobre o Futuro da Língua
Portuguesa no Sistema Mundial. Organizada pelo Ministério das Relações Exteriores.
Brasília, Palácio Itamaraty, March 25-27, 2010.
Invited Presentation. Paper: “Performativty and Performance in Clarice Lispector’s Texts.”
1st Conference of Brazilian Women Writers in New York. Brazilian Endowment for the Arts.
Sponsored by BRASA, REBRA, New York Film Academy, and Brazilian Consulate in New
York, October 14-16, 2009.
Featured speaker: “Blue Highways of Brazilian Modernism.” Part of series of lectures honoring the
historian Thomas Skidmore. Department of Modern Languages, Denison U, Granville, Ohio,
November 15, 2007.
Featured speaker: “Expressive Cultures of Brazil in the Context of the African Diaspora.” Denison
University, Granville, Ohio. Center for Black Studies and Women Studies, February 6-8, 2007.
Featured speaker: “As Personagens Femininas de Érico Veríssimo.” International Seminar on Erico
Verissimo. Teatro Bruno Kiefer/Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana. Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 5-7,
2005. <www.copesulcultural.com.br.>
Featured speaker: “Race, Gender and Sexuality.” Grinnell College. Part of the series of events
“Layers of Brazilian Art” that took place from January 31-April 13, 2003, organized by Leslie
Wright, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, February 27, 2003.
Featured speaker: “Afro-Brazilian Religions.” Hispanic Heritage Month. Denison University,
Granville, Ohio, October 9, 2000.
Invited participation: “Wounded Narratives: Brazilian Women Writers Between the Wars.”
Symposium on Literature Written Between the Two Wars in Portugal and Brazil. University of
Utrecht, June 5, 1998.
Invited participation: “A Thousand and One Thresholds of Ardors.” Symposium to commemorate the
20th anniversary of Clarice Lispector’s death. University of Texas, Austin, October 16-17, 1997.
Invited participation: “Os labirintos do corpo e da palavra na obra de Clarice Lispector.” Round-table
discussion, organized by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Fundação Cultural Clóvis
Salgado to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Clarice Lispector’s death. Belo Horizonte,
December 1, 1997.
Invited participation: “`Espaçamento’ como registro cultural na obra de Helena Parente Cunha.”
Conference: “Resistência e Identidade na Narrativa Contemporânea de Escritoras Brasileiras.”
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 21-22, 1996.
International Conferences
• “A Letra e a Voz: A Poesia de Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.” LASA (Latin America Studies
Association), Theme: Rethinking Inequalities. Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, June 11-14,
2009.
• “Deslocamentos Culturais, Lingüísticos e Sociais em Textos de Graciliano Ramos, Clarice Lispector
e Marilene Felinto.” Sixth International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association
(APSA), Yale University, October 9-11, 2008.
• “Cartografias do Desejo: O Rio de Janeiro e a Amazônia na Literatura Norte Americana.” BRASA
IX, Tulane University, New Orleans, March, 27-29, 2008.
• “De máscaras a tatuagens: língua e literatura em Moçambique.” Fifth International Conference of the
Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature (ABRALIC). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30th –
August 2nd, 1996.
• “‘O Rio da Dúvida’: Roosevelt e a Política Racial Brasileira como Modelo de Integração Social para
os Estados Unidos.” BRASA, Nashville, Vanderbilt University. (Race and Affirmative Action in
Brazil), October 13-16, 2006.
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“Mucamas e Mulatas.” APSA Fourth International Congress, University of Maryland, College Park,
October 14-16, 2004.
“A narrativa de Conceição Evaristo e Marilene Felinto.” BRASA VII Congresso Internacional,
Pontifícia U Católica do Rio de Janeiro, June 9-12, 2004.
“Nzinga e sereia: a mulher na capoeira.” II Encontro de Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa,
University of São Paulo, Brazil, October 26-30, 2003.
“O corpo inscrito: escritoras afro-brasileiras.” APSA Third International Congress, University of
Massachussets, Amherst, Nov. 7-9, 2002.
“Atravessando Fronteiras Diaspóricas: Textos de Marilete Felinto, Toni Morrison e Conceção
Evaristo.” VII International Congresso da ABRALIC. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 23-26, 2002.
“Globeleza.” XXIV Congresso (Literatura e Outras Artes na América Latina) do Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, July 2-6 2002.
“Pomba-Gira no Imaginário Popular e Religioso.” APSA 2nd International Congress, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 19-21 October, 2000.
“Capoeira: a dança das palavras na gramática do corpo.” ABRALIC 7th Congress, Universidade da
Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, July 25-28, 2000.
“Memória e linguagem: narradores velhos.” BRASA 5th International Congress, Recife, Brazil, June
18-21, 2000.
“Exu, mensageiro da palavra.” 6th International Congress of the Luso-Brazilian Association.
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 8-13, 1999.
“Dislocating Culture, Displacing the Body and Spatializing the Self.” International Congress on
Contemporary Lusophone Women Writers.” University of Utrecht, Netherlands, May 19-21, 1999.
“No rastro das cidadelas.” American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) First International
Congress, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, March 26-28, 1998.
“Curriculum Innovations” (about courses designed to include all the countries in the Portuguesespeaking world).” Workshop: Redesigning the Curriculum, Revitalizing the Classroom.” BRASA.
Washington, D. C., November 12-15, 1997.
“Homem que é homem não chora.” Panel: “Masculinidades e a construção da virilidade.” BRASA
Fourth Congress. Washington D.C., Nov. 12-15. 1997.
“Velhas sagas e tristes cantos: filamentos gerontológicos na literatura brasileira.” Fourth International
Congress of Luso-Brazilianists, the U of Hamburg, Germany, September 6-11, 1993.
“A marginalização do corpo ‘fenecido’ nos corredores da sensualidade.” 3rd Congress of the Brazilian
Association of Comparative Literature (ABRALIC), Niterói, Brazil, August 10-12, 1992.
“Machado, Barth and Lispector: em busca do texto subjacente.” Second Congress of Comparative
Literature, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, August 8-10, 1990.
3. National Conferences
• “The Erotic and Exotic Lure: A Cultural Decoy.” Modern Language Association (MLA),
Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006.
• “A Poesia de Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.” AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese. Rio de Janeiro, July 29- August 2, 2002.
• “A Via Láctea da Palavra: Adélia Prado e Cora Coralina.” IX Seminário Nacional Mulher e Literatura.
UMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 22-24 August, 2001.
• “Round Eyes/Sideways Glances: Literary and Cinematic Representations of Immigrants in Brazil.”
Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, December 27-30, 1999.
• Homenagem a Clarice Lispector” and “O sotaque estrangeiro de Clarice Lispector.” Purdue
University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures & Film. Panel organized by Paul Dixon to
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commemorate the 20th anniversary of Clarice Lispector’s death. West Lafayette, Indiana, October 1012, 1997.
“O discurso pós-colonial no contexto da literatura moçambicana.” Midwest Modern Language
Association, Chicago, November 6-8. 1997.
“Adélia Prado e Cora Coralina: a arte de (des)fiar o cotidiano.” South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, Atlanta, November 3-5, 1995.
“The Manifold Standards of Aging.” 48th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of
Kentucky, Lexington, April 20-22. 1995.
“Raça e raízes na poesia de Adão Ventura.”. American Association of Teachers of Spanish &
Portuguese (AATSP), San Diego, August 7-11, 1995.
“A escrita de Fernanda Botelho.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,
Philadelphia, August 7-12th, 1994.
“A Poética e política do espaço no romance brasileiro.” 24th Annual Convention of the Northeast
Modern Languages Association. Philadelphia, March 26-28, 1993.
Panel discussant in “Construction of National Identities: A Roundtable Discussion.” Modern
Languages Association (MLA), Toronto, Dec. 27-30. 1993.
“Whose Voice Is It Anyway?: Clarice Lispector’s Parodies of Narrative Power.” Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature. The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, October 3-5, 1991.
“Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas: Disavowing a Vantage Point.” Kentucky Foreign Languages
Conference, Lexington, 23-25th April, 1991.
TEACHING (* = courses designed and implemented)
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1. Courses in Portuguese
* Port 120 – Topic: Cross-Cultural Studies (Africa/Brazil/Portugal), U Iowa, (1999, 2000, 2003, 2007)
* Port 120 – Topic: Contemporary Brazilian Culture (Cultura e Economia) (2010)
* Port 112 – Topic: “Afro-Brazilian Characters,” U Iowa, (1998)
Port 106 – “Brazilian Literature: 1900-present,” U Iowa, (2000, 2004, 2008,)
Port 105 – Brazilian Literature I, “1500s-late 1900s,” U Iowa, (1999, 2001)
* Port 104 – Introduction to Literary Analysis, U Iowa, (2002, 2004, 2007)
* Port 599, "Clarice Lispector e a escrita `feminina'," U of Arizona, (1990)
* Port 464/564, "Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures", U of Arizona, (1991)
* Port 463/563, topics, "Voices, Visions and Vexations: Women in Brazilian Music and
Literature," U of Arizona, (1996)
* Port 463/563, topics, "`Seduction' in Brazilian Literature," U of Arizona, (1992)
* Port 406/506, "Panoramic View of the Literature of the Portuguese-speaking Countries,"
unifying concept: national identity, U of Arizona, (1995)
* Port 499, "The Short-Story in the Portuguese-Speaking World," U of Arizona, (1995)
Port 463, "Brazilian Literature, Romanticism and Modernism,” U of Arizona, (1990)
2. Courses in English
* LASP 176 –Senior Seminar: “Gender, Race, Religion and Popular Culture in Brazil,” U Iowa, (2006)
* LASP 176 –Senior Seminar: “Expressive Cultures of Brazil,” co-taught w/ Laura Graham, U Iowa, (2004)
* Port 115 – “Writing Brazil in the US,” U Iowa, (2007, 2008)
Port 114 – Culture and Civilization of the Portuguese World (for GE), U Iowa (1998, 2001, 2004)
Port 020 – Contemporary Brazilian Narrative (for GE), U Iowa, (1997-2001, 2005-2006, 2008)
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B. Language
Port 103 (Cinema for Portuguese Conversation), U Iowa (2009, 2010)
Port 103 (Composition and Conversation), U Iowa, (2000-2007)
Port 102 (Portuguese for Spanish Speakers), U Iowa, (2004)
Port 101 (Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese), U Iowa, (1997-2000, 2005-2010)
Port 100 (Accelerated Beginning Portuguese), U Iowa, (1997)
C. Guest Lecturer
“Brazilian Women in Carnaval,” 137:157: Brazilian Carnaval, Dance Department, U of Iowa,
Armando Duarte’s class, 2008, 2010
“Afro-Brazilian Religions,” African Studies Lecture Series, U of Iowa, 2001
"Afro-Brazilian Heritage." LAS 495/595: Colloquium, Latin American Studies, U of Arizona, Raúl
Saba’s class, 1997-1996
"Afro-Brazilian Religions," LAS 495/595: Colloquium, Latin American Studies, U of Arizona, Raúl
Saba’s class, 1995
"Documento e Ficção," Spanish 571: "Literary Theory in Spanish America," Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, U of Arizona, Eliane Rivero’s class, 1994
"Marginal Characters in Brazilian Literature," Latin American Studies, Brown Bag Lectures, U of
Arizona, 1992.
"Clarice Lispector's ‘À procura de uma dignidade,'” 696a: Graduate Seminar in Latin American
Literature, Dep. of Spanish and Portuguese, U of Arizona, Eliane Rivero’s class, 1991.
"Clarice Lispector's Contribution to Brazilian Literature," Latin American Studies, Brown Bag
Lectures, 1990.
Participation in Graduate Committees
A. Co-Director:
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Ph.D. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. U of Iowa. María Mercedes Ortiz. Dissertation: “Narratives
of the Rainforest: At the Inter-section of Nation, Region, and Ethnicity.” Dissertation Awards: 2006:
Seashore/ Ballard Fellowship; and 2004: Anne Cleary International. Defended spring 2007.
M.F.A. Comparative Literature. Andrea K. Strane. Thesis, “Lost in Rio: A Translation of Short
Stories by Sônia Coutinho.” Defended July 2009.
M.A. Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies (U Arizona). Beatriz Amorim. “Gender Problems in
Lispector’s A maçã no escuro e “Perdoando Deus,’” spring 1991. Shorter version published in
Brasil/Brazil: Revista de Literatura Brasileira/ A Journal of Brazilian Literature 8 (1992): 29-51.
B. Reader:
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Ph.D. Communications Department. (U Iowa). Samantaha Nogueira Joyce. Dissertation: “Duas
caras: Brazilian Television and Race.” March 2010.
Ph.D. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. (U Iowa). Jaime Orego. Dissertation: “Antimodernidad y
Lógica Narrativa en el Neo Regionalismo en Manuel Mejia Vallejo.” Nov. 2008.
Ph.D. Art Department. (U Iowa). Kimberley Cleverland. “New Directions in Black Brazilian Art
History.” April 2007.
Ph.D. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese (U Iowa). Sheree Henlon. Dissertation: “The Representation
of Haiti and Haitians in Caribbean Literature of the 20th Century.” April 2007.
Ph.D. Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese (U Iowa). Mamadou Badiane. Dissertation: “Negrismo y
Négritude en el Siglo XX: Un Estúdio Comparativo.” April 2006.
Ph.D. School of Education. (U Iowa). William Medina. Dissertation: “Student Border Crossing
Between Local Cultures and Classroom Science in Colombia.” April 2004.
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Ph.D. School of Music. (U Iowa). Irna Priori. Dissertation: “The Case of a Continuous 5: Expanding
the Schenkerian Interruption Concept – With Analytical Interpretation of Beethoven.” Spring 2004.
Ph.D, School of Music. (U Iowa). Daniel Afonso. Dissertation: “The A Capella Choral Works for
Mixed chorus of Esther Scliar (1926-1978).” Summer 2003.
Ph.D, School of Music. (U Iowa). Matthew L. Faerber. Dissertation: “Manuel Cardoso (c. 15661650), Portuguese Nationalist.” Summer 2001.
C. Examiner: (Oral and Written)
University of Iowa
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Ph.D. Exams. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. Alfredo Duplat. Area: Brazilian Literature (XX and
XXI centuries). Fall 2009.
Ph.D. Exams. Dept. of Spanish and Port. Sheree Henlon. Area: Afro-Brazilian Literature. Fall 2003.
Ph.D. Dept. of Spanish and Port. María Mercedes Ortiz. Area: Brazilian Literature. Spring 2003.
Ph.D. School of Education. William Medina. Area: Brazilian Literature and Culture. Spring 2003.
M.A. exams. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. Jaime Cruz-Ortiz. Spring 2003.
University of Arizona
Ph.D. Exams. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. (U Arizona). Alvaro Ayo. Area: Brazilian literature.
Spring 1996.
M.A. exams. Latin American Studies. Anne Flatin. Area: Brazilian culture. Spring 1996.
M.A. exams. Latin American Studies. Jamie Callop. Area: Brazilian culture. Spring 1996.
M.A. exams. Latin American Studies. Anne Gozzi. Area: Brazilian culture. Spring 1995.
M.A. exams. Latin American Studies. Stephanie Hernandez. Area: Brazilian literature and culture.
Spring 1995.
Undergraduate Committees
A. Director (U of Iowa):
• B.A. International Studies. David Saide. Senior Project: “Three Case Studies of Cultural Tourism in
Bahia/Brazil: Capoeira, Festa do Bonfim, and Festa de Yemanjá.” May 2009.
• B.A. International Studies. Robert Moore. Senior Project: “Baroque Architecture in Salvador,
Brazil.” May 2007.
• B.A. International Studies. Allison McCarthy. Senior Project: “The Dutch in Brazil.” May 2007.
• B.A. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Major: Portuguese. Amber Haugen. Honors Thesis:
“Os Caboclos do Candomblé.” Spring 2006.
• B.A. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Major: Portuguese. Robert Garrity. Honors Thesis: “O
Refinamento da “Obra Poética e Musical de Vinicius de Moraes e sua Contribuição à Música Popular
Brasileira.” Fall 1998.
B. Menthor: (U of Iowa)
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ICRU Undergraduate Research. Major: International Programs. Student: Anthony Bedel. Summer
2010.
Undergraduate Scholar Assistantship (USA): research experience. Major: Portuguese. Student: Collin
Richardson. Spring 2003.
B.A. Honors Teaching Praticum. Larissa Lopes. Depart.ment of Spanish and Portuguese. Spring
2001.
B.A. Honors Teaching Praticum. Jennifer Ruppert. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Spring
2000.
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Other Contributions to Teaching
Curriculum Development: Study Abroad
• Designed (2003), implemented and directed (2004-2006), the University of Iowa, Summer Study
Abroad in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
(A six-week-summer language/culture program for undergraduate and graduate students).
Courses taught: “Afro-Brazilian Culture” (2006-2005); “Brazilian Literature and Film” (2004)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION AND TO THE UNIVERSITY
Advisory Board
• Travessia: Revista de Literatura. U Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2007-present
• Ângulo: Revista de Literatura e Cultura. Lorena, São Paulo, Brazil, Fall 2007-present
• Censive: Revue Internationale d’É’tudes Lusophones, Nantes, France, April 2006-present
• Hispanic Journal, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, March 2006-present
• Ellipsis: Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association, USA, January 2000-present
Evaluator for Promotion and Tenure
• Summer 2008. U of North Carolina, Wilmington, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Summer 2007. University of Georgia, Department of Romance Languages
• Fall 2007. Smith College, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Evaluation of Manuscripts for Academic Journals and Presses
Books
• (2006) Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures (PSRL)
• (2005) Editora Mulheres (Florionópolis, Brasil)
• (2004) Wayne State University Press
• (2002) Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
• (2002) Wayne State University Press
• (1998) Africa World Press.
Book Proposal
• (1999) McGraw-Hill
• (1991) Peter Lang Publishing Company.
Articles
• (2008-1999) Ten articles. Luso-Brazilian Review (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• (2007) Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (University of Arizona)
• (2004) Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana
• (2003, 2002) GENRE (University of Oklahoma)
• (2002) PMLA (MLA publication)
• (1998) The Comparatist (Southern Literature Association)
• (1998) Countour (Duke University)
Evaluation for Luso-Brazilian Books Catalogue
• (2000-1996): evaluation /writing entries for Luso-Brazilian Books Catalogue (New York)
Organizer: Conference and Symposium
• International Scope: member of the organizing committee: APSA (American Portuguese Studies
Association) Fourth International Congress, University of Maryland. Major contributions: in charge
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of conducting the selection process, contacting and inviting key note speakers. (105 participants),
October 14-16, 2004.
International Scope: General Organizer: APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) Third
International Congress, University of Massachusetts Amherst. (101 participants), November 7-9,
2002.
International Scope: Member of the organizing committee: “Literatura e Otras Artes en América
Latina,” XXXIV Congreso del Intituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of
Iowa, Iowa City. (150 participants), July 2-6, 2002.
National Scope: Symposium, “Luso-Afro-Brazilian Poetry.” Homage: Adélia Prado, University of
Arizona,Tucson. (17 participants), October 16-17, 1991.
G. Organizer: Panels for Conference (also chaired one session in each of the following)
Conference: APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association), co-organized ten sessions on
Brazilian literature with Regina Zilberman; chaired one session. University of Maryland, November
7-9, 2004.
Conference: AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Panel:
“Brazilian Literature II: Poetry.” Chicago, July 31-August 4, 2003.
Conference: APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association). Two sessions on Afro-Brazilian
Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 7-9, 2002.
Conference: AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Two panels:
“Literatura e Cultura Afro-BrasileiraI and II.” Rio de Janeiro, July 29th-August 2, 2002.
Convention: Modern Language Association (MLA). “Body and Violence.” Washington D. C.,
December 27, 2000.
Conference: Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Two sessions: “Literatura, Etnia e Identidades”
(Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture);“Leitura: produção de impressos e recepção de obras.” Fifth
International Congress. Recife, Brazil, June 18-21, 2000.
Conference: American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA). Three sessions: “Reconfigurações e
Imagens Afro-Brasileiras”; “Vozes de Escritoras Afro-Brasileiras”; “Roda de Poesia Afro-Brasileira.”
2nd International Congress. Madison, Wisconsin, 19-21 October, 2000.
Conference: American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA). Two sessions: “Edimilson de
Almeida Pereira: Poetry Reading and Discussion” by/with the poet himself” and “Edimilson de
Almeida Pereira: redimensionando o discurso poético afro-brasileiro.” First International Congress.
Yale University, March 28-30, 1998.
Convention: Modern Languages Association ( MLA). “Double Binds and Blind Spots: Age, Race,
and Class Issues in Luso-Brazilian Literature,” Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 1995.
Conference: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). “Vozes AfroBrasileiras II,” San Diego, August 7-11, 1995.
Conference: Kentucky Foreign Languages. Two sessions: “Portrayals of Aging in Luso-Brazilian
Literature I and II, 48th April 2-22, 1995.
Conference: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). “Vozes AfroBrasileiras I,” San Diego, August 7-11, 1995.
Organizer: Events and Lectures (at the university level)
• Public lecture and class discussion: Diana Brown, Bard College, "Between Black and White:
Umbanda, Candomblé and Brazilian Hybridity," sponsored by Latin American Studies Program, U
Iowa, April 6, 2006.
• Public lecture and class discussion: Floyd Merrell, Purdue University, “Conformity and Resistance in
Brazilian Capoeira and Candomblé,” sponsored by Latin American Studies Program, U Iowa, April
18, 2006.
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Public lecture and class discussion: Kenneth P. Serbin, UC San Diego, "Needs of the Heart: A Social
and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries,” sponsored by Latin American Studies
Program, U Iowa, April 27, 2006.
Cultural Event and mini-workshop: Performance, Gingarte Capoeira Group (Marisa Cordeiro and 11+
performers): “Dances of Brazil,” sponsored by Latin American Studies Program and International
Programs (Special Funds Project), Old Brick, Iowa City, April 29, 2006.
Lecture: “Indian Encounters: Cross-Cultural Referencing in the Bahian Carnival,” by Barbara
Browning (NYU). (Co-organized with Laura Graham as part of the 2004 LASP Seminar). McBride
Hall, U Iowa, April 30, 2004.
Events: Brazilian popular music and cuisine: show by the musical groups “Handphibians and Avenida
Brasil” and Brazilian Feijoada. (Co-organized with Laura Graham as part of the 2004 LASP
Seminar). Old Brick, Iowa City, May 1, 2004.
A slide lecture: José Neistein. (Executive Director of the Brazilian-American Cultural Institute,
Washington D.C.). “Roots of Modern Art in Brazil: 1913-1962.” Sponsored by the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, U Iowa, April 5, 2003.
Lecture/Recital: Maria Teresa Madeira. “Brazilian Music: Influences and Characteristics.”
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Music Department, Harper Hall,
University of Iowa, February 28, 2001.
Lectures: Ivete Walty (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil): “Vozes Indígenas
nas Sociedades Latino-Americanas” and Maria Nazareth Fonseca (Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil) --“O Olhar Estrangeiro sobre o Negro do Brasil,” Phillips Hall, Sponsored by the
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, U Iowa, September 28, 1998.
Cultural Event (producer). "African Heritage in Brazil" to celebrate the 300th year of Zumbi's death.
Musical Group "Sounds of Brazil" and "Barbea Williams Dance Company." Funded by the Office of
the Dean of Humanities, African American Studies, and Latin American Studies. University of
Arizona, November 17, 1995.
Musical program: "Brazilian Music: Samba e Bossa Nova," by Brazilian musician, song-writer, and
guitarist Tico da Costa. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities and the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, U Arizona, fall 1994.
Membership in Committees
University of Iowa
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Chair
• Fifth-Year Review Committee, Eileen Willingham, U of Iowa, spring 2006
• Academic and Cultural Activities, U of Iowa, monthly, 2002-2003
• Financial Aid Committee, U of Iowa, spring 2001, spring 2003
• Review Committee (post-tenure evaluation), Mercedes Niño-Murcia, U of Iowa, spring 2002
• Academic and Cultural Activities, (Colloquium), U of Iowa, 1999-2002
• Undergraduate Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, U of Arizona, 1995-1996
Member
• Third Year Review, Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez, Dept. of Spanish & Port., U of Iowa, fall 2009.
• Search, Hispanic American Literature, Dept. of Spanish & Port., U of Iowa, 2008-2009
• Search, Creative Writing, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, U of Iowa, 2007-2008
• Search, Visiting Professors, U of Iowa, spring 2000
• Search, Latin American Literature, Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese, U of Arizona, 1995-1996
• Review Committee (post-tenure evaluation), Walter Dobrian, U of Iowa, spring 2003
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Review Committee (probationary evaluation), Denise Filios, U of Iowa, spring 2002
Financial Aid Committee, U of Iowa, 1998-1999, 2001, 2003-2004
Outcomes Assessment, U of Iowa, 1999-2001
Curriculum Committee, U of Iowa, 1998-1999
General Education Program, U of Iowa, 1998-1999
Across Campus
Member
Curriculum Development Award, International Programs, U of Iowa, 2007-2008
Travel Grant, International Programs, U of Iowa, 2004-2006
University Libraries, U of Iowa, 2003-2005
Fulbright-Hayes, (two panels), International Programs, U of Iowa, fall 2004
Foreign Language Task Force, Office of the Provost, U of Iowa, 2001
University of Arizona
Member
• Graduate Admissions, Latin American Studies, U of Arizona, 1996-1997
• Graduate Students Travel Funds, Women's Studies, U of Arizona, spring 1996
• Dean's Academic Advisory, College of Humanities, U of Arizona, spring 1995
• College of Humanities "Buddy" System, College of Humanities, U of Arizona, 1993-1994
• Small Grants Peer Review, Office of the Vice-President for Research, U of Arizona, 1994
• Curriculum Development Fund, International Programs, U of Arizona, spring 1993
• Review Committee (probationary evaluation) Mary Zampini, U of Arizona, 1993
• Advisory Board, Poetry Center, U of Arizona, 1991-1993
• Fulbright-Hayes, International Programs, U of Arizona, fall 1992
• Faculty Advisory Committee for Curriculum Planning, Office of the Dean, U Arizona, 1992
• Planning and Policies Advisory Budget Subcommittee, Office of the Dean, U Arizona, 1992
• Portuguese Curriculum Development, U Arizona, 1992
• Timothy Brown Award, U of Arizona, 1992-1995
• Departmental Self-Evaluation, U Arizona, 1991
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Honors Program, Spanish and Portuguese, U of Iowa, Fall 2007
Academic, majors in Portuguese and Spanish, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, (average of 18
students per semester), U Iowa, 1997-2008
Academic, majors in Portuguese, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, U Arizona, 1995-1996
Student Association, “Portuguese Language Club,” U of Iowa, 2006-2009
Student Association, “Clube Gente Boa,” U of Arizona, 1990-1995
Mentoring Program, career related program, U Arizona, 1992
Service to the Community at Large
Presentation: “Mucamas e Mulatas: a Portuguese Legacy?” In the colloquium, “Encompassing the
Globe: Portuguese Contact, Exchange, and Heritage.” University of Iowa, International Commons,
April 12, 2008.
Introduction: “Conceição Evaristo’s Literature.” Part of the literary program with readings from the
author. Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, November 7, 2007.
Volunteer work: HACAP Head Start Program. Organizing and supervising Portuguese students to
read stories in Portuguese twice a week to Brazilian children who were new in the community and did
not understand English. Coralville, Iowa, February-May, 2000.
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Talk: Radio Talk with Ray Heffner, Humanities at Iowa/Perspectives on Education, WSUI/KSUI.
Topic: "José Saramago” (Portuguese Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature), aired on Iowa City, Iowa,
October 16, 1998.
Liaison with/for musicians and producers and host: Musical Program: “Singing Together," with Pete
Seeger, Tico da Costa and Rande Harris, Tucson, Arizona, Fall 1995.
Liaison and host: Council for International Visitors, (Brazilian ecologists, architects, and journalists),
Tucson, Arizona, Spring 1994, Summer 1993, Fall 1992).