CURRICULUM VITAE
(ABRIDGED MAR, 10)
FERNANDO ARENAS
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
34 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St S.E.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.625.2331
2431 Columbus Court
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612.220.0618
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1994. University of California, Berkeley. Luso-Brazilian Literatures.
Scholar's Exchange Program. 1989. Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
M.A. 1988. University of California, Berkeley. Latin American Studies.
B.A. 1986. Northern Arizona University. French and Political Science (magna cum
laude)
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor with Tenure
(2001- )
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Visiting Professor
Harvard University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
(Spring Semester 2003)
Assistant Professor (1995-2001)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Assistant Professor (1994-95)
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
University of San Francisco
ADJUNCT AFFILIATION
Department of African American and African Studies, University of Minnesota, 2004until present.
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BOOKS
Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence (under contract by the University of Minnesota
Press, 2010)
Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil (177 pp).
(University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
EDITIONS
Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World, co-editor with Susan
C. Quinlan from the University of Georgia (317 pp).
ARTICLES
In books:
“Fernando Pessoa: o drama homoerótico.” O corpo em pessoa. eds. Ana Klobucka and
Mark Sabine (Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2010).
“Teaching Lusophone African Fiction.” Teaching the African Novel. Ed. Gaurav Desai
(New York: MLA Publications, 2009).
“Fernando Pessoa: The Homoerotic Drama.” Embodying Pessoa. eds. Ana Klobucka and
Mark Sabine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
“Reverberações lusotropicais: Gilberto Freyre em África.” Gilberto Freyre y los Estudos
latinoamericanos. Eds. Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee. Pittsburgh: Instituto de
Literatura Iberoamericana, 2006.
“Small Epiphanies In The Night Of The World: The Writing of Caio Fernando Abreu.”
Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World. University of
Minnesota Press, 2002.
“Introduction.” Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World.
University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
“A encruzilhada do desejo homoerótico na ficção de Mário de Sá-Carneiro.” A escrita de
Adé: Perspectivas teóricas dos estudos gays e lésbic@s no Brasil eds. Rick Santos e
Wilton Garcia (São Paulo: Xamã; Nassau Community College/State University of New
York, 2002).
In journals:
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“The Renaissance of Angolan Cinema.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 15/16
(2010) : 203-214.
“O outro como utopia na literatura portuguesa contemporânea.” Via Atlântica 8 (2005) :
119-128, Área de Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
“Onde Existir?: A (im)possibilidade excessiva do desejo homoerótico na ficção de Mário
de Sá-Carneiro.” Metamorfoses 6 (2005) : 159-168, Revista da Cátedra Jorge de Sena,
Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
“Utopias da Alteridade: Conceitos na História e Ficção Brasileira e Portuguesa.” Revista
Z, 6 (2003), http://acd.ufrj.br/pacc/z/ Revista Eletrônica do Programa Avançado de
Cultura Contemporânea, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Brasil e Portugal: margens de um mesmo rio, distantes.” Convergência Lusíada 20
(2003): 66-78, Revista do Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"Fernando Pessoa: o drama homoerótico." Gragoatá 12 (2002): 197-210, Revista do
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ,
Brazil.
"Being Here with Clarice Lispector and Vergílio Ferreira: At the Limits of Language and
Subjectivity." Refereed. Portuguese Studies 14 (1999) : 1-14 (Portuguese Department,
King's College, London).
"Beauty at the Surface of Love's Face: Myth and Metanarrative in Vergílio Ferreira's
Contemporary Writing." Refereed. Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies 4 (1999) : 157-169
(Journal of the Center for Portuguese Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara).
"Writing After Paradise and Before a Possible Dream: Brazil's Caio Fernando Abreu."
Refereed. Luso-Brazilian Review 36 (1999) : 13-21 (University of Wisconsin, Madison).
"For Time That Passes: Subjectivity, Nation and Utopias in the Fiction of Maria Isabel
Barreno." Refereed. Ellipsis 1 (1999) : 25-44 (Journal of the American Portuguese
Studies Association/University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana).
CURRENT RESEARCH
1) “Between Emigration, Immigration, and Citizenship: Cultural Imaginings at the
Borderlines of Africa and Europe” (Book project)
2) Teaching Lusophone Africa. (Critical edition solicited by Modern Language
Series “Options for Teaching”)
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INVITED LECTURES
“Interligações africanas e brasileiras na matriz transatlântica lusófona.” Bate-Papo Series.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
March 12, 2010.
“Lusophone African, Portuguese, and Brazilian Interconnections, or the ‘Lusophone
Trans-Atlantic Matrix’.” The Year of the Atlantic Lecture Series. Kennesaw State
University, Kennesaw, GA, November 29, 2007.
“Lusophone African Cinema.” Department of Portuguese Studies and Culture, University
of Massachussetts-Dartmouth, July 10, 2007
“On the Global and the Postcolonial: The Multiple Locations and Directions of
Lusophone Africa.” Lecture Series: “Writing Lusophone Africa.” Department of
Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachussetts-Dartmouth, March 26,
2007
Keynote Address at UC Berkeley Graduate Colloquium on Hispanic and Lusophone
Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures: “On the Global and the Postcolonial: The Multiple
Locations and Directions of Lusophone Africa.” March 9-10, 2007.
Speaker at Roundtable Discussion, Symposium: “Nosotros/NousAutres.” Organized by
the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and French and Italian Studies. April
23, 2005.
“(Post)colonialism, Globalization, and Lusofonia or The ‘Time-Space’ of the
Portuguese-Speaking World.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith College,
Northampton, MA, April 14, 2005.
“African Immigration in Portugal.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith
College, Northampton, MA, April 15, 2005.
“(Post)colonialism, Globalization, and Lusofonia or The ‘Time-Space’ of the
Portuguese-Speaking World.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Texas, Austin, TX, February 24, 2005.
“(Post)colonialism and Globalization: Geopolitical Realities of the Portuguese-Speaking
World.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
April 29-30, 2004.
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“Travels in Lusophone Africa.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 29-30, 2004.
“”Paulo Lins’ City of God and the Dialectics of Marginality.” Roundtable Discussion:
“Foro Latino-Americano,” Department of Romance Languages, Carleton College,
Northfield, MN, April 17, 2004.
“Subjectivities in Flux: Homoerotic Desire and Utopias of Otherness in Contemporary
Brazilian Fiction.” An International Symposium: “Remapping Brazilian Culture and
Identity: A Cultural Studies Perspective.” Department of Portuguese and Brazilian
Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 25-26, 2003.
“Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Contemporary Portuguese and
Brazilian Fiction.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH, April 3, 2003.
“Thoughts on the Production of GLBT Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Culture.”
Feminist Inquiry Seminar, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 3, 2003.
“Portuguese-Brazilian (Dis)Connections,” Re-Defining Cultural History: The
Portuguese-Speaking World, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of
Massachussetts, Dartmouth, February 6, 2003.
“Spaces in Between: Grand Narratives of Brazilian Nationhood, from the Time of the
‘Heroic Cannibals’ to the Dawn of Lula,” Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University, December 9, 2002.
“Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Contemporary Portuguese and
Brazilian Fiction,” Feminist Theory Colloquium, Center for Advanced Feminist
Studies/Department of Women Studies, University of Minnesota, November 25, 2002.
Roundtable Discussion, "Globalisation, technologies et médias," Campus visit by
Armand Mattelart, Department of French and Italian Studies, University of Minnesota,
March 2002.
Roundtable Discussion, "Space and Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," Fifth Annual
Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies, "Locating Time: Representations of
Chronology and Space" University of Minnesota, March 2001.
"Ensino e Investigação sobre Literaturas e Culturas Lusófonas nos Estados Unidos da
América." Associação de Escritores Moçambicanos, Maputo, Mozambique, September
2000.
“The African Diaspora in the Portuguese-Speaking World.” Roundtable with film
director Flora Gomes and poet/essayist Nancy Morejón, “The Afro-Diaspora at the End
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of the Millenium,” Center for Afro-American and African Studies, Romance Languages
and Literatures, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, September 1999.
“A Horizon in Flux in Guinea-Bissau: The Cinematography of Flora Gomes.” Course on
Screen Writing, Film and Video Program, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
September 1999.
CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED
Respondent
“Politics of Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World.” Modern Language
Association, New York, December 2002.
Invited papers
“Lusofonia: Under the Ambivalent Sign of Postcoloniality.” Symposium: Rethinking
Lusofonia in the 21st Century. Georgetown University, Washington DC. April 26, 2008.
“Cultural Notes on the Portuguese-African Nexus.” Conference: “Portuguese in Africa,
The Portuguese in Africa.” University of Notre Dame. April 18-19, 2008.
“A diva dos pés descalços: Cesária Évora e a globalização da música popular
caboverdeana.” Conference: “III Encontro de Professores de Literaturas Africanas:
Pensando África — Crítica, Ensino e Pesquisa.” Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro/Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. November 21-23, 2007.
“(Post)colonialism, Globalization, and Lusofonia or The ‘Time-Space’ of the
Portuguese-Speaking World.” Conference: “Linguistic Communities or Cultural
Empires?: The Impact of European Languages in Former Colonial Territories.”
University of California, Berkeley, CA. February 10-11, 2005.
“Margens de um mesmo rio, distantes.” Simpósio: “Relações luso-brasileiras: entre o
ressentimento e o fascínio.” ABRALIC (Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada),
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 23-26, 2002.
"Fernando Pessoa: o drama homoerótico." Terceiro Encontro sobre Cultura e
Homoerotismo, Instituto de Letras, Universidade Federal Fluminense/Niterói, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-13, 2001.
“Existir Aonde?: A (Im)Possibilidade Excessiva do Desejo Homoerótico n’A Confissão
de Lúcio de Mário de Sá-Carneiro.” Primeiro Encontro de Literatura e Homoerotismo,
Instituto de Letras, Universidade Federal Fluminense/Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May
21-22, 1999.
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Refereed papers
“Lusophone Africa on Screen: The Question of Language.” European Conference on
African Studies, Universität Leipzig, Germany, June 4-7, 2009.
“Licínio Azevedo’s Filmography: Portraits of Post-War Mozambique.”African Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 13-15, 2008.
“Angolan Contemporary Fiction and Film: After Utopia and Before the End of Hope.”
African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York City, October 18-21, 2007.
“On the Global and the Postcolonial: The Multiple Locations and Directions of
Lusophone Africa” in Lusophone African Mini-Colloquium: Postcolonialism and
Globalization (in Honor of Professor Emeritus Russell Hamilton). Fifth Conference,
American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), University of Minnesota, October
2006.
“O Outro como Utopia na Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea,” Associação
Internacional de Lusitanistas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain,
July 18-23, 2005.
“Reverberações lusotropicais: Gilberto Freyre em Cabo Verde,” “The Portuguese
Atlantic: Africa, Brazil and Cape Verde,” (organized by King’s College, London),
Mindelo, Hotel Porto Grande, São Vicente, Cape Verde, July 6-9, 2005.
“Reverberações luso-tropicais: Gilberto Freyre em África,” American Portuguese Studies
Association, University of Maryland, College Park, October 14-16, 2004.
“Reflexões críticas sobre a pós-colonialidade ‘afro-lusófona’,” Cinco Povos, Cinco
Nações, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, October 8-11, 2003.
“(Post)colonialism, Globalization, and Empire: Geopolitical Realities in the PortugueseSpeaking World,”
Luso-Brazilian Session, “Redefining Postcolonialism in the
Portuguese-Speaking World,” Modern Language Association, New York, December
2002.
“Imagens abensonhadas: cinema e vídeo nos países africanos de língua oficial
portuguesa.” Cinema in the Luso-Brazilian World I, AATSP (American Association of
Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 31-August 2, 2002.
"The Filmography of Flora Gomes: A Horizon in Flux in Postcolonial Guinea-Bissau."
Luso-Brazilian Session "In Performance." Modern Language Association, Washington
DC, December 2000.
"Utopias of Otherness in Contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures." APSA
(American Portuguese Studies Association), Second International Congress, Brazilian
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Literature and Cultures: "Narrativa Brasileira III, Escrevendo o Eu e o Outro," University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 21 October 2000.
"Utopias da Alteridade nas Literaturas Portuguesa e Brasileira." In Sessão Semi-Plenária.
ABRALIC (Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada), Universidade Federal da
Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, July 2000.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Imagine Fund, University of Minnesota, 2009-10. ($3,000)
Travel Grant for 3rd European Conference on African Studies. Leipzig Universität,
Germany. Office of International Programs, University of Minnesota, June 2009. ($823)
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005-06. ($37,000)
Faculty Summer Research/McKnight Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Summer
2005 [Was awarded fellowship but turned it down due to impending sabbatical and
Guggenheim Fellowship]
Travel Grant for Conference on Lusophone African Literatures. Universidade de
Coimbra, Portugal. Office of International Programs, University of Minnesota, October
2003. ($600)
Travel Grant for Conference on African Film and History, University of Cape Town,
South Africa, Office of International Programs, University of Minnesota, July 2002
($650)
Sabbatical, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2001-02.
Sabbatical Supplement, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2001-02.
Single Semester Leave, University of Minnesota, Spring 2002.
Travel Grant for Research in Angola, Office of International Programs, University of
Minnesota, Summer 2001 ($1,000).
Bush Early Career Faculty Program: Pursuing Teaching Excellence in a Multicultural
University (Year-round series of workshops on teaching methodologies and new
technologies), Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota, 2000-01
($400).
Research Course Release, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Minnesota, Fall Semester 2000.
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Grant-In-Aid in Research, Artistry and Scholarship, Graduate School, University of
Minnesota, “Nations of Dreams: Contemporary Cultures of Lusophone Africa,” 1999-00
($16,214).
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant, College of Liberal Arts, University of
Minnesota, Fall Quarter 1999 ($300).
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE ABROAD
Cape Verde and Portugal, 2009
Mali, 2007-08
South Africa, Mozambique, and Angola, 2006
Cape Verde, Portugal, France, São Tomé & Príncipe, and Senegal, 2005.
Portugal and Angola, August 2001
Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique, August and September
2000 (Research for second monograph on Lusophone Africa)
Cape Verde and Portugal, March and June 1999 (Research for second monograph on
Lusophone Africa)
Brazil, July 1994 (Dissertation research at Arquivo-Museu de Literatura Brasileira, Casa
Rui Barbosa – Rio de Janeiro).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Professorships
Harvard University (Department of Romance Languages & Literatures)
Spring 2003
Portuguese 130 (Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa)
Portuguese 131 (Brazil: Land of the Future, Postponed)
Tutorial (Department of History and Literature) — Intensive Weekly Directed Readings
on Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures.
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Departamento de
Letras. June 19-21, 2001. Mini Graduate Course, "Palavras em transição: literatura
portuguesa e angolana de final do século XX— uma aproximação interdisciplinar."
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Fall 2009
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Portuguese 3603, “The Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation: Lusophone Africa”
Portuguese 1909, Freshman Seminar, “Brazil: Land of the Future, Postponed”
Spring 2009
Portuguese 3802, Popular Music in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Fall 2008
Portuguese 3800, Film Studies in Portuguese
Portuguese 5540, Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa
May Session 2008
Global Studies 1120, “Understanding Contemporary Brazil: History, Culture, and
Politics” (Short-Term Study-Abroad Course) (new course)
Spring 2008
Portuguese 3603, “The Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation: Lusophone Africa”
(new course)
Portuguese 3501, “Foundations of Portuguese Culture”
Fall 2007
Portuguese 1905, Freshman Seminar, “Brazil: Land of the Future, Postponed” (new
course)
Portuguese 5910, Popular Music in the Portuguese-Speaking World (revised course)
Spring 2007
Portuguese 5910
The Lusophone Trans-Atlantic Matrix (new course)
Spring 2005
Portuguese 3920
Popular Music in the Portuguese-Speaking World (new course)
Development Studies and Social Change 8111
Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing (co-taught with Helga Leitner,
Geography Department) (new course)
Fall 2004
Spanish/Portuguese 5930 Comparative Studies in Literature and Society;
5910: Discourses of Sexuality in the Lusophone and Hispanic Worlds (revised course)
Portuguese 3503
Literatures and Culture sof Lusophone Africa
Spring 2004
Portuguese 3910
Fall 2003
Portuguese 5910
(revised course)
Portuguese 3800
Introduction to Literature in Portuguese (revised course)
New Worlds in the Tropics: Discourses of Portuguese Colonialism
Film Studies in Portuguese
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Fall 2002
Portuguese 5540
course)
Portuguese 3501
Fall 2001
Portuguese 3910
Spanish 3105
Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa (new graduate
Foundations of Portuguese Culture
Cinema in the Portuguese-speaking World (new course)
Introduction to Latin American Cultures (new course)
Spring 2001
Comparative Literature 5910/Portuguese 5910: Masters on the Periphery of Capitalism:
Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures in Translation (new course)
Spanish/Portuguese 3972 Senior Graduation Seminar
Fall 2000
Portuguese 3501
Foundations of Portuguese Culture
1999-00
Portuguese 5520 Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies
Portuguese 3503 Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa
Portuguese 3003 Advanced Conversation and Composition (new course)
1998-99
Portuguese 5910 / 8920 Theories of Postcoloniality and Globalization (new course)
Portuguese 5524 Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies (new course)
Portuguese 3910 Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature (new course)
Portuguese 3503 Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa (new course)
Portuguese 3501 Foundations of Lusophone Cultures
1997-98
Portuguese 8920 Luso-Brazilian Seminar: Brazilian Intellectual Thought
(new course)
Portuguese 5522 Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (new course)
Portuguese 3501 Foundations of Lusophone Cultures
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
PROFESSION
Member of Organizing Committee, Fifth Conference, American Portuguese Studies
Association (APSA), University of Minnesota, October 2006.
Member of Executive Committee, American Portuguese Studies Association, 2005-07.
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External Reviewer, New Masters’ Program, Department of Portuguese, University of
Massachussetts, Dartmouth, December 12, 2003.
Member of Executive Committee, Luso-Brazilian Division, Modern Language
Association, 2002-06.
Vocal of Executive Commitee, American Portuguese Studies Association, 2000-02.
Organizer of Portuguese Literature and Culture Section, Third Conference, American
Portuguese Studies Association, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, Fall 2000-02.
Member of Organizing Committee for Third Symposium on Homoeroticism and Cultura
(Terceiro Encontro de Cultura e Homoerotismo), Instituto de Letras, Universidade
Federal Fluminense/Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2001.
CIEE (Council for International Educational Exchange), Member of On-Site Review
Team for Study-Abroad Programs, Universidade de São Paulo/Universidade Federal da
Bahia, Brazil, April 1998.