Tania Martuscelli
Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
1. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Lusophone Studies, August 2000 – May 2006
M.A. Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp, Brazil,
Literary Theory, March 1998 – May 2000
B.A. Universidade Estadual de Campinas– Unicamp, Brazil
Major : Portuguese Language and Literatures, Mar.1994-Feb.1998
Minor : Teaching Methodology, March 1994 – January 1998
2. ACADEMIC EMPLOYEMENT HISTORY
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, July 2010 – Present
Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, August 2006 – June 2010
Lector of Portuguese
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures,
August 2003 – July 2006
Lecturer of Portuguese
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, August 2001 – July 2003
Instructor of Portuguese
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, August 2000 – July 2003
Teaching Associate
Fundação Municipal de Ensino Superior de Bragança Paulista, SP
Brazil
Department of Literature, July 2000 – August 2000
Visiting Scholar in the Graduate Program latu-sensu
Escola Estadual de Primeiro e Segundo Graus Barão Geraldo de
Resende, Campinas, SP Brazil, August 1997 – February 1998
Instructor of Portuguese Language and Literature
3. GRANTS/AWARDS/HONORS
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Book Research Grant. Dec. 2014-Aug.
2015.
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), University of
Colorado at Boulder. October, 2014.
Hazel Barnes Flat and Schwalbe Travel Grant, Center for the Humanities
and the Arts, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. August 2014.
Dean’s Fund of Excellence, University of Colorado at Boulder. November
2013.
CHA Small Grant. Funds for Second “Brazil-US Network” Meeting in
São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. June 2013.
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), University of
Colorado at Boulder. Research funds. October, 2012.
Dean’s Fund of Excellence, University of Colorado at Boulder. Travel
funds. September 2012.
2011-2012 President’s Fund for the Humanities, University of Colorado at
Boulder. November 2011.
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), University of
Colorado at Boulder. November, 2011.
Dean’s Fund of Excellence, University of Colorado at Boulder. Research
funds. February 2011.
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), University of
Colorado at Boulder. Research funds. November, 2010.
Title VI/Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University,
June-September 2009: Curriculum development funds.
Title VI, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Chair’s Fund and
Yale Forestry and Environmental School, March 2009: travel funds.
Malcolm Batchelor Fund at Yale University, October 2008: travel funds.
Title VI/Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University,
May-September 2008: Curriculum development funds.
Title VI/ Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies and Malcolm
Batchelor Fund at Yale University, October 2007.
Title VI/Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University,
May-September 2007.
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento & Biblioteca
Nacional de Lisboa, June – August 2007 : Short-Term Research Grant.
Title VI/Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University,
February 2007: travel funds.
Center for Language Study and Title VI/Council on Latin American and
Iberian Studies at Yale University, November 2006: travel funds.
The Malcolm Batchelor Fund at Yale University, October 2006: travel
funds.
The Malcolm Batchelor Fund and Council on Latin American and Iberian
Studies at Yale University, October 2006.
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento & Biblioteca
Nacional de Lisboa, June 2005 – August 2005 : Short-Term Research
Grant.
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento & Biblioteca
Nacional de Lisboa, June 2002 – August 2002: Short-Term Research
Grant.
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento & Biblioteca
Nacional de Lisboa, June 2001 – August 2001: Short-Term Research
Grant.
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, June 1998 –
May 2000: Master’s Degree Fellowship.
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, December 1995
– November 1996 : Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
4. RESEARCH
Book: Mário-Henrique Leiria Inédito e a Linhagem do Surrealismo em
Portugal. Lisbon: Colibri Editores, 2013. 255 pp.
Articles:
“Para uma literatura do cerrado” (Accepted for publication in
Colóquio/Letras, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2015).
“A(s) decadência(s) de Portugal: escritos políticos de Antero, Pessoa e
Sena”. Trinta e Tantos Anos de Devoção: ensaios sobre Jorge de Sena em
honra de Mécia de Sena. (coord.) Fagundes, F.; Igrejas, António M. A.;
Antunes, Susana. Ver Açor Ed. (In Press, 2015)
“Das vicissitudes do ensino de literatura brasileira nos Estados Unidos”. O
quê as Letras têm? Caderno de Atividades Acadêmico-Científico-Cultural
(2014). Universidade Padre Anchieta, Jundiaí, SP, Brazil. ISSN
2318-9002. 9pp.
“Almada, Carroll e a Linhagem do Surrealismo.” Revista de História da
Arte – Série W (2014), Instituto de História da Arte - Faculdade de
Ciências Sociais e Humanas: Universidade Nova de Lisboa. p. 169-173.
“Da poesia pintada e da dissolução dos gêneros” Colóquio/Letras 184
(September 2013). Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. p.
105-119.
“A poesia de um auto-exilado: Mário-Henrique Leiria no Brasil”, in Teresa
Cid; Teresa F. A. Alves et al. Portugal pelo mundo disperso.
Lisbon: Tinta da China, 2013. p. 283-296.
“Between Modernism and Surrealism: Dada in Portugal.”
Modernism/Modernity, vol. 19, number 2 (April 2012). The Johns
Hopkins University Press. p. 277-286.
“Surrealismo francês, surrealismo português ou ‘a rua André Breton está
sempre a mudar de rua.’” Anais do XXIII Congresso Internacional da
Associação Brasileira de Professores de Literatura Portuguesa, (org.)
Feitosa, Márcia M. M., and Lima, Renata R.. São Luís: UFMA, 2012.
Brazil. p.1102-1114. Electronic edition:
http://www.abraplip.org/publicacoes.html
“Pasárgada as the dreamland in the Portuguese-speaking world.”
Portuguese Studies 28, issue 1 (March 2012). King’s College, London. p.
49-61.
“O modernismo português e a ‘plataforma de encontro entre o passado e o
futuro’.” Colóquio/Letras 179 (January 2012). Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. p. 115-126.
“Literary perspectives on Brazilian national identity:
before and after modernism”. Brasil/Brazil, Revista de Literatura
Brasileira/A Journal of Brazilian Literature, v. 24, n.44 (2011). Porto
Alegre: AC/ALEV; Providence, R.I.: Brown University. p.35-52.
“A recriação do modernismo: Dezasseis textos inéditos de Mário-Henrique
Leiria.” Forma Breve 7 (December 2009). University of Aveiro, Portugal.
p. 347-372.
“Para uma discussão do lugar utópico: a Pasárgada bandeiriana habitada
por cabo-verdianos e portugueses”. Abril – Revista do Núcleo de Estudos
de Literatura Portuguesa e Africana da Universidade Federal Fluminense
2 (April 2009). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. p.114-121.
“Variações sobre o mesmo tema: o Portugal de Camões, Pessoa, Sena e
Leiria” Jorge de Sena Novas Perspectivas, 30 Anos Depois (org.)
Fagundes, F., and Lourenço, Jorge Fazenda. Lisbon: Univ. Católica
Editora, 2009: 187-198.
“O Cantor, o Dromedário e a Poesia Portuguesa Hoje.” Revista EPA –
Estudos Portugueses e Africanos 41 (Spring 2003). Campinas, Brazil. p.
15-26.
“quid pro quo e Criação: Jorge de Sena e o Surrealismo Português.” Tudo
Isto que Rodeia Jorge de Sena (org) Fagundes, F., and Gandara, P. Lisbon:
Salamandra Editores, 2002: 147-164.
“A Artesania de O’Neill: Entre o Neo-Realismo e o Surrealismo.”
Cadernos do Centro de Estudos do Surrealismo 2 (February 2002). Vila
Nova de Famalicão, Cupertino Miranda Foundation, Portugal. p. 13-24.
“A Singularidade de António Maria Lisboa na Poesia Portuguesa.” Revista
EPA – Estudos Portugueses e Africanos 38 (Fall 2001). Campinas, Brazil.
p.39-65.
Refereed Book Reviews:
“Reimagining Luso-Brazilian encounters: a new venue for an old
discussion.” Confluência, v. 29, Number 2 (Spring 2014). University of
Northern Colorado, CO. p. 198-199.
http://www.unco.edu/hss/confluencia/reviews/2014spring/Martuscelli.pdf
“Márcia Valéria Zamboni Gobbi. A ficcionalização da História – Mito e
paródia na narrativa portuguesa contemporânea.” Portuguese Literary &
Cultural Studies, 25 (Fall 2013). Umass-Dartmouth, MA. p. 202-203.
“José Martins Garcia. Vitorino Nemésio – à luz do Verbo”. In Vitorino
Nemésio and the Azores (org.) Fagundes, F. Umass Dartmouth:
Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 11, 2007: 515-518.
“‘O Nada Cotidiano’ de Zoé Valdés – Livro descreve o cotidiano na ‘ Isla
de la Perdición’ - Tropeços na tradução e nos conceitos”, in Jornal Hoje
em Dia, “Cultura”, June 7, 1998. p.3.
Guest Lectures/ Guest Speaker:
“A cidade de Palagüin, a Pasárgada, ou o verso e o anverso do
descontentamento com a realidade.” Congresso Surrealismo(s) em
Portugal nos 60 anos da morte de António Maria Lisboa. Lisbon,
Portugal. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/University of Lisbon/Perve
Gallery. Nov. 18-12, 2013.
“Almada e a linhagem surrealista.” Colóquio Internacional Almada
Negreiros, Lisbon, Portugal. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Nov.
13-15, 2013.
“Teaching Literature for Undergraduate Students.” Univ. of Colorado at
Boulder, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Teaching Literature in Spanish
Classes Brown Bag Series. April 10th, 2013.
“A Linhagem do Surrealismo em Portugal”. State University of São Paulo,
UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil. July 7th, 2011.
Latin American Studies Center Faculty Speakers Series. “Literary
Perspectives on Brazilian National Identity: Before and After
Modernism”, University of Colorado at Boulder. April 14th 2011.
Fundamentals of Teaching Foreign Language, A Joint Workshop Series of
the Graduate Teaching Center and the Center for Language Study at Yale
University. Wednesdays beginning 9/9 through 10/7, 2009 (5 sessions).
Session 4: “Material and Technological Resources”.
Guest-speaker in “Round-table meeting with Nahuatl instructors” on
collecting and creating authentic materials in a foreign language course.
Center for Language Studies, Yale University. March 31, 2009.
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Fall 2007 Film Festival.
“Indios” on Film, presented in conjunction with courses “Origins of
Complex Societies of MesoAmerica” and “Contemporary Issues in Latin
American Studies”. Talked about the film Brava Gente Brasileira, directed
by Lúcia Murat. Yale University. November 12th, 2007.
“Basics of Portuguese and Brazil Today” a section for students of MGT
865 - Managing Social Enterprises in Developing Countries, Yale School
of Management – Global Social Enterprise, February 26th, 2007.
Conference Presentations:
Session leader: “Os Limites, as Fronteiras, os Espaços Fronteiriços em
Almada Negreiros”. Paper presented: “O Espaço entre Almada e
Mário-Henrique Leiria”. APSA 2014 – IX American Portuguese Studies
Association, Eleventh International Conference, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque. 22-25 October, 2014.
Presentation by Brazil-US Network research group: “Society,
Envrionment, Literature”. Served as group and session leader. Paper
presented: “Para uma literatura do cerrado”. XII Brazilian Studies
Association (BRASA), King’s College, London, U.K. August 20-23, 2014.
“Teaching Society, Environment and Governance in a Language Class: A
New Approach to Advanced/Conversation Courses in Portuguese”.
Second International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes,
Boulder, CO. April 17-19, 2014.
“Of Painted Poetry, or of Poetic Painting: The Case of the Portuguese
Artist Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association. Boulder, CO. Oct. 11-13, 2012.
“Surrealismo francês, surrealismo português ou ‘a rua André Breton está
sempre a mudar de rua.’” XXII Congresso Internacional da Associação
Brasileira de Professores de Literatura Portuguesa. São Luís, MA, Brazil.
Sept. 11-16, 2011.
“Between Modernism and Surrealism: Dada in Portugal”. Modernist
Studies Association 12th Annual Conference. University of Victoria,
Canada. Nov. 11-14, 2010.
“O modernismo português e a ‘plataforma de encontro entre o passado e o
futuro’”. APSA 2010 – American Portuguese Studies Association, Seventh
International Conference, Brown University, Providence. October 7-9,
2010.
“A poesia de um auto-exilado: Mário-Henrique Leiria no Brasil”.
Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora (1928-2008): An International
Conference on Storytelling. University of Lisbon, Portugal. October
23-25, 2008.
T. Martuscelli & Marcelo Schincariol. “Students producing their own
material in a Portuguese class”. Languages – Passport to the Future,
RIFLA (Rhode Island Foreign Language Association), Providence,
Community College of Rhode Island. September 27, 2008.
“Variações sobre o mesmo tema: o Portugal de Camões, Pessoa, Sena e
Leiria”. Jorge de Sena Cá & Lá: Novas Perspectivas, 30 Anos Depois.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Universidade Católica
Portuguesa in Lisbon. April 25, 2008.
“La tecnología en favor del aprendizaje: la práctica del portugués más allá
del salón de clase”, Language Workshop - La tecnología a nuestro
alcance: los recursos tecnológicos en la enseñanza de la lengua.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Center for Language Studies,
Yale University. March 4, 2008.
“Teaching colors through paintings in a Portuguese class and a discussion
about cultural differences between Brazil and Portugal”, Spring 2007
Presentation and Seminar Series. Center for Language Studies, Yale
University. May 1, 2007.
“La cultura en el aula de portugués: el universo de la red como excusa
para el aprendizaje”, Language Workshop – La cultura en la clase de
lengua y la lengua en la clase de cultura. Department of Spanish and
Portuguese and Center for Language Studies, Yale University. April 26,
2007.
“Introduzindo o Auto da Compadecida a estudantes americanos de
português: linguagem, cultura, política e economia como elementos
essenciais para a compreensão do texto”, XI SILEL, Universidade Federal
de Uberlândia, Brazil, November 2006.
“A poética inédita de Mário Henrique Leiria, leitor de Fernando Pessoa”,
APSA 2006 – American Portuguese Studies Association, Fifth
International Conference, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October
2006.
“Portuguese Beyond the Classroom”, Rhode Island Foreign Language
Association Fall Conference, Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, October 2005.
F. Mangan, T. Martuscelli et al. “Production and Marketing of Agricultural
Products for the Growing Brazilian Population in Massachusetts” Brazil
in Bold: Dialogues Across Disciplines, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, February 2004.
F. Mangan, T. Martuscelli et al. “Production and Marketing of Crops to
Portuguese-Speaking Groups in Massachusetts, USA”. 49th Annual
Meeting of the ISTH – Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture,
Fortaleza, Brazil, August - September 2003.
“Ema Paiva: O Espelho Quebrado de Emma Bovary ou O Caleidoscópio
Apocalíptico”, APSA 2002 – American Portuguese Studies Association,
Third International Congress, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
November 2002.
“Jorge de Sena e o Surrealismo Português: quid pro quo e Criação”,
“Tudo Isto que Rodeia Jorge de Sena”- An International Colloquium in
Honor of Mécia de Sena, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May
2001.
“Surrealismo: Arte e Política”, VII FALE – Fórum Acadêmico de Letras,
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP Brazil, June 1996.
“António Maria Lisboa: o Rêve Oublié do Surrealismo Português”,
Encontro de Calouros com Coordenadores de Projetos de Pesquisas e
seus Bolsistas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP Brazil, April 1996.
5. TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Scholarly Advisory:
Co-Advisor with Nina Molinaro of Susan Wright, PhD. Candidate.
University of Colorado at Boulder. Spring 2014 – present.
Advisor of Laura Cesarco Eglin. PhD. Candidate. University of Colorado
at Boulder. Fall 2011- present.
Member of the committee of Olga Saavedra-Chavez’s Ph.D. exam titled
La Estética de do Raro y lo Excéntrico en la Ficción Latinoamericana: de
Horacio Quiroga a Silvina OCampo. Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 7th, 2014.
Advisor of Taiko Haessler. PhD. student. University of Colorado at
Boulder. Spring 2013 – Spring 2014.
Member of the committee of Mariana Bolívar Rubín’s Ph.D. exam titled
Líderes y Multitudes en Latinoamerica: el caso venezolano. Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 11th,
2013.
Member of the committee of Javier González Gimbernat’s Ph.D. exam
titled New cultural identities through literature and rock music in Latin
America (Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil). Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder, Feb. 15th, 2013.
Supervisor of Márcia Gobbi, Full Professor at the State University of São
Paulo Araraquara, Brazil. Visiting scholar at the University of Colorado at
Boulder as post-doctoral researcher. Oct. 1st – Nov. 30th, 2012.
Advisor of Renee Payne Honor’s Thesis. Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder. Fall 2011- Spring 2012.
Date of defense: April 9th, 2012. summa cum laude.
Advisor of Robert Maxwell Aguiar Honor’s Thesis. Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder. Nov. 2010
-Oct. 2011. Date of defense: Oct 26th, 2011. summa cum laude.
Member of ACB (Academic Consortium Board) Committee. Evaluation of
Study Abroad Program, CIEE-Lisbon. Feb. 26th- March 4th, 2011.
Member of the committee of Denise Pelusch’s Ph.D. exam titled
Pianolatria in Cafelandia: Mário de Andrade’s “Social Evolution of
Music in Brazil”, an Annotated Translation. Department of Music,
University of Colorado at Boulder, Dec. 10th 2010.
Advisor of Gabriela Bravo-Souza, undergraduate student of Latin
American Studies. Presentation of senior essay on April 2010 at the
“Mellon Forum”, Yale University. Title of Senior Essay: “Ecotourism as
Political Power in Brazilian Quilombos”. August 2009 – March 2010.
Sophmore Advisor of Charles Osborne at Yale University. May 2009 –
May 2010.
Sophmore Advisor of Michael Blume at Yale University. May 2009 – May
2010.
Sophmore Advisor of Andrew Cantú at Yale University. May 2008 – May
2009.
Book review for Yale University Press: Português Básico para
Estrangeiros, by Rejane de Oliveira Slade. 2007. Revised and published in
2012: Bom Dia, Brasil. Yale University Press.
Advisor/Faculty Sponsor of Franklin Justice, honors student in Political
Science. Title of senior project: “Foreign Perception of the United States:
A Brazilian Viewpoint”, University of Rhode Island, August 2004 – May
2005. Winner of the University of Rhode Island’s “Grace B. Sherrer
Award” and the “Presidents Excellence Award.”
Innovative pedagogical materials – Electronic media produced for
student use:
Created and designed web-based Portuguese activities with poetry read by
Portuguese and Brazilian performers, film clips, interviews, and music
videos in order to develop the students’ skills in speaking, reading,
listening and writing. For students of basic and intermediate Portuguese.
Redesigned by Marcelo Schincariol (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder) in
http://practiceportuguese.wordpress.com/bem-vindo/
Professional development:
Spanish 790 – Methodologies of Modern Language Teaching. Yale
University. January-May 2007.
Prep. course for grading academic essays of freshmen students.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Sept. 12 – Nov. 14, 1998.
Italian - Language and Culture. Universidade Estadual de Campinas Extension Program. Sept. 11 – Nov. 13, 1998.
6. SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Co-designer and co-director with Marcelo Schincariol and Colleen
Scanlan Lyons of Global Seminar: “PORT3270 Development,
Governance, and Entrepreneurship in Brazil”, an interdisciplinary summer
program in the Amazon, Bahia and Maranhão, Brazil. Course creation:
2013-2014; implementation: summer 2015.
Member of Fulbright College Interview Committee. Office of
International Education, University of Colorado at Boulder. October,
2013.
Member of Scientific Board for the ““First International Social Sciences
Conference and Second meeting of the Brazil-US Network on
Environment, Society, Governance”. June 2013, Federal University of
Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil.
Lead Participant/Member of Executive Board of Brazil-US Network on
Environment, Society, Governance (CU, USP, UFMA). Spring 2012 –
present.
Colleen Scanlan-Lyons, T. Martuscelli et al. (org.) Bridging the
Humanities and the Sciences: a U.S.-Brazil Collaboration. University of
Colorado at Boulder. April 9-13, 2012. Meeting results: Formation of
“Brazil-US Network on Environment, Society, Governance”. With this
network the group seeks to share knowledge, and stimulate Brazilian and
U.S. students to learn, and produce academic texts jointly.
Member of External Editorial Board of Revista Mosaicos, State University
of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. June 2012 – present.
Designer of the Portuguese Minor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Fall 2011-present.
Co-Lead Participant of Latin American Studies Center – Brazil Research
Cluster, with Donna Goldstein and Colleen Scanlan-Lyons. Fall 2011 –
present.
Member of Faculty Advisors of Revista Calandria, University of Colorado
at Boulder, USA. 2011 – present.
Leila Gomez, T. Martuscelli, and Latin American Studies Center (org.)
Latin American Film Series. University of Colorado at Boulder. Every
Friday from March to April 2012. Presented Brazilian film Adrift, directed
by Heitor Dhalia. April 20th, 2012.
“Cláudia Roquette-Pinto, Brazilian Poet”, organized the event, and
presented the poet. Oct 27th, 2011.
Leila Gomez, and T. Martuscelli (org.) Latin American and Iberian Film
Series. University of Colorado at Boulder. Every Friday from April 1 to
April 29, 2011. Presented Brazilian film Love for Sale.
T. Martuscelli, and Marcelo Schincariol (org.) Brazilian Film and Food
event. University of Colorado at Boulder. November 2 and 9, 2010.
Presented Brazilian film If Nothing Else Works Out. Nov. 2nd, 2010.
PORT222 Field Research Trip to Maranhão. March 8-21, 2009. Article on
the trip, “Field Research Trip to Maranhao” published in The MacMillan
Center. [Yale University] Spring 2009: 10.
T. Martuscelli, and Stuart Schwartz (org.) Council on Latin American &
Iberian Studies Spring 2008 Film Series “Brazil”, in conjunction with
courses “History of Brazil” & “Portuguese Language and
Socio-Environmental Issues”. Yale University, January-April 2008.
Portuguese Halloween Party. Film screened: Coisa Ruim (Portugal, 2006)
Directed by Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra.
Yale University, October 31, 2007.
Brazilian Halloween Party. Film screened: À Meia-Noite Levarei sua
Alma (Brazil, 1963) Directed by José Mojica Marins.
Yale University, October 31, 2006.
VI Film and Food Festival of the Portuguese-Speaking World.
University of Rhode Island, April 27, 2006. Film screened: O Herói.
(Angola, 2006) Directed by Zezé Gamboa. Article on the event, “Angolan
culture celebrated with food, war film”, published in Good 5 Cent Cigar.
[University of Rhode Island] April 28, 2006: 7.
V Film and Food Festival of the Portuguese-Speaking World, University
of Rhode Island, December 5, 2005. Film screened: Nha Fala (Guinea
Bissau, 2002) Directed by Flora Gomes.
IV Film and Food Festival of the Portuguese-Speaking World. University
of Rhode Island, May 3, 2005. Film screened: Abril Despedaçado (Brazil,
2001) Directed by Walter Salles.
III Film and Food Festival of the Portuguese-Speaking World. University
of Rhode Island, December 8, 2004. Film screened: Fintar o Destino
(Cape Verde, 1998) Directed by Fernando Vendrell.
II Film and Food Festival of the Portuguese-Speaking World. University
of Rhode Island, April 7, 2004. Film screened: Viagem ao Princípio do
Mundo. (Portugal, 1997) Directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
Film and Food Festival of the Portuguese-Speaking World. University of
Rhode Island, December 3, 2003. Film screened: Central do Brasil
(Brazil, 1998) Directed by Walter Salles.
7. ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIP
BRASA – Brazilian Studies Association
Brazil-US Network - Environment, Society, and Governance. Member
of research group “Sociedade, Ambiente e Literatura” (SAL).
LASC - Latin American Studies Center, Brazil Research Cluster
APSA – American Portuguese Studies Association
MSA - Modernist Studies Association
RMMLA – Rocky Mountain Modern Language Associa