Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Current Graduate Students
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João Pedro Coleta
Research Interests Brazilian Literature; Latin American Literature; Literature and Anthropology; Travel Literature; Contemporary Novel; Ethnographic Accounts; Ethnographic Novel; Ecocriticism; Literature by Indigenous Peoples -
Luis Costa
Research Interests Brazilian Literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, Brazilian Social Thought, nation-building, miscegenation, "sertão", Guimarães Rosa -
Kevin W. Ennis
Research Interests Amazonian Literature; Indigenous Literatures from Latin America; Narratives of Extractivism; Colonial Latin American Writings; Contemporary Portuguese, Lusophone African, and Lusophone Asian Narratives of Return, Displacement, and Migration -
Joyce Fernandes
Research Interests African Literature in Portuguese; Literary Translation; Brazilian Contemporary Literature; Postmemory; Decolonial Studies; Women's Literature; Gender Studies; Trauma Studies; Second Language Pedagogies; Inclusive and Queer Pedagogies -
Maria Frigotto
Research Interests Contemporary Brazilian Literature; Latin American Black Studies & Literature; Lusophone African Literature; Queer Theory; Performance Studies -
Jamie Giunta
Research Interests Lusophone Cities; Urban Space; Citizenship; Activist Literature; Translation Studies; Brazilian Contemporary Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Lusophone Migration Narratives; Ethnicity and Race Studies -
Heloisa Krüger
Research Interests Latin American Literature and Cultures; Brazilian Literature and Music; Gender and Queer Studies; Critical Carceral Studies -
Andressa Maia
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Alexsandro Menez
Research Interests Brazilian and Portuguese Nationalism 18th - 19th; Brazilian and Portuguese Literary Historiography 19th to mid 20th; Portuguese Overseas Exploration 15th-16th; Gaúcho Regionalism; Intellectual History; Romanticism, and Nationalist Studies -
Karyn Mota
Office Hours Wed 10am - 12pmResearch Interests Contemporary Brazilian Literature & Culture, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana and Black Studies, Portuguese and Lusophone African Literature, Communications, Digital Humanities -
Mariana Mota
Research Interests Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Brazilian Contemporary Literature; Latin American Literatures; Queer Ecologies; Time and Space in Literature; Futurities; Utopias; Dystopias; Chaos; Fiction -
Torin Spangler
Research Interests Colonial and Contemporary Lusophone African Fiction; Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Historical Fiction and Historiographic Metafiction; Angolan & Mozambican History & Historiography; Portuguese Colonial & Postcolonial Studies; Judaic Studies -
Michael Tufft
Research Interests Gender and Sexuality in 19th Century Brazil; Aluísio de Azevedo; Júlia Lopes de Almeida; Eça de Queiroz -
Renata Villon
Research Interests Animal Studies; Gender Studies; Female Authorship; Literary translation; Biopolitics; Ecocriticism; Brazilian Literature and Culture; Animal Representations in Modern Literature; Latin-American Identities; Environmental Crisis in Literature