Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

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Kevin W. Ennis

kevin_ennis@brown.edu
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

Biography

Hometown

Cranston, RI

Education Background

B.A. Latin American Studies and Portuguese, Yale University, 2017.

Publications

Selected Conference Papers

  • “O mapeamento do Acre em Galvez, Imperador do Acre de Márcio Souza e Mulheres empilhadas de Patrícia Melo.” III Congresso da ABRE. Virtual. 20-24 September 2021.
  • “Temporal and Genealogical Intimacy in the Rainforests of Davi Kopenawa and Márcia Wayna Kambeba.” EmergencE/Y: ASLE 2021 Virtual Conference. Virtual. 26 July-6 August 2021.
  • “La inmensidad física y sonora de la selva de Mal de gente de Arturo Burga Freitas.” LASA 2021: Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida. Virtual. 26-29 May 2021.
  • “The Decolonial and Political Work of A queda do céu and Antes o mundo não existia.” 52nd Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Virtual. 11-14 March 2021.
  • “Tensions between Ethnographer and Ethnographic Subject in Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino’s Rio acima.” SAMLA 91: Languages: Identity, Power, Relationships. Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, GA. 15-17 November 2019.
  • “Constructions of Identity and Narrative in José Eduardo Agualusa’s O vendedor de passados.” 11th International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 18-20 October 2018.

Teaching

Courses Taught at Brown

  • POBS 0105: Accelerated Portuguese (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021)
  • POBS 0400: Writing and Speaking Portuguese (Spring 2022)
  • COLT 0710N: A Comparative Introduction to the Literatures of the Americas (Fall 2021)

Awards

  • Brown Executive Scholars Training (BEST) Program, Spring 2021
  • Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Collaborative Humanities, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, 2019-2020
  • Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Fulbright Commission Portugal, 2017-2018