Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

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Torin Spangler

torin_spangler@brown.edu
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

Biography

Hometown

South Salem, NY

Education Background

B.A. McGill University, QC, Canada (History); M.A. Leiden University, Netherlands (African Studies); PgC (Postgraduate Certificate) University of Lisbon (Translation Practices)

Publications

Selected Journalistic Texts

  • “Whose Colonial Project? Angolan Elites and the Colonial Exhibitions of the 1930s: Notes on the Special Magazine Edition of ‘A província de Angola,’ August 15, 1934”. e-Journal of Portuguese History, Vol. 16, number 1, June 2018, pp. 96-116.

Selected Conference Papers

  • "Segregation and Injustice in the Colonial Angolan City, ca. 1961: A Sociohistorical Reading of Luandino Vieira and Manuel Rui", IV CHAM International Conference: Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019.
  • "The Press and Literary Production in Angola", 45th Meeting of the African Literature Association, Columbus, Ohio, May 2019.
  • “Whose Colonial Project? Angolan Elites and the Colonial Exhibitions of the 1930s”, 11th International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Oct. 18-20, 2018.
  • “The Sertão (‘Backlands’) as a Literary Topos in Colonial Angola and Brazil”, 44th Meeting of the African Literature Association, Washington, D.C., May 23-26, 2018.

Teaching

Courses Taught at Brown

  • POBS 110 - Intensive Portuguese
  • POBS 400 - Writing and Speaking Portuguese
  • POBS 100 - Elementary Portuguese
  • POBS 280 - Mapping Food, Eating Meaning, Making Community: A Welcome to the Lusophone World
  • POBS 620 - Mapping Portuguese-Speaking Cultures: Portugal and Africa