Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Fernando Arenas

Fernando Arenas

Curriculum Vitae

 Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Fall 2009 Office Hours: THURS: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Office: 31 Folwell
Phone: 612-625-2331
Email: arena002@umn.edu
Scholarly Interests: • Lusophone Africa • Brazil • Portugal • comparative interdisciplinary studies in the Lusophone world (including literature, film, popular music, history, critical theory) • globalization • (post)colonialism • nationhood • modernities • sexuality and gender.
Educational Background
  • Ph.D.: Luso-Brazilian Literatures, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
Publications
  • Author of Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
  • Co-editor of Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World (University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
Awards
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005 - 2006 for completion of manuscript, After Independence: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and the Cultures of Lusophone Africa (in progress).
Visiting Professorships
  • Universidade Federal Fluminense (2002)
  • Harvard University (2003).
Courses Taught
  • Port 3800 - Film Studies in Portuguese
  • Port 3920 - Popular Music in the Portuguese-Speaking World
  • SPPT 5530 - Discourses of Sexuality in Portuguese and Spanish-Speaking Worlds
  • Port 5540 - Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa
  • Port 5910 - Lusophone Transatlantic Matrix
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