Department Affiliations

• Spanish & Portuguese

Specialties

• Feminist and Gender Studies
• Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures
• Critical Race Studies
• Colonial/Postcolonial Studies
• Medieval and Renaissance Literatures

Degrees and Institutions

• Ph.D. Luso-Brazilian Literature, New York University, 1989
• M.A.  Hispanic Literatures, New York University, 1982
• B.A.  French and Spanish/Secondary Education, Montclair State University, 1979

Current Research Projects

• “Mirages of the Real: The Ethical Appeal of Lídia Jorge’s Fictions.” Book length study of the Real in its connection with desire and the tragic subject in Jorge’s localized and, thereby, epistemologically broader, southern fictions of postcolonial globalization.   
• “Heretically Speaking: ‘Race’ in Postcolonial Portuguese.” Book length study of how the literatures of Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique at different points in time carry forth and select from cultural inheritances embroiled in ideologies of ‘race’.  Emphasis on the economics of race and gender.

Recent Selected Publications

• “Heretically Speaking: ‘Race’, Racisms, and Nations in Lusophone African Literatures.” In tRACES. Ed. Kim Benita Furumoto. Foreword David Goldberg. Duke UP, Forthcoming 2008.
• “As Mulheres de Saramago na ‘Jangada da Significação.” In Da Possibilidade do Impossível: Leituras de Saramago. Ed. José Ornelas and Paulo de Medeiros. Utrecht: University of Utrecht, Portuguese Studies Center, 2008:, 89-98.
• “Maria Lamas e o Mito do Amor Romântico.” In A Memória, a Obra e o Pensamento de Maria Lamas. Ed. Regina Marques. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2008: 13-42.
• “Specificity without Exceptionalism: Towards a Critical Lusophone Postcoloniality.” In Lusophones Literatures and Postcolonialism. Ed. Paulo de Medeiros. Utrecht: University of Utrecht, Portuguese Studies Center, 2007: 21-40.
• “'Feminine Poetry' for Nationalist Consumption or, Making Room for the Ladies in a Nation of Poets.” In Tradições Portuguesas / Portuguese Traditions: In Honor of Claude L. Hulet. Eds. Francisco Cota Fagundes and Irene Maria F. Blayer. San Jose: Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, 2007: 159-177.
• “Donning the ‘Gift’ of Representation: Lídia Jorge’s A
Instrumentalina.” Requested Rpt. and translation of article #23 below:http://instrumentalina.blogs.sapo.pt/13682.html
• “Entre Nós: A Conversation with Lídia Jorge.” With Amélia Hutcheon. Ellipsis 3 (2005): 141-55.