1 CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL NAME: Lúcia Helena Costigan

CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL
NAME: Lúcia Helena Costigan
Address:
Work:
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
266 Cunz Hall of Languages
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus OH 43221
Tel: 614-292-4958
Fax: 614-292-7726
Voice mail: 614-292-0833
E-mail: [email protected]
CURRENT RANK AND PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
Tenured Associate Prof. of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Sept. 1997-present
Visiting Associate Professor and Scholar, Latin American Literature
Department of Romance Studies
Sept. 1996-June 1997
Duke University
Tenured Associate Prof. of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Assistant Professor Depto. de Ciências Humanas e Letras
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Cuiabá, MT Brazil
High School Language and Literature Teacher
English and Portuguese
Colégio O. Pitaluga
Rondonópolis, Brazil
Sept. 1994-Sept. 1996
Sept. 1988-Aug. 1994
Sept. 1978-Aug. 1982
March 1974-July1976
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Spanish, University of Pittsburgh, 1988
Major: Latin American Literatures
Minor: Teaching Methodologies and Applied Linguistics
Dissertation: "A sátira colonial criolla na poesia de Gregório de Matos e de Juan del Valle Caviedes."
Director: Dr. John R. Beverley
M.A
Spanish (and a Certificate in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies)
University of Pittsburgh, 1985
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M.Ed. School Administration and Supervison
Boston College, 1978
B.A.
Modern Languages and Literatures
Major: English and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil), 1974
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Editions
1998
Costigan, Lúcia Helena, director. Leopoldo Bernucci and Lúcia H. Costigan, coords. “O Brasil, a
América Hispânica e o Caribe: Abordagens Comparativas.” Revista Iberoamericana 64, 182-183,
enero-junio, 1998. 340 pp.
1996
Costigan, Lúcia H., guest editor and director. “O comparatismo na América Latina: Abordagem
cultural/situações coloniais e pós-coloniais.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 45,
Sección Monográfica I. 1er semester, 1997.
1992
---- and Beatriz González Stephan, coords. Crítica y descolonización: El
sujeto colonial en la cultura latinoamericana. Caracas: Academia Nacional de la Historia. Pp.
669.
Reviewed in: Revista Iberoamericana 172-173 (1995): 703-705
Notas: Reseñas Iberoamericanas. Literatura, sociedad, historia 2 (1994): 58-60.
Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 22:2 (1993):162-163.
1991
----, A sátira e o intelectual criollo na colônia: Gregório de Matos e Juan del Valle y Caviedes.
Pittsburgh-Lima: Latinoamericana Editores. Pp. 171.
Reviewed in: Luso-Brazilian Review 31:1(1994): 137-139.
Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 23:2(1994):155-156.
Colonial Latin American Review 2(1993):300-302.
Brasil/Brazil 8(1992)5:97-100.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2003
“Resistência e empreendimento da diáspora cristã-nova no reinado de Filipe II: O exemplo de
Bento Teixeira.” Colonial Latin American Review. Vol.12, No.1, 37-61.
2002
“The ‘Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in (Latin)American Studies: An NEH Summer
Institute.” Hispania 85.3 (September): 644-648.
2000
“Manifestaciones del judaísmo y ‘colonización de lo imaginario’ en Iberomérica durante la
primera fase moderna del imperio español.” Revista Iberoamericana 66, 191 (abril-junio): 299308.
1998
“Exclusões (e inclusões) na historiografia e na crítica literária latino-americana: do índio ao
judeu.” Revista Iberoamericana 64, 182-183 (enero-junio): 55-80.
1997
“Intelectuais pós-modernos e letrados barrocos (criptojudeus): globalização, meio-ambiente e
crítica de oposição.” Revista do Instituto de Filosofia, Artes e Cultura da Universidade de Ouro
Preto 4, (dezembro): 30-38.
1997
“Letrados barrocos e intelectuais pós-modernos: Literatura, meio-ambiente e questões sócioantropológicas.” Revista Iberoamericana 63, 181 (octubre-diciembre): 607-620.
1996
“O diálogo Brasil/América Hispânica: balanço e questões teóricas.”
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Revista de Crítica Literária Latinoamericana 45: 13-26.
1996
“El criptojudío en la literatura brasileña e hispanoamericana: De lo colonial a lo postcolonial.”
Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias 8 (2): 11-26.
1995
“O cristão-novo letrado como sujeito colonial no Brazil e no México seiscentista: questões
historiográficas e canônicas.” Revista Iberoamericana 172-173: 651-661.
1994
"A experiência do converso letrado Bento Teixeira: um missing link na história intelectual e
literária do Brasil-colônia." Revista de Crítica Literária Latinoamericana 40: 77-92.
1992
"Historiografia, discurso e contra discurso na colônia: Gregório de Matos e Juan del Valle y
Caviedes." Hispania 75: 508-515.
1992
"Relendo o Diente del Parnaso de Juan del Valle y Caviedes: Uma contribuição para o estudo do
intelectual criollo." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos: Letras Coloniales 19: 211-220.
1992
"Literatura e ditadura: Aspectos da ficção brasileira pós-64 em alguns dos escritos de Lygia
Fagundes Telles e de Nélida Piñón." Hispanic Journal 13:141-151.
1990
"De Gregório a Gonzaga: nacionalismo ou conservadorismo?" Luso-Brazilian Review 27 ( 2):
11-24.
1990
"Gregório de Matos: `The Mouth of Hell'." Review: Latin American Literature and Arts (JulyDecember): 53-59.
1988
"A conflitividade do intelectual criollo: Poesia satírica de Gregório de Matos." Revista de Crítica
Literaria Latinoamericana 28: 305-316.
1988
"Em torno do barroco ibero-americano e da sátira de Caviedes e de Gregório de Matos."
CHASQUI: Revista Lationoamericana 17(1): 93-101.
Chapters/Articles in Edited Collections
2003
“Jesuits, Baroque, Neoclassicism.” Dictionary of Luso-Brazilian Literatures. Charlotte, S. C.:
South Carolina Press (forthcoming)
2000
“Épica e Inquisição no Novo Mundo: A Prosopopéia segundo o Processo 5.206 da Inquisição de
Lisboa.” La formación de la cultura virreinal: I. La etapa inicial. Eds. Karl Kohut y Sonia V.
Rose. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 161-180.
1997
“Barroco e Pós-Modernismo: A preocupação pelo meio-ambiente nos escritos dos letrados do
Brasil colonial.” Barrocos y Modernos: nuevos caminos en la investigación del barroco
iberoamericano. Org. Petra Schumm. Frankfurt/Main: Klaus Dieter Vervuert, 127-139.
1994
"Colonial Literature and Social Reality in Brazil and the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Satirical
Poetry of Gregório de Matos and Juan del Valle y Caviedes." Coded Encounters: Writing,
Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America, eds. Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau . . .[et
al.] Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 87-100.
1994
"La cultura barroca y el nacimiento de la conciencia criolla en el Brasil.” Relecturas del Barroco
de Indias, ed. Mabel Moraña. Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 303-330.
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1992
"Las Cartas chilenas y la historia cultural del ‘Siglo de Oro’ brasileño. Crítica y descolonización:
El sujeto colonial en la cultura latinoamericana, ed. Beatriz González Stephan and Lúcia Helena
Costigan. Caracas: Academia Nacional de la Historia, 585-596.
1991
"Gregório de Matos: Um mazombo no Purgatório." Toward Social Criticism: Luso-Brazilian
Literatures, ed. Roberto Reis. Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State
University Press, 143-152.
Review Articles/Book Reviews
2003
Research in African Literatures. Peter Mark. ‘Portuguese’ Style and Luso-African Identity:
Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 2001. (forthcoming)
1998
Revista Iberoamericana vol.64, 182-183. Regina Igel. Imigrantes judeus/Escritores brasileiros: o
componente judaico na literatura brasileira. Prefácio de Rubens Ricupero]. São Paulo:
Perspectiva: Associação Universitária de Cultura Judaica: Banco Safra, 1997.
1997
Colonial Latin American Review “The Impact of Gender, Ethnic and Cultural Studies on
Colonial Latin American Research.” (Review article based on: Mujer y cultura en la colonia
hispanoamericana, ed. Mabel Moraña; Las colonias del Nuevo Mundo: cultura y sociedad, ed.
Carmen Pirilli; Amor y violencia sexual, ed. Ward Stavig): 225-233.
1995
Revista Iberoamericana 172-173: 715 Janice Theodoro. América Barroca. São Paulo: Editora da
Universidade de São Paulo/Editora Nova Fronteira, 1992.
1995
Revista Iberoamericana 172-173: 713-714. Julie Greer Johnson. Satire in Colonial Spanish
America: Turning the New World Upside Down. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
1995
Colonial Latin American Historical Review 4: 104-107. Ronaldo Vainfas, ed. América em tempo
de conquista. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1992.
1992
Colonial Latin American Review 1-2:284-285. Hansen, João Adolpho.
A sátira e o engenho: Gregório de Matos e a Bahia do século XVII. São Paulo: Companhia das
Letras/Secretaria do Estado e da Cultura, 1989.
1992
The Modern Language Journal 76.4:572-573.
Tolman, Jon M., Ricardo M. Paiva, Nivea P. Parsons, and John B. Jansen. 1989 Travessia: A
Video-Based Textbook. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
1990
Modern Language Journal 74.4:540-541.
Stansfield, Charles W., Dorry Kenyon, Fatima Doyle, Ricardo Paiva, Ines Ulsh and Maria
Antônia Cowles. 1988. Portuguese Speaking Test. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied
Linguistics.
1988
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 28:369-370.
Reedy, Daniel. 1984. Juan del Valle y Caviedes: Obra completa. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho.
1984
Revista Iberoamericana 126:310.
Slater, Candace. 1982. Stories on a String: Brazilian Literatura de Cordel. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2003-AATSP Summer Scholarship (To study and conduct research in Spain), $4, 800.00.
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2002- Grant-in-Aid from the College of Humanities to travel to Brazil to deliver a paper at the International
Meeting of the Brazilian Comparative Literature Association (ABRALIC) in Belo Horizonte, and at the
American Association of Teachers Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002-Faculty Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, OSU, $400.00.
2000-1 National Endowment for the Humanities ($177,000.00) Grant to direct an Institute for
College/University Teachers on the Campus of The Ohio State University. Title of the Project: “The
Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies.
2000-1 Seed Money Grant from the Office of International Studies ($9.302.00)
1999-2000 Office of International Studies Grant for Interdisciplinary Conferences: “BRAZIL 500: A
CELEBRATION OF 500 YEARS OF BRAZIL.” Co-chaired with Prof. E. Riedinger and supported by the
Center for Latin American Studies.
2000-1 Grant-in-Aid from the Melton Center for Jewish Studies (1,000) to conduct research in Spain and
in Amsterdam during the month of June, 2000.
2000-1 Grant-in-Aid from the College of Humanities ($600) to deliver a paper at the Conference of the
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, in Salamanca, Spain.
1997-8 Luso-American Development Foundation, Biblioteca Nacional and Instituto Nacional do Livro,
Lisboa. The Emergence of Jewish Popular Traditions in the Portuguese Culture during the Renaissance and
Baroque.
1995-6 American Council of Learned Societies Literature and the Inquisition in the New World: The
Discourse of the “Converso Letrado.”
1994
The Ohio State University, College of Humanities-Grant-in-Aid. Archival research in Portugal
and Spain “Literature and the Inquisition in the New World.”
1994
The Ohio State University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. “Special Research
Assignment”, Spring Quarter.
1993
Latin American Studies Travel Grant, The Ohio State University
"The Experience of Intellectual New Christians in Colonial Latin America."
Archival research in Mexico (Archivo General de la Nación) and in Portugal (Torre do Tombo).
1992
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
"The Experience of Intellectual New Christians in Colonial Latin America."
1992
The Ohio State University Seed Grant
"The Literary Production and the Experience of Jewish Intellectuals in Colonial Luso-Brazilian and
Spanish American Societies."
1991
The Ohio State Columbian Quincentenary Committee -Book
Subvention. Crítica y descolonización: El sujeto colonial en la cultura latinoamericana.
1991
Fulbright Hays Grant- Group Project in Brazil
"The 1991 Summer Advanced Intensive Portuguese Language Group Project in Brazil."
1991
The Touro National Heritage Fellowship at The John Carter Brown Library
1990
The Ohio State University College of Humanities-Book Subvention
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A sátira e o intelectual criollo na Colônia: Gregório de Matos e Juan del Valle y Caviedes.
1990
The Ohio State University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
“Special Research Assignment,” Spring Quarter.
1989
Lilly Teaching Grant
"Portuguese Undergraduate Teaching and Curriculum Development.”
The Ohio State University
1983
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.
1976-8 Organization of American States Graduate Studies Fellowship, Boston
College.
INVITED PAPERS/INVITED LECTURES
Universität Erfurt, Germany. “ ‘O gigante invisível’: O Brasil e a literatura latino-americana nos Estados
Unidos.” March 6-9, 2003.
Institut Universitaire Europeen, “Literatura e Império/Literature and Empire.” Florence, November 28-30,
2002.
Tulane University, Center for Jewish Studies, “Secrecy and Resistance in the Writings of Crypto-Jews
from Mexico and Brazil.” Conference on The Jewish Experience in the Southern Americas. New Orleans,
April 7-9, 2000.
Tulane University. “Letrados criptojudíos y ‘colonización del imaginario’ en México y Perú durante el
reinado de Felipe II.” March 19, 1999.
Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerika Studien, Eischtätt, Germany,“O converso letrado: Uma página em branco
na crítica e na historiografia do período colonial.” Simposio Internacional sobre La formación de la cultura
iberoamericana: tradiciones cultas y realidad colonial (siglo XVI y principios del XVII), November 19-22,
1997.
University of Pittsburgh,Hispanic Languages and Literatures, “El judío letrado: Del Brasil postmoderno al
colonial,” Hispanic Languages and Literatures and Center for Latin American Studies, October 24, 1997.
Bogotá, Colombia, “Do diálogo Pós-Moderno e Barroco e do zelo pela natureza nos escritos de letrados
coloniais.” Programa Internacional Interdisciplinario de Estudios Culturales Sobre América Latina, March
6-10, 1996.
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, “Novela contemporânea: sujeitos coloniais.” Programa Internacional
Interdisciplinario de Estudios Culturales Sobre América Latina, 12-16 marzo, 1996.
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida“Lo mestizo y lo crioulo en Brasil.” Encuentro Cultural, El
Nacimiento de dos Naturalezas: Lo Criollo y los Mestizo en Hispanoamérica, , 28-29 de marzo de 1996.
Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna. Lisboa, “Minas de ouro, engenhos de açúcar e conversos
letrados.” Conference on the Baroque in Geographic Areas of Portuguese Influence. (April 15-18, 1994).
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, “The Converso Letrado as a
Colonial Subject: The Case of Bento Teixeira.”, January 26, 1994.
The Ohio State University, Melton Center for Jewish Studies "Conversos and the Perceptions of Otherness
in the New World." June 4, 1993.
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University of Notre Dame, Department of Romance Languages "The Inquisition in the New World
(Spanish America and Brazil): The Drama of the letrado converso", March 24, 1993.
West Virginia University, Department of Romance Languages, "Brazil Today." November 12, 1987.
PAPERS READ AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“O Brasil e os estudos latino-americanos em perspectiva comparada. (Ratisbona/ Regensburg, March 6-9,
2003).
“A recepção de Carolina Maria de Jesus e de Benedita da Silva nos Estados Unidos.” II Simpósio
Internacional de Estudos Africanos. (Belo Horizonte, 11a 13 de novembro, 2002).
“Épica e resistência imperial: A Prosopopéia de Bento Teixeira.” Florence: Institut Universitaire Europeen.
November, 27-29, 2002).
“The Invisible Giant’: The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies.” Workshop at the 84th Annual
Meeting of the AATSP. (Rio de Janeiro, July 29-August 2, 2002).
“O dito e o não dito: a representação do negro em dois textos latino-americanos do século XVIII .” VIII
Congresso Internacional da ABRALIC. (Belo Horizonte, 23-26 de julho, 2002).
“Trauma, Defacement, and Empowerment in Luis de Carvajal’s Memorias.” 2001 MLA Convention. (New
Orleans. 27-30 December, 2001).
“Resistência à política filipina no processo inquisitorial de Bento Teixeira LASA, Washington, D.C.
September 6-9, 2001.
“Manifestaciones de cripto-judaísmo en la literatura colonial brasileña e hispanoamericana.” 50th
International Congress of Americanists (Warsaw, July 10-14, 2000).
“Novela histórica e Inquisição: De José Saramago a Assis Brasil.” XXXIII Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana,Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, June 26-30, 2000).
“O cristão-novo e o processo de ocidentalização durante a anexação de Portugal ao Império Espanhol:
Uma leitura a partir da Prosopopéia e do Processo 5206 da
Inquisição de Lisboa.” VI Congresso da
Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas. (Rio de Janeiro, August 8-16, 1999).
“A intertextualidade como crítica social no teatro de Antonio José da Silva, o Judeu.” Congress of the
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. (Madrid, July 30-Aug. 4, 1998).
“Nature, Environment and Socio-Anthropological Issues in the Work of Colonial and Postcolonial Latin
American Writers.” The Second Biennial ASLE Conference (Missoula, July 17-20, 1997).
“Jesuítas e judeus no diálogo da conversão: Antônio Vieira e Menasseh Ben Israel.” XX International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (Guadalajara, April 17-19,1997).
“O comparatismo Brasil/América Hispânica: balanço e questões teóricas.” 5o. Congresso Internacional
da Associação de Literatura Comparada-ABRALIC (Rio de Janeiro-Brasil, July 30-August 02, 1996).
“El criptojudío letrado en la literatura brasileña e hispanoamericana: De lo posmoderno a lo colonial.” VIII
International Latin American Jewish Association Congress (Mexico, D.F., November 10-15, 1995).
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“O letrado cristão-novo como sujeito colonial no Brasil e na América Hispânica.” XIX International Latin
American Studies Association Congress (Washington, D.C., September 28-30, 1995).
“O Marquês de Pombal e a Arcádia Mineira: Questões Historiográficas do Brazil Setecentista.” MLA
Conference (Toronto, December, 27-30, 1993).
"O letrado cristão-novo: um missing link na história colonial e literária do Brasil-colônia." Latin America:
New Directions in Literary Theory and Criticism IV. Dartmouth College (April 9-11, 1993).
"Cristo o Moisés?: El converso en el contexto colonial mexicano y brasileño." II Jornadas Metropolitanas
del V Centenario, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México, D.F. 23-27 de Febrero).
"The Experience of Intellectuals of Jewish Origin in Colonial Latin America: Luis de Carvajal (El Mozo)
and Antonio José da Silva." XVII International Congress, LASA (Los Angeles-September 24-27, 1992).
"Notes on Colonial Brazilian Discourse: The Case of the Cartas Chilenas." NEMLA Convention
(Hartford, CN. April 5-7, 1991).
"The Treason of the Canon: Guerras do Alecrim e Manjerona by Antonio José da Silva." MLA
Conference (Chicago, December, 27-30, 1990).
"Dissidência e conservadorismo no discurso colonial brasileiro: Do Barroco à Arcádia." XXVIII
Congresso do Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (Brown University, June, 18-21, 1990).
"Colonial Literature and Social Reality in Brazil and the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Satirical Poetry of
Gregório de Matos and Juan del Valle y Caviedes." Reflections of Social Reality Writings in Colonial
Latin America, A Five College Symposium honoring Lewis Hanke (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst,
April, 19-21, 1990).
"De Gregório a Gonzaga: nacionalismo ou conservadorismo?" M/MLA (Minneapolis, Oct. 11, 1989).
"Literatura e Ditadura: Aspectos sócio-políticos da produção literária brasileira pós-64, através de alguns
dos escritos de Lygia Fagundes Telles e de Nélida Piñón" NEMLA (March 31, 1989).
"Gregório de Matos Guerra: Um mazombo no Purgatório." Luso-Brazilian Literatures: A Socio-Critical
Approach (University of Minnesota, October 21-22, 1988).
"La conflictividad de la cultura colonial barroca en Iberoamérica y la situación del intelectual criollo en la
poesía de Gregório de Matos." Seminar on Baroque and Neo-Baroque (Cornell University and University
of Pittsburgh, March 6-7, 1987).
"Uma interpretação carnavalesca do regime militar no Brasil através de João Balalão de Sérgio Tapajós."
Mid Atlantic Association of Luso-Brazilianists (Dickinson College, PA. October 10, 1987).
CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED/ORGANIZED
“The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies: An NEH Summer Institute.” A Worshop to be held at the
AATSP 84th Annual Meeting. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 29-August 2, 2002).
“Contemporary Spanish Cinema.” Chair. Spain in the Twenty-Frist Century:
Literature, the Arts, and
Culture: An International Symposium. Director of the Symposium. Samuel Amell. Columbus, Ohio
(Nov.1-4, 2000).
“Brasil 500: A Series of Film, Lectures, Music, and Artistic Events to Celebrate the Quincentennary of the
Arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil.” Co-chaired with Edward Riedinger. Sponsored by the Office of
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International Studies, the Latin American Studies Program, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
The Melton Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Center for
African Studies and the School of Music at OSU.
(Columbus, OH, January-June, 2000).
“A Place for Brazil Within LASA: Multidisciplinary and Comparative Approaches.”XXI International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (Chicago, September 24-26, 1998).
“Globalização vs. regionalismo: movimentos de resistência e de luta pela terra.” IV Brazilian Studies
Association Congress (Washignton, DC., November 12-15, 1997).
“O comparatismo Brasil/América (Hispânica): Sentido e Direções para o Novo Milênio.” XX
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (Guadalajara, April 17-19,1997).
“Más allá/além de Tordesilhas: Rompendo barreiras, estreitando laços culturais entre o Brasil e o Mundo
Hispánico.” XIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (Washington: D.C.,
September 28-30, 1995).
“Brazil and the Hispanic World: Comparative Readings of Travel Literature”
Language Conference (Boston, March 31-April 1, 1995).
Northeastern Modern
“‘Abaixo Tordesilhas!’: A integração da América portuguesa e espanhola através de sua cultura e
literatura.” Organized and chaired at the XXX Congresso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana (Pittsburgh, PA. June 12-16, 1994).
“Brazil and the Hispanic World: Comparative Readings.” Chaired at the NEMLA Conference (Pittsburgh,
PA. April 7-9, 1994).
"América desde las márgenes." Session co-organized and chaired at the XVI International LASA Congress
(Washington, D.C. April, 4-6, 1991).
"Women Writers of Brazil and Portugal." Session organizer and chair. NEMLA Convention (Hartford,
CT. April 5-7, 1991).
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Member of the Board of Directors of the “Colección Nexos y Diferencias: Estudios Culturales
Latinoamericanos”, Iberoamericana-Vervuert Press
Member, Editorial Committee of Revista do Instituto de Filosofia, Artes e Cultura, Universidade de Ouro
Preto, Brazil
Member, Editorial Committee of Revista Iberoamericana, 1996-present
Reeder Evaluator, Publications of the Modern Languages Association (PMLA), 2003
Reeder Evaluator, Research in African Literatures, 2002-present
Reader Evaluator, Latin American Research Review, 1992-present
Reader Evaluator, Luso-Brazilian Review, 1993-present
Reader Evaluator, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 1997present
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Contributing Editor, Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana, 1988-1994
SPECIAL HONORS
Research Fellow, The John Carter Brown Library, Summer, 1991
Visiting Scholar, Program of Judaic Studies, Brown Univ., Summer, 1991
Invitation to Integrate the Latin American Literary History Project, 1997
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Member of the Book Prize Selection Committee-LASA-BRAZIL Section
Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Division on Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature at
the Modern Language Association of America (1999-2004)
Elected Co-Chair of the LASA Section “Brazil in Comparative Perspective” (1998-2000)
Elected Chair of the Luso-Brazilian Section at the Amercian Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese (1999-2000)
Grant Proposals Evaluator, American Council for the Learned Societies (1999)
Grant Proposals Evaluator, American Council for the Learned Societies (1998)
Grant Proposals Evaluator, American Council for the Learned Societies (1997)
Founder and Chair of the LASA Section “Brazil in Comparative Perspective,” LASA (1997-1998).
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Member, College of Humanities International Committee (2002-present)
Chair, Campus Campaign Committee –Spanish and Portuguese (2002)
Member, College of Humanities Curriculum Committee (1999-2001)
Member, Council for International Studies Programs (1995-1999)
Member, Latin American Studies Committee (1989-1997)
Member, Huntington Fellowship Committee, 1991
Academic Adviser, Brazilian and Friends Association (1995-present)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director, Literature and Culture Section of the Portuguese Program (1993-1996)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Director, Portuguese Language Program (1988-1992)
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE COURSES PLANNED AND DEVELOPED
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Studies in Literatures and Cultures of the Portuguese Speaking World (Port. 750)
Comparative Topics in Iberian Literature and Culture (Spanish 859)
Comparative Topics in Latin American Literature and Culture (Spanish 759)
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I (501)
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II (502)
Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Cultures (560)
Survey of Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures I (420)
Brazilian Culture and Civilization (561)
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Chair of the Research Committee (2002-03)
Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee (2002-03)
Member, Tenure Review Committee for Ignacio Corona (2002)
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2002)
Member, Graduate Studies Committee (Spring 2001)
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee (Winter-Spring 2001)
Member, Library and Media Committee (Winter-Spring 2001)
Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2000-2001)
Chair of the Research Committee (1998-1999)
Member, Latin American Search Committee (1999)
Graduate Studies Committee (A1998)
Spanish and Portuguese Language Committee (1998-1999)
Graduate Studies Committee (A1995-W1996)
Undergraduate Studies Committee (1994-1995)
Portuguese Scheduling Coordinator (1994-1995)
Graduate Studies Committee (1993)
Director, Portuguese Language Program (1988-1992)
Spanish Undergraduate Adviser (1988-1990)
Portuguese Undergraduate Minor Adviser (1988-1991)
Advisory Committee (1990-1992)
Chair, Library Committee (1991-1992)
Chair, Portuguese and Spanish Club (1988-1991)
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1989-1991)
Latin American Studies Committee (1991-present)
Portuguese Program Committee (1992-present)
Department Chair Search Committee (1989-90)
Senior Latin American Search Committees (1989-90)
Portuguese Assistant Professor Search Committee (1990-1991)
PH.D. COMMITTEES AND HONORS’ THESES DIRECTED
Dissertation Director of “Through a Dark Lens: Signs of the Inquisition in Colonial Mexican Literature” by
Karen Dollinger, a PhD candidate in Spanish and Portuguese. Candidacy Examination-October 4, 1999.
Dissertation prospectus approved on December 14, 1999. Final Oral Defense, April 12, 2002
Christopher Minster, Advisor and Dissertation Director. Candidacy Examination, May 2002. Disseertation
prospectus approved on December, 2002.
Melissa Anne Logue, Member of the Masters’ Examination Committee, Spring 1999
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Gonzalez, Érica, Member of the Masters’ Examination Committee, Spring 1999
Wysong, Meghan Marjorie, Member of the Masters’ Examination Committee, Spring 1999
Fernando Gómez, “Good Places and non-places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga
(1470-1565).” Duke University, Dissertation defended in Spring 1999
Alicia Chavez, PHD exam and dissertation proposal, Spring 1999
Nancy Uvalle Ordoñez, PHD exam and dissertation proposal, Spring 1999
Frieda Martina Whittaker, PHD Candidacy Examination, The Ohio State University, 1998
Derek Petrey. PHD Candidacy Examination, The Ohio State University, 1998. Member of the Ph.D.
Defense Committee, Summer 2000
Esteban E. Loustenau, “Local Networks/Global Systems: The Localization of Postcolonial Culture in
Mexico.” PHD Defense Committee, The Ohio State University, 1998
Fernando Gómez, “Utopian Readings in Early Modern Period.”
Duke University, 1996-present
María Cristina Burgueño, “El Imaginario Nacional Uruguayo: Textos, Rescates y Olvidos Hasta el 1990.”
(Ph.D Dissertation). The Ohio State University, 1996
Ángel Santiago-Reyes, “Theater and Performance in Contemporary Latin American and Chicano
Cultures.” The Ohio State University, 1996
Robert Imes, “The Ideology of Empire in the Eighteenth Century Luso-Brazilian Epic.”
(Honors’ thesis) The Ohio State University, 1995
GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDIES DIRECTED
Brazilian Cultural Responses to Globalization
Indianism and Indigenism in Brazil and Spanish America
The Development of Brazilian Theater
Moderninsmo Brasileiro and Vanguardia Hispano-Americana: Comparative Aproaches
Afro Religions in Brazil
The Nation Formation Process in Brazil and Uruguay
Contemporary Women Writers in Brazil
The Literary Production of Antônio Callado and Darcy Ribeiro
Contemporary Historical Novel in Spanish America
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses
Duke University
Seminar on “Narratives of Colonial/Postcolonial Frontiers” (Spanish 341)
The Ohio State University
Spanish 755-Colonial Latin America Literature: La representación y el olvido de sujetos coloniales
Spanish 855-Inquisición, Cultura y Literatura en el ‘Nuevo Mundo’ (Seminar)
Spanish 857-Vanguardias Latinoamericanas (Seminar)
Spanish 755 -Literatura Colonial (The Bright Side of the Baroque)
Amazonia: A Survey of Frontier Literature (Spanish 856) Co-planned and team-taught with Ileana
Rodríguez
Portuguese and Lusophone African Novels of the Nineties (Port.650)
Race, Gender, Ethnicity in XX Century Brazilian Literature (Port.650)
Main Currents in the Development of Portuguese Literature (Port.620)
Main Currents in the Development of Brazilian Literature
(Port.621)
Modern Brazilian Novel (Port.623)
Contemporary Brazilian Novel (Port. 623)
Undergraduate Courses
Duke University
Seminar on: “Discourses of Colonial Institutions: Missions and the Inquisition.”(Spanish 143)
The Ohio State University
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (501-502)
Portuguese Basic Language: Elementary through Advanced (101-104)
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Conversation and Composition (202)
Grammar Review and Composition (401)
Survey of Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures I (420)
Introduction to Modern Luso-Brazilian Literature I (421)
Masterpieces of Portuguese Literature (422)
Masterpieces of Brazilian Literature (423)
Survey of Luso-Brazilian Literatures I (551)
Survey of Luso-Brazilian Literatures II (552)
Portuguese Culture and Civilization (560)
Brazilian Culture and Civilization (561)
Topics in Literature of the Portuguese Speaking World (650)
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh
Elementary, Intermediate Spanish Language
Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced Portuguese Language
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Latin America Today
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
Latin American Jewish Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Modern Language Association of America
Northeast Modern Language Association
LANGUAGES
Portuguese : native
English: fluent
Spanish: fluent
French: reading and oral comprehension
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