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Josiah Blackmore

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Academic Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., Harvard Univ.  ITT International Fellow (Univ. de Lisboa)

Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Literature and Culture; Camões; the Maritime Humanities; Lusophone Imperial/Colonial...

Cristiane Soares

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Academic Degrees: Ph.D. in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory, UMass- Dartmouth; M.A. in Applied Linguistics, UMass- Boston; B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Roles: Coordinator of the...

PORTUGUESE 184 - Literature of Colonial Brazil

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This course studies the literature of colonial Brazil. We will consider how texts and writing participate in empire and colonialism, and explore a range of primary texts that engage with the lands, resources, peoples, and legends of Brazil. We will also...

PORTUGUESE 077 - Laughter and Disaster

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This course engages the twin lenses of the comic and the disastrous as modes of studying Portuguese and Brazilian cultures. We will consider how reactions to disastrous events and how creating comic scenarios in written texts and performance are...