Contributors
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Maria José Somerlate Barbosa is Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Her areas of research are Brazilian literature and culture, focusing on gender, race and age studies. Her book-length publications include Clarice Lispector: Mutações Faiscantes/Sparkling Mutations (1997), Clarice Lispector: Des/fiando as teias da paixão (2001), and Passo e compasso: Nos ritmos do envelhecer (ed., 2003), a collection of essays about representations of aging in the culture and literature of Portuguese-speaking countries. She has also published numerous articles and chapters of books in Brazil and in the United States. Her current research focuses on Afro-Brazilian literature and culture.
Kátia da Costa Bezerra, Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, specializes in Luso-Brazilian literature. She is the author of Tirando do Baú: Antologia de poetas brasileiras do século XIX (2003). She is currently working on a book on women's poetry in Brazil in the 1980s.
César Braga-Pinto is an associate professor of Brazilian and comparative literature at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick). He is the author of the book As promessas da história: Discursos proféticos e assimilação no Brasil colonial (EDUSP, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2003). He is currently working on a book project on José Lins do Rego and Gilberto Freyre. Some of his articles include: "Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre and the white man's love for blacks," in The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries (Palgrave, 2005); "José Lins do Rego: sujeito aos ventos de Gilberto Freyre," in Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2004, vol. 59; "Supermen and Chiquita Bacana's Daughters," in Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World (Minnesota UP, 2002); "How to Organize a Movement: Caetano Veloso's Tropical Path," in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 19, 2000.
David William Foster (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Regents' Professor of of Spanish, Humanities, and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. He served as Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures from 1997–2001. His research interests focus on urban culture in Latin America, with emphasis on issues of gender construction and sexual identity, as well as Jewish culture. He [End Page 245] has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater and held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.His most recent publications include Violence in Argentine Literature; Cultural Responses to Tyranny (U of Missouri P, 1995); Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature (U of New Mexico P, 1994); and Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing (Austin: Uof Texas P, 1991).He is also the editor of Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1994). Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing was published in Fall 1997 by the University of Texas Press, which also published Contemporary Brazilian Cinema in 2000 and Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema in 2004.
Richard A. Gordon (Ph.D. Brown University, 2002) is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at The Ohio State University. His research interests include Brazilian and Spanish American historical cinema and comparative New World historiography. He has published in Hispania, Torre de papel, Romance Notes, and MLN, and has forthcoming articles in Letras Peninsulares, and Colonial Latin American Review. He is currently working on a book manuscript called "Cannibalizing the Colony: The Cinematic Consumption of Colonial Literature in Latin America."
Sabrina Karpa-Wilson is Assistant Professor of Portuguese language and Luso Brazilian literatures at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998. She has published articles on Helena Morley and Adalgisa Nery. She is currently working on finishing a book manuscript on ethical representations in the works of Graciliano Ramos. She also has a strong interest in understudied mid-twentieth-century women writers and plans on furthering her research in this area.
Mark Lokensgard (Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Studies, Brown, 1999) is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish and Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. He is also the Director of...
