Contributors
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Milton M. Azevedo received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell Unviersity (1971 Cornell Unviersity (1973) and since 1976 has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. He has also taught at the Universities of Illinois, Colorado and Minnesota and lectured at universities in Australia, England, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United States. His publications include manuals and textbooks, as well as books and articles on synchronic and comparative linguistics, foreign language methodology, literary linguistics, translation studies, and literary studies.
Maite Conde is a lecturer in the Brazil Institute, King’s College, London. She is the author of Consuming Visions. Cinema, Writing and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro, 1890s–1920s (Virginia), and the editor and translator of Between Conformity and Resistance. Essays on Politics, Culture and the State (Palgrave Macmillan), a collection of essays by Brazilian philosopher Marilena Chauí. Maite Conde is currently writing a monograph on cinema and modernity during Brazil’s First Republic (1889–1930).
Teresa Cribelli holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and an MA and PhD in Latin American History from the Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation examined Brazilian debates about modernization and technological innovation during the reign of Dom Pedro II. In addition to the history of modernization in Brazil, she is interested in immigration and nineteenth-century economic development in Argentina and Mexico. Her current research examines the presentation of Brazilian botanical displays at nineteenth-century World’s Fairs. Her teaching interests include the Jewish experience in Latin America, Comparative Frontiers in the Americas, the history of Argentina, the African Diaspora in Brazil, and Brazilian culture and society. She is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama.
Patricio Ferrari completed a Master’s in Comparative Literature at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III (2006). He is the co-director of the complete digitalization of Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library and co-author of A biblioteca de Fernando Pessoa (2010). He participated in the last two Pessoa International Conferences held in Lisbon (November 2008 and November 2010) [End Page 237] and is the editor of Os sonetos completos de Antero de Quental, accompanied by Pessoa’s English translations (2010), as well as the co-editor of Provérbios portugueses selected and translated by Pessoa (2010) and Argumentos para filmes (2011). He has published articles in different languages on Fernando Pessoa and Alejandra Pizarnik, with particular interest in poetic meter and verse rhythm. He is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the Universidade de Lisboa with a dissertation entitled “Meter and Rhythm in the Poetry of Fernando Pessoa.” He has been an FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) scholarship holder since 2008.
Rodrigo Guimarães teaches literature at Unimontes University in Minas Gerais. He received his doctorate from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; his dissertation analyzes Haroldo de Campos’s poetry. His teaching focuses on contemporary Brazilian literature and “deconstruction,” with specific emphasis on Derrida and Deleuze. He is also interested in thoughts and resentment in Bataille. He is currently working on other articles on the intertwining of literature and philosophy, and on the correlation of art and eroticism.
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of White Negritude: Race, Writing and Brazilian Cultural Identity (2007) and the editor of The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries (2005). She is currently at work on a monograph on representations of animals in Brazilian literature and film.
Anna M. Klobucka is Professor of Portuguese and Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Her current research interests focus on the theory and practice of feminist and queer criticism in the context of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures. Her most recent books are Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (2007; co-edited with Mark Sabine) and O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (2009).
João Gilberto Noll has received five Jabuti Awards for his fiction. Three of his works have been adapted...
