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Maria João Dodman is an Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she teaches in the Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies program. She holds a PhD (Portuguese and Spanish literature) from the University of Toronto. Her research interests are wide and range from early modern Iberian literature to colonial encounters and Portuguese island culture. She has published articles on Gil Vicente, Mariana Alcoforado, Angela de Azevedo, Bernardim Ribeiro, among others. Currently, she is developing a collaborative research project regarding oral narratives in the islands of the Azores. She is also working on a book manuscript that explores the representations of beauty and ugliness in early modern Iberian literature and on a collection of creative short narratives.
Marc A. Hertzman is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois (Urbana–Champaign). His first book, Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke, 2013), won Honorable Mention for LASA’s Bryce Wood Award. His work has appeared in Journal of Latin American Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, A Contracorriente, and in several edited volumes in Brazil. He is currently working on two projects. One traces narratives surrounding Zumbi’s death over three hundred years and across the Atlantic, and the other examines the lives and careers of Edison Carneiro and his father and the larger dynamics of race and radical politics in post-abolition Brazil.
Jeremy Lehnen is an Assistant Professor of Portuguese, Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests broach questions of gender and sexuality, particularly constructions of masculinities in Latin American cinema and literature. He is particularly interested in social, political and cultural trends of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Marília Librandi-Rocha is an Assistant Professor of Brazilian Literature at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo. She is the author of Maranhão-Manhattan: Ensaios de literatura brasileira (2009), and she is preparing her second scholarly monograph, Echopoetics: Writing by Ear in Brazilian Literature. She is co-executive editor, with Vincent Barletta, of the literary journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association, ellipsis. [End Page 173]
Rex P. Nielson is an Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on gender and masculinity in Brazilian culture, ecocriticism and environmental ethics in Brazil and the global south, and language and literature pedagogy. His recent articles have appeared in Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Portuguese Studies, Chasqui, and HIOL: Hispanic Issues On Line.
Élio Serpa tem mestrado em História pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, doutorado em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo, e Pós-Doutorado na Universidade de Coimbra e na Universidade de Salamanca. Atualmente é professor associado na Universidade Federal de Goiás. Foi coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História. É pesquisador CNPq, desenvolvendo a pesquisa Revista Brasília: ver o outro nos próprios olhos (1942–1968). Foi pesquisador da Fundación Carolina (Espanha), professor visitante no Centro de Estúdios Brasileños da Universidade de Salamanca. Sua pesquisa aborda os seguintes temas: cidade e modernização, cultura, igreja e poder, comemorações, autoritarismos e produção de subjetividades. No Programa de Pós-Graduação/UFG atua na linha de pesquisa História, memória e imaginário social. É o autor dos livros: Igreja e poder em Santa Catarina, Guerra do Contestado, O beijo através do Atlântico: o lugar do Brasil no panlusitanismo, Escritas da História: memória e poder, entre outros.
Robert Simon is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Kennesaw State University and author of two critical editions, six collections of poetry, and various critical essays and articles focused on poetry and society in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Angola, in terms of their mystical, intimate, and social evolutions.
José I. Suárez is a Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. He has published over forty scholarly articles in refereed journals and has...
