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Escritor e diplomata, João Almino é autor do Quarteto de Brasília, composto pelos romances Idéias para onde passar o fim do mundo (indicado para o Prêmio Jabuti, ganhador de Prêmio do Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Prêmio Candango de Literatura), Samba-Enredo, As cinco estações do amor (Prêmio Casa de las Américas 2003) e O livro das emoções (Record, 2008). Seus escritos de história e filosofia política são referência para os estudiosos do autoritarismo e da democracia. Entre estes, incluem-se os livros Os democratas autoritários (1980), A idade do presente (1985), Era uma vez uma Constituinte (1985) e O segredo e a informação (1986). É também autor de Naturezas mortas - A filosofia política do Ecologismo (2004) e de Brasil-EUA: Balanço poético (1996). Doutorou-se em Paris, orientado pelo filósofo Claude Lefort. Ensinou na UNAM (México), Universidade de Brasília, Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley e Stanford.
Álvaro A. Ayo is an Associate Professor of Spanish Peninsular Literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His area of specialization is 19th and early 20th century literature. Humor, autobiography, modernity, and nationalism in prose and poetry are some of his main areas of research interest. He has published several articles dealing with these topics as seen in the works of Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Benito Pérez Galdós, Miguel de Unamuno, and Joan Maragall in journals such as Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, Letras Peninsulares, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Hispanófila, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Catalan Review. He has also published a book about humor titled La tragicomedia de la certidumbre perdida: Ramón Pérez de Ayala y su narrativa (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2006). Currently he is working on a book that deals with modernity and the representation of the nation in the works of leading authors in turn-of-the-century Spain, including Catalan and Galician-language authors.
Elizabeth Ribeiro Azevedo has been a professor of Brazilian Theater and History of Theater at the Communication and Visual Arts School at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, since 2003. She holds a degree in History (University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1983) and has a Master Degree in Arts with the dissertation "A Stage Under the Arches - the Theater of the Law Students in São Paulo in the 19th century." In 1997 she received a scholarship from Vitae Artes Foundation [End Page 223] for research on an amateur theater group of the 1950s, "Lotte Sieves Theater." In 2002 she was granted the doctorate degree in Arts at ECA/ University of São Paulo, Brazil, with the thesis "Stylistics Resources in Jorge Andrade Dramaturgy." She is presently researching popular theater in São Paulo in the early 20th century (The Company of Comedies, Revues of Sebastião Arruda) and also working for the preservation of the memory of theater in São Paulo.
Igor Cusack, after a first career as a geologist in the oil and coal-mining industries, embarked upon a second in African politics and culture, teaching at the Universities of Birmingham and Bristol. His current research is focused on three diverse themes: the history of late colonial Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea, the Lusophone African novel as a "performance" and the "Poetics of Resistance" in Equatorial Guinea. He has been published widely in refereed journals and elsewhere, on the development of "national cuisines" in Africa and how these are represented in literature; on other aspects of culture such as the representation of masculinities in Hispanic and Lusophone African literature; African national anthems and the ideologies transmitted by the postage stamps of Portugal and its empire.
Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes took her first degree in the Universidade de Lisboa, in Modern Languages and Literatures. She received an MA in Comparative Literature (Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, 2004) and has been awarded a grant by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, to carry out research for her PhD on British Contemporary Literature. She joined the Department of...
