Contributors
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Daniel Patrick Aragon is a U.S. Foreign Service Officer assigned to the U.S. Consulate, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 1988, his M.A. in History from the University of New Mexico in 1995, and his Ph.D. in History from Auburn University in 2001. He joined the U.S. Department of State in March 2009. He has earned several teaching awards and/or nominations in the field of Brazilian Studies.
Thomas O. Beebee is a distinguished professor of Comparative Literature and German literature at The Pennsylvania State University. His fields of specialization are European literature of the early modern period, epistolarity, literary cartography, millennial studies, translation studies, and law and literature. His publications include the books Clarissa on the Continent, The Ideology of Genre, Epistolary Fiction in Europe (1999), Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (2008), and Millennial Literatures of the New World, 1492-2002 (2008). His writing on Agualusa derives from a larger project on (post) colonial letters.
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, journalist, and playwright. He has been a correspondent for the Folha de S. Paulo in Paris and New York and the editor of the paper's literary supplement, Folhetim. His books are translated into more than ten languages and published in many countries. In addition to Aberração, a collection of short stories published in 1993, he has written nine novels, most recently O filho da mãe, published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras, the publisher of all his previous titles. Two of his works have been translated into English and published in the UK: the novella Fear of de Sade (Canongate) and Nine Nights (Heinemann). The latter was awarded both the Portugal Telecom and Machado de Assis prizes. Mongolia (2003) was awarded the Jabuti prize, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, and also won a prize from the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA). Carvalho has contributed to a variety of publications and anthologies in Brazil and abroad. His 2006 play BR-3, written for the experimental Teatro da Vertigem, was staged on São Paulo's Tietê river and on boats in the bay of Rio. Some of his chronicles, literary reviews, and short fiction published in Folha de S. Paulo were collected in O mundo fora dos eixos (Publifolha, 2006). [End Page 257]
Celso Castilho is a Research Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Vanderbilt University. His research interests focus on antislavery, nationalism, and citizenship in nineteenth-century Brazil. He is author of "Brisas atlánticas: la abolición gradual y la conexión brasileña-cubana," in Haití: Revolución y emancipación, eds. Rina Cáceres and Paul Lovejoy (San José: Editorial UCR, 2008): 128-38. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, Remaking Nation and Citizenship in Northeastern Brazil: The Politics of Antislavery in Pernambuco, 1866-1893.
Camillia Cowling is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her work focuses on slavery, abolition and gender in Brazil and Cuba. Publications include "Hard Work with the Mare Magnum of the Past: Nineteenth-Century Cuban History and the Miscelánea de Expedientes Collection," (co-authored with Jorge L. Giovannetti), Cuban Studies/ Estudios Cubanos,, 39 (2008): 60-84, and "Negociando a liberdade: mulheres de cor e a transição para o trabalho livre em Cuba e no Brasil, 1870-1888," in Trabalho livre, trabalho escravo: Brasil e Europa, séculos XVIII e XIX, eds. Douglas Cole Libby and Júnia Ferreira Furtado (São Paulo: Anna-blume, 2006), 153-76. She is working on a book manuscript entitled Matrices of Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Ending of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1888.
Francisco Alves Ferraz is Associate Professor in the Department of History, State University of Londrina (UEL), Brazil. He graduated from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (1988) and earned his doctorate from the Universidade de São Paulo (2003), researching the social reintegration and collective memory of the Brazilian veterans of World War II. His books include Os brasileiros e a Segunda Guerra...
