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Anna Klobucka holds an M.A. in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). She taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia before coming to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2001. At UMass Dartmouth, she teaches primarily Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures and is affiliated faculty in the Women's Studies program. She served as Chair of the Department of Portuguese from 2003 to 2007. She is the co-editor of After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknell University Press, 1997) and Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell, 2000; Portuguese translation issued by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in 2006). She has also published on twentieth-century Portuguese and Brazilian women writers, the theory and practice of feminist and queer criticism in the context of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures, and the construction of collective identities in national cultures of the European periphery. Her articles have appeared in Colóquio/Letras, Luso-Brazilian Review, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, and SubStance, among other journals. She is also the lead author of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (Prentice Hall, 2007). She served as Vice-President (2003-04) and President (2005-06) of the American Portuguese Studies Association. In 2007, she was recognized as UMass Dartmouth's Scholar of the Year.

Some recent and forthcoming publications

O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa. Forthcoming from Angelus Novus (Coimbra).

"Seductions and Betrayals of Hybridity in Richard Burton and Gilberto Freyre." Forthcoming in Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, ed., Europe in Black and White.

"Sobre a hipótese de uma herstory da literatura portuguesa." Veredas 10 (Dezembro 2008), 13-25.

"Lusotropicalism, Race and Ethnicity." Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires. Ed. by Prem Poddar, Rajeev S. Patke and Lars Jensen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. 471-476.

 

 

 

 

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