:: Endowed Chair, Spring 2006

Endowed Chair, Spring 2006

George Monteiro was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and attended schools in that town grades 1-12. He earned his A.B. and Ph.D. at Brown University and his A.M. at Columbia University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He taught English and American Literature, as well as Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown for over four decades. He became emeritus in 1999. He has taught at Providence College and, in Brazil, at the University of São Paulo (as a Fulbright lecturer) and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He has given numerous lectures and conducted seminars throughout the United States as well as in Brazil and Portugal (including the Azores). At Brown University he has also served as Co-chair of American Civilization, Assistant Chair of English, and Director of the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. He is a past president of the Robert Frost Society, the Henry James Society, and the Stephen Crane Society.

Among Professor Monteiro’s books are critical studies such as Robert Frost & the New England Renaissance, Stephen Crane’s Blue Badge of Courage, The Presence of Camões, Fernando Pessoa and Nineteen-Century Anglo-American Literature, and The Presence of Pessoa. He has collected and edited letters by Henry James, William James, John Hay, William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, and Bret Harte. He has edited Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890-1896), Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, Steerage: Ten Stories by José Rodrigues Miguéis, and The Man Who Never Was: Essays on Fernando Pessoa. He has translated the poetry of Jorge de Sena, Fernando Pessoa, Miguel Torga, and Pedro da Silveira, as well as José Rodrigues Miguéis’ Um Homem Sorri à Morte com Meia Cara, an autobiographical account of his illness. He is currently working on a study of Elizabeth Bishop and Brazil, an edition of the contemporary reviews of Stephen Crane’s work, and a critical book tentatively entitled Fernando Pessoa’s Obsession with Shakespeare and Other Essays. He is married to Brenda Murphy, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He has three children.

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