Anna Klobucka

faculty

Anna Klobucka, PhD she/her

Commonwealth Professor

Portuguese

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Liberal Arts 398H

Education

1993Harvard UniversityPhD
1986University of Warsaw (Poland)BA/MA

Teaching

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Teaching

Courses

An introductory overview of cultural, social, and political realities of the Portuguese-speaking world. Through a diverse array of short readings, audiovisual materials, and targeted research projects and written assignments, students acquire basic cultural literacy about eight Portuguese-speaking countries on four continents, including Portugal and Brazil, as well as diasporic communities of Portuguese-speaking immigrants around the globe.

Survey of Portugal's most significant works from the medieval lyric to the chronicles of Fernão Lopes, the theatre of Gil Vicente, the poetry of Luís de Camões, and the sermons of Padre António Vieira. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the critical reading of complex Portuguese texts.

Advanced study of a selected topic, period, or genre from a comparative perspective encompassing various literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world and including, if applicable, other Western and non-Western theoretical, literary and cultural readings. Literary texts, canonical and non-canonical alike, are discussed in a broadly cultural context and from a theoretically informed perspective. Students formulate and develop independent research projects exploring theoretical meanings and consequences of literary works and/or cultural phenomena.

Individual research leading to the production of a PhD dissertation pursued under the direction of a faculty advisor. This course continues as POR 761, POR 762, and POR 763; initially graduate students receive the grade IP, which following completion of the sequence is changed to the grade earned in POR 763.

Individual research leading to the production of a PhD dissertation pursued under the direction of a faculty advisor.

Individual research leading to the production of a PhD dissertation pursued under the direction of a faculty advisor.

Individual research leading to the production of a PhD dissertation pursued under the direction of a faculty advisor.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Study of a selected topic, period or genre from a comparative perspective encompassing various literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world and including, if applicable, other Western and non-Western theoretical, literary and cultural readings. Literary texts, canonical and non-canonical alike, are discussed in a broadly cultural context and from a theoretically informed perspective. Focused written assignments and/or formal oral presentations contribute to the development of individual research projects pursued by the students.
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Research

Research interests

  • Modern Portuguese literature and culture
  • Women's writing and history
  • Gender and sexuality in Luso-Brazilian cultures
  • Modernist studies
  • Lesbian history

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I have taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth since 2001, having worked previously at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia. At UMass Dartmouth, I teach primarily Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures and cultures, and I hold a joint appointment in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. I served as Chair of the Department of Portuguese from 2003 to 2007. I have published several books, including The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell University Press, 2000; Portuguese translation issued by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in 2006), O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2009), and O Mundo Gay de António Botto (Lisboa: Sistema Solar, 2018). I have also co-edited the volumes After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknell University Press, 1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (University of Toronto Press, 2007; Portuguese translation published in 2010 by Assírio & Alvim), and Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). My articles have appeared in Colóquio/Letras, Luso-Brazilian Review, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, and SubStance, among other journals. I was also the lead author of the first edition of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (Prentice Hall, 2007). I served as Vice-President (2003-04) and President (2005-06) of the American Portuguese Studies Association. In 2007, I was recognized as UMass Dartmouth's Scholar of the Year. I currently serve as editor of the Portuguese Language Textbook Series and coeditor of the journal Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, both published by Tagus Press/Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at UMass Dartmouth, and as coeditor of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship. In 2022, I held a Fulbright research fellowship to Portugal for my current book project tentatively entitled Among Women: Cultural Agency, Sociability, and Sexuality on the Margins of Portuguese Modernism.

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