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Anna Klobucka

faculty

Anna Klobucka, PhD she/her

Commonwealth Professor

Portuguese

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508-999-9272

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Liberal Arts 398H

Education

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

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Critical study of representations of gender and sexuality in the literature of Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa from the Middle Ages to the present. Attention will be given to discursive and narrative construction of gendered and sexual identities; historically and culturally variable perspectives on gender and sexuality; and the roles played by gendered agents and sexual engagements in the historical processes occurring in the Portuguese-speaking world, with particular emphasis on colonial and postcolonial contexts and relations.

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.

Critical study of representations of gender and sexuality in the literature of Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa from the Middle Ages to the present. Attention will be given to discursive and narrative construction of gendered and sexual identities; historically and culturally variable perspectives on gender and sexuality; and the roles played by gendered agents and sexual engagements in the historical processes occurring in the Portuguese-speaking world, with particular emphasis on colonial and postcolonial contexts and relations.

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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