Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at UMass Dartmouth, Spring 2020

Prof. Rossa holds a PhD and Aggregate in Architecture from the University of Coimbra and will teach a graduate seminar on “Landscapes of Portuguese Influence,” in the MA/PhD program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives launch new publication examining citizenship

The UMass Dartmouth-based Archive to release The Final Report: a History of the Portuguese American Citizenship Project and hold discussion with project staff

Legislators honor the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives

The meet and greet brought together Portuguese-American legislators and university officials

Tagus Press’s Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World longlisted for the PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation

Finalists for all Book Awards, will be announced in January 2020 and the winners will be celebrated live at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2 at Town Hall in New York City.

2019-10-30 Professor Fernando Arenas’s Eulogy

It is with great sadness that we received the news of the untimely death of our dear colleague and long-time partner and friend of the UMass Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press and the Department of Portuguese, Professor Fernando Arenas (University of Michigan).

Publication of Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today, edited by Christopher Larkosh with Emanuel da Silva, Maggie L. N. Felisberto, and Jo-Anne S. Ferreira

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today (PLCS 32), a groundbreaking transnational approach to the contemporary Lusodiasporic cultures of North America and the Caribbean.

CPSC / Tagus Press: Publication of Eden-Brazil by Moacyr Scliar

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of Eden-Brazil by Moacyr Scliar, translated by Malcolm N. McNee

Launching of Bellis Azorica: A New Book Series Dedicated to the Azores

The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the launching of Bellis Azorica–an unprecedented book series dedicated exclusively to the literature, culture and history of the Azores—with the publications of its first two titles.

The Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at UMass Dartmouth for Spring 2020

The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press (CPSC/TP) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is seeking candidates for the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies for the Spring term of 2020 (January through May).

Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 34 - The Open Veins of the Postcolonial: Afrodescendants and Racisms

Guest Editors: Inocência Mata & Iolanda Évora