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

Call for papers for a new special issue of the Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies journal. Topic: "Heritages of Portuguese Influence: Histories, Spaces, Texts, and Objects"

Guest Editors:Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Anna M. Klobucka, Walter Rossa. Please send 300-word proposals by April 15, 2019.

Publication of Lisbon: A Biography by Magda Pinheiro, translated by Mario Pereira

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of Lisbon: A Biography by Magda Pinheiro, translated by Mario Pereira.

Professor Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is now Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at UMass for Spring 2019 semester

Prof. Jerónimo will teach a graduate seminar on “New Brazils in Africa: The ‘Third’ Portuguese Empire,” cross-listed between the MA/PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory and the MAT in History.

UMass Dartmouth renews agreement with Portugal’s Camões Institute

Chancellor Robert E. Johnson hosts community, Portuguese government, and university officials to celebrate global education partnership