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Dr. Paula Celeste Gomes Noversa to lead the Center as it expands its international leadership in Portuguese education

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Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of Smiling in the Darkness by Adelaide Freitas, translated by Katharine F. Baker and with a foreword by João de Melo.

Students presented their projects on international issues

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of The Poems of Renata Ferreira by Frank X. Gaspar.

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

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.

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).

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.