CURRICULUM VITAE
M. (Mary) Elizabeth Ginway
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
P.O Box 117405, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7405
(352) 273-3745
eginway@rll.ufl.edu http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/eginway
Education
Ph. D. Spanish and Portuguese, 1989, Vanderbilt University
Dissertation: The Brazilian Miracle: Technology and Fiction in Brazil, 1959-1979 Alexandrino Severino, director.
M. A. Spanish, 1986, Vanderbilt University.
B. A. Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, Smith College, 1981
Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College, 1980
Positions
2003–present Associate Professor of Portuguese, University of Florida
1997–2003 Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Florida
1995–1997 Visiting Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Florida
1994–1995 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Emory University
1989–1993 Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Georgia
1988 Lecturer in Spanish, New College, Sarasota, Florida
1981–1987 Teaching assistant in Spanish, Vanderbilt University
Publications
Books
Sole author. Brazilian Science Fiction: Cultural Myths and Nationhood in the Land of the Future. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004. 288 pp.
Translation: Fico cientfica brasileira: mitos culturais e nacionalidade no pas do futuro. Translated by Roberto de Sousa Causo. So Paulo: Devir, 2005. 296 pp.
*Brazilian Science Fiction: Recommended Reading List for Non-Fiction:
Locus: Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy World, 529 Feb: 2005.
http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/02RecommendedReading.html
Nominated for MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize by Bucknell University Press, 2005
Reviews of Brazilian Science Fiction:
Choice, Oct. 2004: 298—Highly Recommended.
Anurio brasileiro de literature fantstica 2004: So Paulo, Edies Hiperespao.Review by Marcello Simo Branco, 65-72,
Midwest Book Review, Sept. 2005: Recommended for academic library literary studies collections.
Chasqui 34.1 (May 2005): Science Fiction in Brazil, by Bruce Dean Willis. 164-67.
Science Fiction Studies 32.1 (March 2005): The Unique Voice of Brazilian Science Fiction, Jim Rambo, 205-206.
Extrapolation 46.1 (2005), Review by Gerson Lodi Ribeiro, 133-36.
Locus, Feb. 2005, Year in Review by Gary K. Wolfe, 35.
Utopian Studies Vol. 15, No. 2 (Winter 2004) Ftima Vieira), 219-223
Review of translation: Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa, O Planeta Brasil Carta Capital, 9 Nov. 2005, 65.
Viso aliengena: ensaios sobre fico cientfica e fantasia no Brasil. 12 essays, 9 republished, 3 new. In Portuguese. Introduction by Andrew Gordon. So Paulo: Devir 2010. 210 pp.
Reviews:Anurio brasileiro de literatura fantstica 2010: So Paulo: Devir, 2011. Review by Marcello Simo Branco. 116-119.
Gilberto Schoereder, Vimana. 10 Oct. 2010 http://www.vimana.com.br/vimana/vimana_verConteudo.aspx?tipo=artigo&id=37F80O84
Slvio Alexandre, Universo fantstico. 7 July 2010 http://universofantastico.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/visao-alienigena-ensaios-sobre-ficcao-cientifica-brasileira-de-m-elizabeth-ginway/
Co-edited volumes
with J. Andrew Brown. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. 241pp.
with Carmen C. McClendon. Brazil in the Eighties Los Ensayistas Georgia Series on Hispanic Thought. Athens, Georgia Department of Romance Languages, 1990. 232 pp.
Articles and Book Chapters on Literature
2013: Entries for online revised edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. John Clute.
http://sf-encyclopedia.co.uk/?p=latamspain
-André Carneiro
-Roberto de Sousa Causo
-Gastão Cruls w. Braulio Tavares
-Fausto Cunha
-Menotti Del Picchia
-Monteiro Lobato
-Braulio Tavares
“Introduction.” Co-authored with J. Andrew Brown. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. 2-15.
“Science Fiction and Metafiction in the Cinematic Works of Brazilian Director Jorge Furtado.” Article co-authored with Alfredo Suppia. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. 203-223.
“Teaching Latin American Science Fiction: A Case Study.” Teaching Science Fiction. Edited by Peter Wright and Andy Sawyer, Palgrave McMillan, 2011. 179-201.
“Um garimpo no monte de sucata pós-moderno: o pós-humano na ficção científica brasileira.” Translated by César Silva. Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica 2009. São Paulo: Tarja. 2010. 153-160.
“Transgendering in Brazilian Speculative Fiction from Machado de Assis to the Present.” Luso-Brazilian Review 47.1 (2010): 40-60.
“Discovering and Re-discovering Brazilian Science Fiction: An Overview.” Co-authored with Roberto de Sousa Causo. Extrapolation 51.1 (2010): 13-39.
Introduction and story translation: “Finisia Fideli: Finding the Female Voice in Brazilian Science Fiction” and “The Resurrection of Lazarus” a story by Finisia Fideli. Femspec Vol 10.1 (2009): 66-82.
Um garimpo no monte de sucata pós moderno: o pós humano na ficção científica contemporânea (2006-2009). Trans. Cesar Silva. Anuário brasileiro de literatura fantástica 2009. Cesar Silva e Marcello Simão Branco eds. Devir: São Paulo, 2010: 153-160.
Interview with Argentine Fantasy Author Liliana Bodoc: Introduction, and Translation from Spanish, Femspec Vol. 9.1 (2008): 20-28.
“The Body Politic in Brazilian Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs.” New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction, edited by Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox, University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 198-211.
“A cidade pós-moderna.” Trans. Ramiro Giroldo. Em Volta do Mundo em Nove Artigos e um Conto. Ed. Edgar Cézar Nolasco, Rodolfo Londero. Corumbá: Ed. UFMS, 2007. 113-34.
“Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction.” Co-authored with Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado, Luís Pestarini, Andrea Bell, and Juan Carlos Toledano. Science Fiction Studies 34.3 (2007): 369-431. (Brazil section).
“Do implantado ao ciborgue: o corpo social na ficção científica brasileira.” Revista Iberoamericana octubre-diciembre 221 (2007): 787-99.
“Recent Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy Written by Women.” Foundation 36 (99: Spring 2007) 49-62.
“Globalizando e abrasileirando O Senhor dos Anéis.” Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica 2005. Cesar Silva e Marcello Simão Branco, eds. Sao Bernardo do Campo-SP: Edições Hiperespaço, 2006. 182-188.
“A Working Model for Analyzing Third World Science Fiction: The Case of Brazil.” Science Fiction Studies (32.3) (2005): 467-94.
“Chico Buarque sob a ótica internacional.” Co-authored with Charles Perrone and Ataíde
Tartari. In Chico Buarque do Brasil: textos sobre as canções, o teatro e a ficção de um artista brasileiro. Rinaldo Fernandes, org. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond-Biblioteca Nacional 2004. 211-216.
“Vampires, Werewolves, and Strong Women: Alternate Histories or the Re-writing of Race and Gender in Brazilian History.” Extrapolation 44.3 (2003): 283-95.
“Fictional Trends in Brazil Under Military Rule.” The Brazil Reader. Ed. Robert Levine and John J. Crocitti. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999. 248-253.
“Nation Building and Heroic Undoing: Myth and Ideology in Bom-Crioulo.” Modern Language Studies 28.3, 4 (1998): 41-56.
“Iaiá Garcia: romance de transição na obra machadiana.” Hispania 78.1 (1995): 33-42.
“The Metaphor of Engineering in J. Veiga and Murilo Rubião.” Brasil/Brazil 9 (1993): 46-56.
“Traços do discurso épico em Iracema de José de Alencar.” Homenagem a Alexandrino Serverino. Ed. Margo Milleret and Marshall C. Eakin. Austin, TX: Host Press, 1993.
135-47.
“Surrealist Benjamin Péret and Brazilian Modernism.” Hispania 74.3 (1992): 543-53.
In Press
“A Paradigm of the Tropical: Brazil in Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Article Science Fiction Studies. Accepted: publication date, July 2013.
“Weaving Webs of Intrigue: Rubem Fonseca’s A grande arte as a Work of Analytic Crime Fiction.” Hispania. Accepted July 2012. 25 pp. projected publication Sept. or Dec. 2013.
“O presidente negro: Eugenics, Race and Gender in the Brazil’s Corporate State.” For essay collection, Black and Brown Planets. Isiah Lavender III, ed. Anthology accepted by University of Mississippi Press. 21pp. w. notes.
“A Eugenia, a Mulher e a Literatura Utópica no Brasil 1909-1929” for a volume titled: “Novas Cartografias e Estudos da Ficção Científica Mundial” ed. Alfredo Suppia, to be published by Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, UFJF. Submitted July 2012. 15 pp. w. notes.
Works in Progress:
Article: “Mitos de Amazonia y Atlántida en la ciencia ficción brasileña.” To be included in a volume edited by the Instituto Iberoamericana, Berlin.
“La CF mexicana y brasileña: especulaciones preliminares.” Article requested by Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz.
Article: “The Politics of Allegory: Machado de Assis’s Tales of the Fantastic: Metafiction and the Macabre.” 15 pp. written. To be submitted to the Luso-Brazilian Review.
Book: “The Body in Latin American SF&F: Monsters and Cyborgs.” This is a diachronic study of bodily invasion and modification in popular literature from tales of horror and fantasy from the 1870s through the present. The pulp genres include bodily distortions in fantasy and gothic horror, colonialist lost race narratives and science fiction as they reflect the changing nature of Latin American body politic.
Short online articles:
“Finisia Fideli, encontrando a voz na ficção cientifica brasileira.” Guest article for Terra Magazine columnist Roberto de Sousa Causo, Sat. Oct. 27, 2007
http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2026142-EI6622,00.html
“Libby Ginway fala dos mundos partilhados,” Guest article for Terrra Magazine columnist Roberto de Sousa Causo, July 12, 2008.
http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI3003704-EI6581,00.html
Articles on Pedagogy
“Composição no Segundo Ano: Algumas Observações e Opções.” The Portuguese Newsletter. 11.2 (2000): 8.
“Video Use for Portuguese Language and Conversation Classes.” Hispania 74.3 (1991): 775-76.
Interviews and Newspaper Articles
“Ficção científica: um gênero globalizado.” Entrevista com M. Elizabeth Ginway por Alfredo Suppia. Ciência e Cultura 62.4 (2010): 64-65
Internet Television Interview with César Freitas, “HQ & Cia” São Paulo, June 23, 2007.
http://www.hqcia.com/programa/elizabeth_ginway/
“Locus Reviews Ian McDonald,” Gary K. Wolfe’s Review of Brasyl, by Ian McDonald. http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/02/locus-reviews-ian-mcdonald.html
Feb. 22, 2007
“Brazilian Director Shares Lessons with UF Students” Erik Maza, Gainesville Sun CAMPUS, Feb. 21, 2007, 7.
“Astronautas Literários” Rachel Bertol, O Globo, “Prosa & Verso,” April 16, 2006, p. 1.
“Brazilian Films Featured in Hippodrome Series,” Brian Offenther, Gainesville Sun, January 23, 2006, 9A.
Interview article: “Latin American Science Fiction Symposium.” Colin McCandless, Gainesville Sun, Oct. 25, 2005. http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200551024060&source=email
“Ao arqueólogo do futuro: a ficção científica brasileira e seus futuros possíveis”Sept. 1, 2005.
http://agenciacartamaior.uol.com.br/agencia.asp?coluna=arqueologo
Interview: “Ficção alienígena.” Rascunho, O jornal de literatura do Brasil. Curitiba (Paraná, Brasil). 5 de agosto, 2005, pp. 22-23. www.rascunho.com.br
Interview article: Irinêo Netto, “Outra odisséia no espaço,” Gazeta do Povo, Caderno G, Curitiba (Paraná - Brasil) 24 de julho, 2005, p. 4.
"Libby Ginway." Entrevista/Interview com Carlos Neves, junho, 2003 http://www.alanmooresenhordocaos.hpg.ig.com.br/entrevistas27a.htm
Book Reviews
Haywood-Ferreira, Rachel. The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction. Middletown,CT: Wesleyan UP, 2011. xi + 303 pp. Print. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
Valente, Luiz Fernando. Mundivivências: Leituras comparativas de Guimarães Rosa. Belo Horizonte: UFMG P, 2011. 163pp. Print. Hispania.
Assembleia estelar: histórias de ficção científica política. Intro. e edição Marcello Simão Branco. São Paulo: Devir, 2011. 400pp. Terra Magazine, Colunista, Roberto de Sousa Causo. 14 de maio, 2011.
http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI5128433-EI6622,00.html
Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Ed. Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003. 352 pp. Science Fiction Research Association Review 270 Oct./Nov./ Dec. 2004: 15-18.
“Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in Brazil, 1875-1959.” Ficção científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil 1875-1950. Roberto de Sousa Causo.Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2003. Extrapolation 44.3 (2003): 380-84.
“The Literature of the Turn of the Century: The End of Utopia?” A Literatura da Virada do Século Fim das Utopias? Izarra, Laura P. Zuntini de. Ed. São Paulo: University of São Paulo 2001. Utopian Studies 13.2 (2002): 152-54.
Terra Verde. Roberto de Sousa Causo. São Paulo: Cone Sul, 2000, and Amazon, Ataíde Tartari. San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: Writers Club Press, 2001. Hispania, 85: 3 (2002): 563-64.
O Crítico-Fã: Resenhas de Fiçcão Científica, Fantasia, Horror e Outras Formas Invisíveis de Literatura. Ed. Roberto de Sousa Causo. Brasópolis, Minas Gerais Edgard Guimarães, 1999. Biblioteca Essencial da Ficção Científica, Vol. 4. Science Fiction Studies 28 (2001): 310-311.
Prêmio Nova de Ficção Científica: Os Primeiros Dez Anos. Ed. Marcelo Simão Branco. Brasópolis Minas Gerais Edgard Guimarães, 1998. Biblioteca Essencial da Ficção Científica, Vol. 3. Science Fiction Studies 28 (2001): 309-310.
Jewish Voices in Brazilian Literature A Prophetic Discourse of Alterity, by Nelson H. Vieira. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995. South Atlantic Review 62.1 (1997):
147-49.
Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader. Vol. 1. The Years 1914-60, by John W. Foster Dulles. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. Hispania 75.3 (1992): 1192-93.
Antônio de Castro Alves: The Major Abolitionist Poems. Introduction and translation by Amy K. Peterson. New York: Garland, 1990. Hispania 75.2 (1992): 345-46.
Opúsculo Humanitário, by Nísia Floresta. Introduction and notes by Peggy Sharpe-Valadares. Brasília: INEP, 1989. Hispania 74.3 (1991) 680-81.
Retired Dreams: Dom Casmurro, Myth and Modernity, by Paul B. Dixon. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue UP, 1989. Hispania 74.3 (1991): 680-81.
Translation and Introductions:
Translated from Portuguese: Braulio Tavares. “João Guimarães Rosa’s “A Young Man, Gleaming, White” and the Protocol of the Question.” Ed. M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice.” New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. 61-72.
Translated from Portuguese: Octávio Aragão. “Brazilian Science Fiction and the Visual Arts: From Political Cartoons to Conttemporary Comics.” Ed. M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice.” New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. 185-202.
Translated from Spanish: Ana María Sánchez. “Between Utopia and Inferno (Julio Cortázar’s Version).” Julio Cortázar, New Readings. Ed. Carlos Alonso. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 19-35.
Introduction: FCB do B, Panorama da Ficção Científica Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Corifeu, 2007. 2-4.
Introduction: “Apresentação: Mulheres na literatura—fantásticas.” Lugar de mulher é na cozinha: histórias fantásticas do universo feminino. Ed. Martha Argel. São Paulo: Draco, 2012. 11-12.
Grants and Honors
2012 Latin American Studies Course Development Grants (3000) for Spanish Amer. SF
2011 Convocation, Faculty Honorees: University faculty designated as outstanding by the student award winners listed in this program
2010 Nominated for College Teaching Award
2010 FEO for Travel, SF in Spanish (15757) Summer A, 2010
2010 Course Development for Favela FLAC Course (2700)
2008–09 Colonel Allen and Margaret Crow Term Professorship (5000)
2007 Course Development Grant for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Latin America (2500)
2007 University of Florida International Center Grant Travel Grant for the Brazilian Filmmaker Joel Zito Araújo for Black History Month (1500)
2006 Course Development for Brazilian Culture in Rio de Janeiro POR 3500 (1500)
2005 HSBC Grant for Symposium: Latin America Writes Back, Oct. 27-29 (10,000)
Internal funding: Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Languages, Global Studies, University of Florida International Center, ORTGE
2001 Romance Languages Research Award
2001 University of Florida International Center, Producer/writer for the Video CD-ROM for the Program in Rio de Janeiro.
2001 University of Florida International Center, Planner/Host, Brazil Week and 20th Anniversary of the Program in Rio de Janeiro
1999 Romance Languages Research Award
1998 Humanities Enhancement Award, University of Florida
1998 Romance Languages Research Award, University of Florida (declined)
1990–91 Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Georgia
1990 Sarah Moss Research Grant, University of Georgia
1983–86 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar, Vanderbilt University
1982–83 Fulbright Scholarship for research in São Paulo, Brazil
Invited Talks
“Mitologia na ficção cientifica brasileira.” Iberoamerikanisches Institut, Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2013.
“Literatura brasileira em chave comparada.” V Encontro International: Conexões: Literatura Brasileira no Exterior: formas de estudo e modos de difusão. Itaú Cultural, São Paulo. Nov. 23, 2012.
“Rubem Fonseca and Brazil's Crime and Detective Fiction.” Brigham Young University, March 11, 2011
“The Body Politic in Latin American Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs.” Luso-Brazilian Keynote Luncheon Speaker, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April, 21, 2007.
“Literature under Military Dictatorship in Brazil.” Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. May 1998
At University of Florida
“Emergent Brazil and Science Fiction” March 14, 2013. Manuel Vazquez’s LAS 4935 Seminar.
Entre nous series, Romance Languages: “Detective Fiction in Brazil.” Panel Discussion with Natalia Jacovkis, Deborah Amberson, moderator Nov. 28, 2006, University of Florida.
“Eugenics and Literary Utopias in Brazil 1909-1929.” History of Science Colloquium Series, Oct. 12, 2006, University of Florida.
Conference papers and Roundtables
“Monteiro Lobato’s O presidente negro.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 20, 2013.
“Biological and Cybernetic Metaphors of Resistance in Brazilian Cyberpunk.” ICFA, Orlando FL, March 2013.
“Machado de Assis’s Tales of the Fantastic: Politics, Metaficion and the Macabre”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY April 19, 2012
“Dictatorship, Trauma and the Monstruous Fantastic in Tales from the Brazilian Amazon”
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando FL March 20, 2012
“Robots, Atlanteans, and Zombies: the Post-humans of Brazilian Steampunk”
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts March 2011
“Science Fiction in the Cinematic Works of Jorge Furtado.” With Alfredo Suppia. Eaton Conference on Science Fiction, Riverside CA, Feb. 2011.
“Borderlands: the Hybrid Body and Cyborgs in Mexican Science Fiction and Film.” XVI Annual Mexican Conference, University of California, Irvine, April 2010
“Implants and Alex Rivera’s Film, Sleep Dealer (2008)” Fantastic n the Arts, March 2010, Orlando, FL
“Tales of the Amazon and Atlantis in Brazilian Science Fiction.” Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, May 2009.
“Scouring the Postmodern Scrapheap: The Post-human in Third Wave Brazilian Science Fiction.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2009, Orlando, FL
“Menotti Del Picchia’s Adventure Trilogy.” Fourth Interdisciplinary Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Feb. 2009
“Visão Alienígena: Outros Olhares da Literatura Fantástica Brasileira.” Round table, Elizabeth Ginway and Alexandre Linhares. “Fantasticon.” São Paulo, July 2008.
“Teaching About Postcolonialism: Representations of Brazil in Anglo-American SF.” SFRA 2008 Lawrence, Kansas, July, 2008.
“The Amazonian ‘Lost Race’ Novels of Brazil: A Virgin Territory of its Very Own.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2008.
“Transgendered Characters in Brazilian Speculative Fiction: from the Sublime to the Absurd”
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL March 2008
“As mulheres presentes na literatura fantástica,” Mesa redonda: Elizabeth Ginway, Helena Gomes e Finisia Fideli, Fantasticon, São Paulo, July 2007.
“Finisia Fideli: Finding the Female Voice in Brazilian Science Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 2007.
“Literary Allusion in the Detective Fiction of Rubem Fonseca.” SAMLA, Charlotte, NC, Nov.. 2006
“Do implantado ao ciborgue: A violência dentro corpo social na ficção científica latinoamericana contemporânea.” 2nd Colloquium on Hispanic/Latin American Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures. University of Florida, Gainvesville, Oct. 2006.
“The Brazilian Fantasy Genre 2001-2004: Globalizing and Brazilianizing The Lord of the Rings.” International Conference: Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, March 2005.
“Transgenderings in Luso-Brazilian Speculative Fiction: Machado de Assis, André Carneiro and Sacha Ramos” MLA Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 2004.
"Critical Approaches to Science Fiction in the Third World: the Case of Brazil." SAMLA, Roanoke VA, Nov. 2004.
“Recent Science Fiction Written by Women” for the panel: The Future is Now. The Emergence of Science Fiction in Spanish and Portuguese in the U.S.” LASA, Las Vegas, October 2004.
“College Portuguese Offerings in the Southeastern United States.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2004.
“Hard Science Fiction: The Legacy of Dictatorship in Brazil.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.” Ft. Lauderdale, March 2004.
“Brazilian Science Fiction Written by Women 1960-2000.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April, 2003
“Dark Fantasy in Brazilian Science Fiction: Marcia Kupstas’s O demônio do computador.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,Ft. Lauderdale, March 2003
“Ecological Dystopias and Ecofeminism in Plinio Cabral and Ignácio de Loyola Bradão. SAMLA, Baltimore, MD, November, 2002.
“Vampires and Strong Women, Alternative Histories or Re-writing Brazilian Colonization.” AATSP, Rio de Janeiro, August 2002.
“O passado, o presente e o futuro da ficção científica brasileira.” Organizer and Moderator, AATSP, Rio de Janeiro, August 2002
“Tupinipunk or Brazilian Cyberpunk.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2002.
“Cyborg as Racial Other Continuity and Change in Brazilian Science Fiction.” SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 2001.
“Alien-Nation The Alien as Other in Brazilian Society.” Narrative: An International Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. April 2000.
“Unrealized, Unreconciled and Unredeemed Miscegenation in O mulato.” LASA, Miami, FL. March 2000.
“Researching Brazilian Science Fiction.” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Nashville, Tennessee. June 1999.
“Writing Against American Science Fiction Paradigms.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 1999
“Rewriting the Masters and the Slaves: Brazilian Science Fiction 1960-1963.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December, 1999.
“The Eugenics Movement and Utopian Literature in Brazil 1909-1929.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 1997.
“Portuguese Language Consortium in Florida Recruitment.” Portuguese Language Development Group, AATSP, Orlando, Florida, August, 1996
“The Monstrous Tenement Aluísio Azevedo’s O cortiço.” AATSP, San Diego, California, August, 1995.
“Transformations of Myth in Caminha’s Bom-Crioulo.” AATSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August, 1994.
“Uma leitura mítica de Luzia-Homem.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference,
Clemson, South Carolina, October, 1993.
“Eça e o Naturalismo no Brasil.” AATSP, Phoenix, Arizona, August 1993.
“Censorship and Identity the Quest Myth in Adaptação do Funcionário Ruam.” SAMLA, Knoxville, Tennessee, November, 1992.
“An Overview of Technology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction.” Northeast Regional Meeting, AATSP Manchester, New Hampshire, September, 1992.
“Continuity and Change in Brazilian Science Fiction: the Case of Jorge Luiz Calife.” The Fantastic and the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1992.
“Brazilian Dystopias.” AATSP, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1991.
“Brazilian Science Fiction The Bureaucrat’s Adaptation and Zamyatin’s We.” The Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1991.
“Benjamin Péret in Brazil Cultural Criticism or Cultural Exoticism?” Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, December, 1990.
“Technological Fiction and Two Women Writers Maria Alice Barroso and Ruth Bueno.” AATSP, Miami, Florida, March 1990.
“Two Brazilian Dystopias of the 1970s.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February, 1990.
“A Mechanical World Erotic Force in Rubem Fonseca’s O Caso Morel.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1989.
“The Metaphor of Engineering in J. Veiga and Murilo Rubião.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1988.
“Universe in Crisis The Role of Technology in J. Veiga.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, October, 1985.
“Benjamin Péret and Brazilian Modernism.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1984.
Teaching
University of Florida, 1995-present
Courses taught in Portuguese:
Elementary, Accelerated, and Intermediate Portuguese
Brazilian Culture (Summer Program in Rio de Janeiro)
Brazilian Science Fiction
Brazilian Drama
Machado de Assis
Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Literature
Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature
Brazilian Popular Music; Favela (FLAC: Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum)
Crime and Detective Fiction in Brazil
Courses taught in English
Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy
Brazilian Cinema
Culture of Dictatorship in Brazil
Courses in Spanish
Spanish-American Science Fiction
Seminar in Spanish American Literature: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Emory University 1994-95
Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Conversation
University of Georgia, 1989-1993
Elementary, Accelerated and Intermediate Portuguese
Brazilian Literature 1500-1900
Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature
Machado de Assis
Brazilian Theatre
Dystopian Fiction in Brazil
Naturalism in Brazil
New College, Fall 1988
Intermediate Spanish
Latin American Civilization
Vanderbilt University, 1981-87
Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Portuguese
Graduate Committees
University of Florida
PhD. Committees: Latin American Literature:
Andrea Villa
Paola Arboleda
Alicia Mercado-Harvey
Giovanna Rivero
Joseph Weakland, English
Lacy Hodges, English—Completed 2012
Natalia Jacovkis, Latin American Literature, completed, 2007
Sharon Barkley, Linguistics, completed 2009
Quinn Hansen, Linguistics, completed 2010
Marta Almeida, Linguistics, completed 1998
M. A. Director: Andrea Ferreira—(Crônicas of Machado de Assis)—Fall 2009
M. A. Co-director: Mary Risner, (Brazilian Business) 2001
M.A. Committees (thesis): MALAS: Juliana Azoubel, 2007 (Brazilian Dance); Edward Johnson, 2006 (Brazilian Business); Natalie Arsenault, 2002 (Brazilian Literature); Deborah Hooker (Brazilian Sociology) 1999
M.A. Committees (non-thesis): Christine Lizarraga, 1999; Natércia Príncipe, 1999; Ariadne Ferro, 1998
University of Georgia
M.A Committees (thesis): Tânia Herring, 1990; Ana Carvalho, 1991
M. A. Committees, Thesis Director
Stephen Walden. “A evolução da modernização autoritária e a função da música em Ópera do Malandro de Chico Buarque,” 1990.
Carolina Alvarez. “Análise de Quem matou Pacífico de Maria Alice Barroso,” 1991.
Undergraduate Honors; Paul H. Matthews. “La visión crítica de Angélica Gorodischer: Kalpa imperial I: La casa del poder y Kalpa imperial II: El imperio más vasto,” 1991.
Service
University of Florida 1995-present
Service to the Gainesville Community
Introduction for director Abner Benaim from Panama. The movie "Chance" Oct. 2011. Harn Museum of Art. Latino Film Festival,
Science Fiction Film Festival, Hippodrome Cinema Spring 2011 (4 films)
Panel participant “Waste Land” Brazilian Documentary, Feb. 26, 2011
Introduction to “Cinderellas, Wolves and a Prince Charming” Latino Film Festival Oct. 2010
Sponsorship of director Alex Rivera Sleep Dealer and introduction for the Latino Film Festival, Oct. 3, 2009
Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Series, Hippodrome State Theater, Spring 2009, planner and presenter, (7 films)
Brazilian Film Series planner and presenter, Hippodrome State Theater, Spring 2006 (4 films)
Introduction for Brazilian Film Central Station, Oct. 1, 2005 as part of celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month for the Latina Women's League and the Alachua County Library District
Introduction for Brazilian Film Central Station, Jan 13, 2005, Latin American Film Series
Service to the University:
Moderator for SECOLAS April 26, 2012
Moderator for OEGE, 2011, 2012 presenter 2009, 2012
Fulbright Interview Committee, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Administration of Celpe-Bras Portuguese Proficiency Test, 2006- present, Fall/Spring
Introduction to film “Sleep Dealer” dir. Alex Rivera, for the UF Common Reading Sept. Program, Sept. 2009
International Center Scholarship Evaluator 2002-2005, 2009, 2010
President, UF Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 2003-04
Vice-president, UF Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 2002-03
Foreign Language Area Study (FLAS) Award Committee 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011
Tinker Fellow Evaluation 2009
Graduate Council Student Conference evaluator, Spring Feb. 2009
Moderator for film director Malu de Martino, “Women of Brazil” Oct. 2006, Center LA Studies
Language Contact for US-Brazil Higher Education Consortium Program, US Department of Education/Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior CAPES
Proposal “Provost Teaching Fellows” in conjunction with the Carnegie Mellon Initiative in Undergraduate Teaching Seminar, organized by UCET, May 2000.
Faculty reader of Overseas Studies Scholarship Applications Spring 2000, 2001, 2002
Board Member of the University Center for Excellence in Teaching 1998-2000
Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), Center for Latin American Studies 2008-10
Affiliate to the Center for Latin American Studies, 1995-present
Latin American Studies Colloquium Speaker, January 1998
Consecutive translation for speaker Leonardo Boff, Spring 1996
Fulbright Interviewer for Spanish and Portuguese language, Fall 1995, 1996
Service to the department
Chair, Lower division coordinator search, 2013
Chair, internal chair search 2010
Chair, Latin American Literature Search 2008-09
Member of Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2003-05, 2008-09, 2010-11-12-13
Advisory Committee 1998-2001; 2007-12
Organizer, “Informal Talk with Director Alex Rivera” Bilingual Program, March 22, 2010
Chair, Spanish Sociolinguistics Search, Fall Spring 2005-06
Organizer, Latin American Symposium. Oct. 27-29 2005, “Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction and the Global Era.” Sponsored by HSBC of Miami
Masks in Brazilian Carnaval, Panelists for "Carnevale" Jan. 31, 2006 Univ. of Florida
Chair for “Parisian Spaces,” 20th and 21st Century International Conference, April 2005
Italian Search Committee Member, 2004-05
Speaker for the “Entre nous” series, March 2002
Adjunct Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2001-2002
Discussant for Carnival Carnevale Symposium, February 2001
Advisory Committee, 1998-2001; 2007-present
First-Year coordinator for Portuguese, 1996-present
Teaching Manual for Teaching Assistants in Portuguese, Summer 2000
Spanish-American Colonial Search Committee Member, 1997-98
Ad-hoc Bonus-Pay Committee, 1997
Multicultural Recognition Program, Faculty Sponsor, 1997
“Readers, Writers, Registers” Conference, Spring 1997, planned meals, food budget
Library Representative for Portuguese, 1995-96; 1998-99
Wrote new copy for the Portuguese Major for the Undergraduate Catalogue, 1995
Adjunct Faculty Evaluation Committee, Fall 1995
Service to the Portuguese section
Developed new courses, Favela, Brazilian Cinema, Detective Fiction, Brazilian Culture in Rio
Faculty sponsor for Phi Lambda Beta Awards Ceremony 1996--
First-year Language Coordinator for Portuguese 1130-31, POR 3010, 1996--
Co-host to Brazilian Guests from IBEU on the UF campus, March 2001
Created website for UF-sponsored program in Rio de Janeiro
Grant from Development Funds used from the Rio program to bring IBEU personnel to campus Grant to make a CD rom of the Rio program ($2400)
Faculty Sponsor of the Portuguese Brazilian Club 1997-98; participant, 1995-present
Organized Mini-Brazilian Film Festival, three films in October 1998 and April 1999
Acting Portuguese Undergraduate Coordinator, 1998-99
Visits to Spanish classes to promote Portuguese, 1995-1998
Chartered Phi Lambda Beta, Portuguese Honor Society, Spring 1997
Developed new courses on Brazilian Culture, Dictatorship and Development, Brazilian Cinema, Machado de Assis, Brazilian Science Fiction, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Crime Fiction and Favela.
Service to the profession
Editorial Boards: Extrapolation, one of the oldest journals dedicated to science fiction and Zanzalá – Estudos de Ficção Científica (ISSN 2236-8191) is the first Brazilian academic journal, peer-reviewed, dedicated to the study and research of science fiction in multiple formats: literature, film, television, theater, music, games, etc. based at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora.
Alambique, a journal dedicated to Latin American Science Fiction, University of South Florida
Semina, a journal dedicated to Brazilian SF in Universidade do Mato Grosso do Sul,
The Portuguese Language Journal, an on-line journal dedicated to the teaching of Portuguese.
Vetted Award essays by graduate students for International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, with a committee of three members
Vetted papers for ICFA, Jamie Bishop Awards for best foreign language essay, 2009; 2011, 2012, (ms. in Portuguese)
Member of the Executive Committee of SAMLA, 2004-2006
Organizer of Special Session, SAMLA, 2005: “Science Fiction and Fantasy in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives.”
Chair, Portuguese-Brazilian I, SAMLA, 2006, 2004, 2002
Organizer and Moderator for Roundtable “O passado, presente e futuro da ficção científica,” speakers: Roberto de Sousa Causo, Jorge Luiz Calife e Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro.” AATSP, Rio de Janeiro, August 2002.
Chair of Phi Lambda Beta session for AATSP, Denver, CO 1999
Chair of Session on José Saramago, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1999.
Chair, Portuguese Language Development Group, AATSP, Nashville, Tennesee Nov. 1997
Secretary, Portuguese Language Development Group, AATSP 1996
University of Georgia, 1989-93
Service to the department
Organized initiation for Phi Lambda Beta, Portuguese Honor Society
Simulated Oral Proficiency Test or SOPI Certification for Portuguese, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Member of Travel and Special Events committees
Proposed and taught a new course on Machado de Assis
Publication Reprint and Headship Search committees
Service to the profession
Chair, Portuguese and Portuguese African Literature, AATSP, Cancún, Mexico, August 1992
Chair and Organizer, Portuguese-Brazilian Sections, SAMLA, 1991; successfully petitioned for a second permanent section in Luso-Brazilian Literatures