Matthews
Lecture
NELSON VIEIRA
WAYS OF BEING JEWISH IN BRAZIL: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF IDENTITY
IN BRAZILIAN-JEWISH FICTION
May 14, 1999
3:00pm
306 Royce Hall
UCLA
Nelson H. Vieira
Brown University
Professor, Luso-Brazilian and Brazilian-Jewish Literature
A native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Professor Vieira studied in
Brazil and Portugal. His teaching and research interests include:
1: Brazilian literature of late 19th and the 20th centuries, with
special emphasis on Machado de Assis, M·rio de Andrade, Rubem Fonseca,
Clarice Lispector, SÈrgio Sant'Anna, and Dalton Trevisan;
2. cultural studies and national identity;
3. metafiction, first-person narration, and narratology;
4. literary translation;
5. race, gender, ethnicity, and alterity.
Co-founder and US editor of Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian
Literature, Professor Vieira is also on the Editorial Board of the
Latin American Literary Review. A member of several professional and
scholarly organizations, Professor Vieira was President of the Northeastern
Association of Brazilianists (1985-87) and is currently President
of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA), Advisory
Board Member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Contemporary Studies
(CIEC) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Professor Vieira
was Director of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University
from 1980 to 1991.
Some of his earlier publications include Brasil e Portugal: A Imagem
RecÌproca, and The Promise, a translation of a play by
Bernardo Santareno. Recent publications include Jewish Voices in
Brazilian Literature: A Prophetic Discourse of Alterity, Construindo
a Imagem do Judeu: Algumas Abordagens TeÛricas (ed); and "Bruxaria
and Espiritismo: Popular Culture and Popular Religion in Contemporary
Brazilian Fiction."
Information courtesy of Brown University, Department of Portuguese
and Brazilian Studies
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