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SANDRA I. SOUSA
Department of Spanish and Portuguese 528 N. Dubuque St., Apt 21
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52245
111 Phillips Hall (774) 451-3888
Iowa City, IA, 52242-1323 sandraasousa@gmail.com
(319-335-2923)
sandra-sousa@uiowa.edu
Education
2012 Ph.D., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
Dissertation: “Ficções do Outro: Império, Raça e Subjectividade no Moçambique Colonial.”
(Supervisor: Leonor Simas-Almeida; Reader 1: Nelson Vieira; Reader 2: Anani Dzidzienyo).
Defended: 09/14/2012
2011 M.A., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (2011), Brown University
2006 M.A., Portuguese Studies, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
2001 B.A., Portuguese Language and Culture, University of Lisbon
Professional Experience:
2012- Fall University of Iowa
Visiting Assistant Professor (PORT 100, 101)
2012- Spring University of Iowa
Visiting Instructor (PORT 100, 101, 102)
2012- Spring Academic Translator (Portuguese to English)
Nataniel Ngomane, “Transculturação e Representatividade Linguística em Ungulani Ba
Ka Khosa: “Um Comparitivismo da Solidariedade.””
Teresa Cruz e Silva, “As Ciências Sociais e as Instituições de Ensino Superior como
motores de mudança no processo de “vulnerabilização” dos países africanos: O Caso de
Moçambique.”
Ricardo Lagos Escobar at the website “Intercâmbio Climático”
http://www.intercambioclimatico.com/pt-br/2011/05/27/diplomacia-latino-americana-eelemento-chave-para-o-sucesso-das-conversacoes-acerca-do-clima-em-durban/
***several articles in Onésimo’s Almeida book
2011 Rhode Island College
Visiting Instructor (PORT 102 – Fall semester)
(PORT 202- Spring semester)

2011- Fall Reviewer (article submissions) for the journal Hispania
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2011- Summer Middlebury College
Visiting Lecturer, Culture and Civilization of Portuguese Africa (July 11-July 22)
Rhode Island College
Visiting Instructor: Independent Study (Survey of Portuguese Literature); Portuguese 202
2010- Spring Rhode Island College
Visiting Instructor (Portuguese Literature II)
2010 John Hay Library, Brown University
Curator (with Ana Valdez) of the exposition “Portugal, 1910: The Advent of the
Republic”
2010-11 Brown University
TF (POBS 620 Mapping Portuguese Speaking Cultures- Spring Semester)
Teaching Assistant (POBS 400- Fall Semester)
2009-10 Brown University
Teaching Assistant (POBS 200- Spring Semester)
Teaching Assistant (POBS 100- Fall Semester)
2009- Fall Academic Translator (English to Portuguese)
“Postal para Eduíno” (George Monteiro), “Um tributo a um meu professor no curso para
estrangeiros de 1993, Eduíno de Jesus (Stefan Halikowski-Smith), “Interconnection”
(Leons Briedis) in the volume EDUÍNO DE JESUS - a Ca(u)sa dos Açores em
Lisboa.Homenagem de amigos e admiradores. Onésimo Teotónio Almeida and Leonor
Simas-Almeida (orgs.)
2007-08 University of Rhode Island
Part-time Lecturer (POR 200 – Spring Semester)
Part-time Lecturer (POR 100 – Fall Semester)
Brown University
Teaching Assistant (POBS 200 – Spring Semester)
Teaching Assistant (POBS 100 – Fall Semester)
2008 Brown University
Research / Editing Assistant - Onésimo Almeida, Comunidades portuguesas dos Estados
Unidos: Identidade, assimilação, aculturação. (May)
A Obsessão da Portugalidade. (June)
Açores, Açorianos, Açorianidade. (July)
Curriculum. (July)
Manuscrip editing: “Angola um País a Renascer.” Neil Breslin (July)
Production Assistant for Novel A Forum on Fiction (Vol 41 Nº2/3 Spring/Summer 2008):
“Nation, Identity and Loss of Footing: Mia Couto’s O Outro Pé da Sereia and the
Question of Lusophone Postcolonialism.”
2007 Assistant to the Editor of PLCS 11
Assistant to the Editor of the Portuguese in the Americas Series
Translator to Portuguese of the Student Handbook for the Espírito Santo School

2007- Summer University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth (Summer Course)
Bridgewater State College
Visiting Lecturer (Summer Course I and II)
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2006-07 Translator of Bridges, the parent newsletter for the SouthCoast Education Compact
2006-07 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Part-time Visiting Lecturer (POR 100)
Bridgewater State College
Part-time Visiting Lecturer (PORT 100, 200)
Espírito Santo School
Part-time Lecturer (Portuguese 6 th , 7 th , 8 th grades)
2006 Assistant to the Editor of the Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies and Adamastor
Book Series;
Assistant to the Portuguese Studies MA Director;
Translator to the South Coast Planning Guide for college students;
Translator to Portuguese of the SMAST project for fishermen training
Translator of Bridges, the parent newsletter for the SouthCoast Education Compact
2006 University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth (Summer Course)
2004 -06 Translator for the Cultural Institute of the R.A.E. of Macau
2005 University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Teacher Assistant (Fall and Spring semester)
Lecturer, Summer Course
2004: University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Assistant of the Editor
Lecturer, Summer Course
2003 University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Lecturer, Summer Course
2002 University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
Assistant of the General Editor of Adamastor Book Series
Spellchecker of the Portuguese Language Book Bom Dia!, Spinner Publications
Lecturer, Summer Course
September 2001 to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Camões Institute Visiting Lecturer (Taught all
June 2004 levels of Portuguese language classes, from beginning to advanced courses)
1998-2000: University of Lisbon
Substituting in Portuguese for Foreign Students

Articles:
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“As contradições da escravatura na Baía do século dezanove: Viva o Povo Brasileiro e Domingos Sodré.” Fórum de
Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (Março 2012). http://www.forumlitbras.letras.ufrj.br/joomla/index.php/ensaios
“João Paulo Borges Coelho.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and
Richard Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012: 25-28.
“João Dias.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon.
Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012: 75-78.
“Lina Magaia.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard
Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012: 106-110.
“João Melo.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon.
Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012: 111-115.
“Clarice Lispector: Subsídios para o género masculino e feminino.” Hispania. Vol 95, 2 (June 2012): 227-235.
(With Daniel Silva) “Demarginalising Portugal’s Elderly: Representations of Ageing in José Luís Peixoto’s Cal.”
Forum for Modern Language Studies. Oxford University Press 47, 1 (January 2011): 210-221.
“‘Conheces o nome que te deram, não conheces o nome que tens’: a questão identitária do nome próprio e a
experiência nipo-brasileira em O Sol se Põe em São Paulo de Bernardo Carvalho.” Revista Iberoamericana 230, vol.
LXXVI (Enero-Marzo 2010): 187-199.
“O pacto emocional em Os Cus de Judas.” Divergencias Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literários 1, vol. 8
(verano 2010): 12-19.
“A Importância do Espaço na Constituição do Género em O Primo Bazilio de Eça de Queiroz.” Caligrama Vol 15,
N. 1 (Jan-Jun 2010): 253-278.
“Portuguese Literature.” World and Its Peoples–Europe. Vol. 5 (Spain and Portugal). Marshall Cavendish
Reference, New York (2009).
“Margo Milleret. Latin American women on/in stages. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.
263p.” Brasil Brazil 37 (ano 21/2008): 110-114.
“Fernando Pessoa: O mistério da arte de fingir.” Romance Notes. Vol. XLVII N.2 (Winter 2007): 225-233.
“Duas Cartas, duas mortes no feminino.” Conference Proceedings of the 2006 Hawaii International Conference on
Arts & Humanities.
Forthcoming:
“Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra. White Negritude. Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural identity. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 194 p.” Brasil Brazil
(With Leonor Simas-Almeida) “Racial, Cultural and Emotional (des)encounters: Mia Couto’s hopeful pessimisme
in Terra Sonâmbula and O Outro Pé da Sereia.” Dialogues with Mozambique.

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Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros. Ed. Sheila Khan, Isabel Ferreira-Gould, Leonor
Simas-Almeida and Sandra Sousa. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
“A conjugação do verbo odiar em O Matador de Patrícia Melo.” Revista SOLETRAS
“A influência do luso-tropicalismo na literatura colonial portuguesa da década de 60: mito ou realidade?” Revista
Trama
Honors, Grants, Fellowships
Brown University, Tinker Grant – Research in Brazil, 2009
Elected to membership in Phi Lambda Beta, 2002-
Selected Conference Papers:
“Duas Cartas, duas mortes no feminino.” Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium, Georgetown, Washington
DC, October 2005.
“Como Incentivar os Alunos para o Conjuntivo? Algumas Tentativas.” 4th Annual Conference on Portuguese
Language Education, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, September 2006.
“A Importância do Espaço na Constituição do Género em O Primo Basílio de Eça de Queiroz.” Graduate Portuguese
and Hispanic Symposium, Georgetown, Washington DC, September 2006.
“A Importância do Espaço na Constituição do Género em O Primo Basílio de Eça de Queiroz.” APSA Fifth
International Congress, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 2006.
“Os Espaços Masculinos e Femininos em O Primo Basílio de Eça de Queiroz.” 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2007.
“Production of the Subjunctive in Portuguese: Heritage vs Non-Heritage Learners.” 61th Annual RMMLA
Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 2007.
“The importance of space and gender in O Primo Bazilio by Eça de Queiroz.” Conference of the Association of
British and Irish Lusitanists, University of Bristol, Bristol, January 2008.
(Chair of the session Bahia and Brazilian Culture) “Gabriela, dinheiro com cor de canela.” BRASA Ninth
International Congress, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 2008.
“Fernando Pessoa: O mistério da arte de fingir.” 61th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2008.
“Heritage language learning and the Portuguese subjunctive.” APSA Sixth International Congress, Yale University,
New Haven, October 2008.
“Quando as mulheres transgridem o espaço: uma análise de Buriti de João Guimarães Rosa.” LASA XXVIII
International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, June 2009.
“The Contradictions of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Bahia.” III Annual Graduate Student Conference, Brown
University, October 2009.

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“Cartas Reais de um Amor Fingido.” Twentieth Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2010.
“Racial and Cultural (des)encounters in Mia Couto’s O Outro Pé da Sereia.” Aegis Thematic Conference, Dialogues
with Mozambique, Trondheim, Norway, March 2010.
“As teias raciais em O Olho de Hertzog de João Paulo Borges Coelho.” APSA Seventh International Conference,
Brown University, October 2010.
Moderator of the session “Mozambican Literature II.” APSA Seventh International Conference, Brown University,
October 2010.
“Understanding slavery: João Ubaldo Ribeiro and João José Reis.” ASA 53 rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
November 2010.
“Deslocamento, identidade e o direito a um nome: A experiência nipo-brasileira em O Sol se Põe em São Paulo de
Bernardo Carvalho.” The 126th MLA Annual Convention. Los Angeles, 6-9 January 2011.
“Where do I belong? -The Place of the Assimilado in João Paulo Borges Coelho’s O Olho de Hertzog.” ACLA
Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 31-April 3, 2011.
Presentation on US experiences at the International Graduate Student Orientation. Brown University, Providence,
RI, August 25, 2011.
“A Literatura Colonial dos anos 20 e 30 de século XX: Uma Perspectiva Histórica e Literária.” Association of
History, Literature, Science and Technology, Madrid, 27-29 June, 2012.
“The Hidden Tragedies of Colonialism in Portuguese Colonial Literature of the 20’s and 30’s.” APSA 8th
International Conference, The University of Iowa, October 2012.
Professional Service
2005-06: Graduate Student Vice-Representative, Department of Portuguese, University of Massachusetts –
Dartmouth
Professional Membership
Modern Language Association
Brazilian American Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
South Central Modern Language Association
American Portuguese Studies Association
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology