Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
Dissertation: Literature, Cultural Politics and Social Resistance: Quilombhoje Literary Practice and Production
Director: Randal Johnson

M.A., Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
Concentration in Twentieth-century Brazilian literature

B.A. in History, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1989

B.A. in Journalism, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Present: Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Nov 01-Jul 02: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia

Aug 99-Oct 01: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia

BOOKS UNDER CONSIDERATION

Writing Identity: the Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature. Book-length manuscript.

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

The Color of Crime: Representations of Race and Crime in Brazilian Popular Culture. Awarded a 2003 University Central Research Grant to start project. Research in progress. Expected completion date: August 2008.

ARTICLES IN REFERREED JOURNALS

Revisitando o Cânone Brasileiro: Autores Negros Contemporâneos e sua Re-interpretação Crítica da Poesia Negra no Modernismo [Revisiting the Brazilian Canon: Contemporary Black Authors and their Critical Re-interpretation of Black Modernist Poetry], forthcoming, EthosBrasil. Publicação do NUPE, Núcleo Negro da UNESP para Pesquisa e Extensão.

O Gosto Amargo da Festa – Literatura e Momento Político no Brasil:  1960/1990 [The Sour Taste of the Party – Literature and Political Moment in Brazil], Luso-Brazilian Review 37 (1): 107-16.

O Falocentrismo e seus Descontentes – por uma Leitura Feminista da Antropofagia [Falocentrism and its Discontents – for a Feminist Reading of the Anthropofagy], Nuevo Texto Crítico 23/24: 261-272.

Mulheres e Jogos Sociais em Machado de Assis [Women and Social Games in Machado de Assis], Chasqui 27 (1): 47-58.

La República y las Letras – Carácter Nacional en Brasil y Venezuela [The Republic and the Letters – National Character in Brazil and Venezuela], Mester 24 (2): 81-114.

Heróis em Dias Gomes:  o Teatro como Agente de Transformação Social [Heroes in Dias Gomes: Theater as Agent of Social Transformation], Romance Linguistics and Literature Review 7 (1): 16-23.

RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED

Summer 2003: Discovery Summer Grant, College of Arts & Science, VanderbiltUniversity.

Spring 2003: The University Lectures Committee, VanderbiltUniversity. Co-sponsor of the Special Lecture and Panel Discussion Black Women’s Writings in Brazilian. Esmeralda Ribeiro (lecturer and panelist), Rhonda Collier and Emanuelle Oliveira (panelists and organizers).

Summer 1998: Research Fellowship, Institute of American Cultures/Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (for dissertation research).

Summer 1998    Fellowship, Institute on Migration and Exile, BostonUniversity. For participation in the seminar Writing in the Americas.

Summer 1993    Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, LatinAmericanCenter, University of California, Los Angeles.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & INVITED LECTURES

Racial Representations and Criminality in Brazilian Popular Culture, Guest Speaker, Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, African American Studies & Research Center, Purdue University, October 19, 2004.

Diários de Detentos: Relatos, Cartas, & Raps [Diaries of Convicts: Narratives, Letters, & Rap Songs]. XXV Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9, 2004.

Chair and Moderator, Special Session, Affirmative Action in a Comparative Perspective: Brazil and United States. VII Brazilian Studies Association, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 10-13, 2004.

Uma Brincadeira Séria: Crime em Preto & Branco, as Distorções das Imagens do Negro na Mídia [A Serious Joke: Crime in Black & White, or the Distortions of Black Images in the Media], Guest Speaker, First International Seminary of Media and Ethnicity, ECA/USP (School of Arts and Communications/University of São Paulo), May 25-26, 2004.

Riding Along the National: Road Movies in Brazilian Cinema, FourthBiennialFloridaInternationalUniversity Conference on Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Film, February 26-28, 2004.

Engendering Identity in Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Poetry, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2-4, 2003.

Engendering Race: Black Women Writers in Brazil, XXIV Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX, March 27-29, 2003.

Black Women’s Writings In Brazil, special lecture and panel discussion, with Esmeralda Ribeiro, Afro-Brazilian writer, and Dr. Rhonda Collier from Lipscomb University, Vanderbilt University, Feb 12, 2003 (in co-operation with Lipscomb and Fisk Universities and co-sponsored by the University Lectures Committee).

Escritoras Afro-Brasileiras Hoje: Gênero, Política Cultural e Resistência Social [Afro-Brazilian Women Writers Today: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Social Resistance], The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 84^th Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 29-August 2, 2002.

Afro-Brazilian Literature: Past, Present, and Future. NEH Institute, “Teaching the African Diaspora: An Afro-Romance Approach,” Director’s Institute: Dr. Marvin Lewis. University of Missouri, Columbia, Summer 2001.

Black Faces, White Masks: Whitening Ideology and Black Women’s Writings in Brazil. Migration, Miscegenation, Maronnage. I Symposium of The Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora. University of Missouri, Columbia, April 14, 2001.

The Truth of Politics or the Politics of Truth: the Left and O Que É Isso Companheiro, 2001 – Truth In the Lens, University of Richmond, VA, March 22-24, 2001.

Carolina Maria de Jesus—From Shantytown to Stardom, V Brazilian Studies Association International Congress, Recife/Pernambuco, June 18-21, 2000.

Literature, Cultural Resistance and Social Change:  the Case of Quilombhoje, Second Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures:  Literature as Social Critique, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 22-24, 1996.

Black Women Writers in Brazil:  the Politics of Race and Gender, III Biennial Conference on Culture, Technology and Change in the Americas, University of South Florida, Tampa, April 5-9, 1995.

Produção Literária e Momento Político no Brasil: 1970-1990 [Literary Production and Political Moment in Brazil: 1970-1990], XVII Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia),University of California, Los Angeles, April 23-24, 1994.

BOOK REVIEWS

Benedita Gouveia Damasceno. Poesia Negra no Modernismo Brasileiro. São Paulo: Pontes Editora, 2003. 2nd ed. forthcoming, Ethos Brasil. Publicação do NUPE, Núcleo Negro da UNESP para Pesquisa e Extensão.

Nancy T. Baden. The Muffled Cries: The Writer and Literature In Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1985. New York: UP of America, 1999. Luso-Brazilian Review 38 (1): 154-55.

TRANSLATION

Jesus, Carolina Maria de.  Bitita’s Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus.New York: E. M. Sharp, 1999 (with Beth Vinkler).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Present: Vanderbilt University


College and departmental committees:
College: International House Advisory Committee, 2003-2004.
Department: Library Committee, Graduate Recruitment Committee, Graduate Summer Grants Committee, 2002-2004.

Doctoral committees, students: Lori Lammert, Vanessa Valdes, Isabel Asensio, and Robert Trent.

Feb 2003: Vanderbilt University

Organizer and speaker in the panel “Black Women’s Writings In Brazil,” with Esmeralda Ribeiro, a renowned Afro-Brazilian writer, and Dr. Rhonda Collier, Assistant Professor of English at Lipscomb University. Co-sponsored by the University Lectures Committee at Vanderbilt University, Lipscomb and Fisk Universities.

Aug 01-Jul 03: University of Missouri, Columbia

Undergraduate Committee.

Oct 99-Jul 01: University of Missouri, Columbia

Library Committee.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Present: BRASA, Brazilian Studies Association, Elected member of the executive committee. 

March 2003: NEH 2003 Summer Seminar for School Teachers The Outsider: Picaresque Variations in Narrative and Film, member of selection committee.
Director: Dr. Edward Friedman
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, VanderbiltUniversity.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association (MLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
College Language Association (CLA)

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF RESEARCH

Afro-Brazilian and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
Brazilian Cinema, Hispanic Cinema, and Film Studies
Cultural Studies as a Framework for Literary Theory
Contemporary Hispanic American Literature
Race Relations
Feminist Theory

TEACHING INTERESTS

Twentieth Century Brazilian Literature
Nineteenth Century Brazilian Literature
Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature
Latin American Women Writers
Twentieth Century Latin American Novel and Short Story

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

Portuguese (native)
English (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
French (reading)
Italian (reading)

OTHER

Proficient in Blackboard, Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Photoshop, Fusion, and Microsoft Powerpoint.

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