Description: Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Born in the Azores, Portugal, emigrated to the US in 1963. Lived in California for 14 years; has resided in Amherst, MA since 1976. Taught Spanish and Portuguese language and literatures at the undergraduate level; Portuguese, Lusophone African, and Brazilian literatures at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and courses in Portuguese- and English-language literature of the Portuguese diaspora in the US. Literary critic, autobiographer, short story writer, and translator.
Contemporary Portuguese Poetry and Short Story; Interrelations of the Arts; Lusophone African Literature; Representations of Orality in Literature; Literature of the Portuguese Diaspora; writing of Autobiography, short story, crónica, and short narrative in general; the works of Jorge de Sena, Vitorino Nemésio, and Fernando Pessoa.