Areas of Interest:
19th and 20th century Brazilian literature; Brazilian cinema; contemporary Portuguese literature; the ethnic literatures of the United States; the literatures of the Americas; (post)colonial, subaltern, ethnic, and transnational studies; narratology; the city in literature; the sublime
Name: A. Luciano Tosta
Rank: Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: Brown University (2006)
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Current Projects:
  1. • Confluence Narratives in the Literatures of the Americas
  2. • Brazilian-American Literature: On the Crossroads of Cultural Identities
 
Selected Publications:
 
  1. Chapters in books:
  2. 1.“Is There a Brazilian-American Cinema?” The Other Latinos: Central and South Americans in the United States. José Antonio Mazzotti and José Luis Falconi, eds. Cambrdige: DRCLAS Series, forthcoming 2007.
  3. 2.“Re-reading the Cannibal: Postcolonial Fantasies in Oswald de Andrade’s Antropofagia.” Carnal Fantasies: Cannibalism in Latin American Culture. Kinberle López & Leila Lehnen, orgs. Forthcoming 2006 (essay submitted, and accepted by organizers in the first phase but participation has not been confirmed yet)
  4. 3.“American Dream, Jeitinho Brasileiro: On the Crossroads of Cultural Identities in Brazilian-American Literature.” Companion to Latino Literature in the United States. Carlota Caulfield & Darién Davis, eds. London: Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming 2006.
  5. 4.“The Other as Self or as Other? The Brazilian Gaze at Other Latinos in Brazuca Novels.” Brasil e Hispanoamérica: la mirada oblicua/o olhar oblíquo: América Hispânica e Brasil. Rodolfo Franconi, ed., forthcoming 2007.
  6. 5.“Uma In(ter)venção da Memória: A Universalização do Particular na Poesia Histórica de Cora Coralina.”  Cora Coralina: A Nova Fortuna Crítica.  Goiândira Ortiz Camargo and Darcy Denófrio, eds. Goiânia: Cânone, forthcoming April 2006.
  7. 6.“Além de Textos e Contextos: Língua Estrangeira, Poesia e Consciência Cultural Crítica.”  Recortes Interculturais na Sala de Aula de Línguas Estrangeiras.  Kátia Mota and Denise Scheyerl, eds.  Salvador: EDUFBA, November 2004. 107-41.
 
  1. Articles in Refereed Journals:
  2. 1.“Between Heaven and Hell: Perceptions of Brazil and the United States in Brazuca Literature.”  HISPANIA 88.4 (Dec. 2005): 713-725.
  3. 2.“Latino, Eu? The Paradoxical Interplay of Identity in Brazuca Literature.”  HISPANIA 87.3 (Sept. 2004): 576-585.
  4. 3.“Machado de Assis: A Obra Entreaberta.”  Luso-Brazilian Review.  41.1 (June 2004): 37-55.
  5. 4.“Exchanging Glances: The Streetcar, Modernity, and the Metropolis in Brazilian Literature.”  Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana.  32.2 (November 2003): 35-52.
  6. 5.“Murmúrios textuais, históricos e pósmodernos em A costa dos murmúrios."  EPA.  Estudos Portugueses e Africanos.  41 (Jan./Jun. 2003): 71-87.
  7. 6.“O ‘Sublime’ Sertão em O Sertanejo, Os Sertões e Grande Sertão: Veredas.”  Letras de Hoje.  36.1  (March 2001): 7-26. 
Courses taught:
 
  1. • The Migrant, the Foreigner, the Other: Representations in Brazilian Literature and Cinema
  2. • Fiction and History in Dictatorial Brazil
  3. • Cultural Encounters in the Literatures of the Americas: Representations of the Colonial Period
  4. • Brazilian Culture through Brazilian Cinema