Isabel Ferreira Gould
Assistant Professor of Portuguese; Director, Portuguese Language Program
(PhD, Brown University, 2004)
343 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-0460
email:Ferreira.5@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/ferreira-gould-isabel/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Portugal, Lusophone Africa, and Brazil
Thematic interests: Literatures and cultures of Portugal, Lusophone Africa, and Brazil: 20th and 21st centuries; empire, colonialism, and colonial wars; comparative perspectives on dictatorships; theorizations of and Lusophone perspectives on colonialism, post-imperialism, and postcolonialism; family and intergenerational memory; migration, immigration, and exile; life-writing and theory of autobiography; the new cinema of Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal.
Current research: Contemporary Portuguese narrative; colonial and postimperial Portuguese identity; family memory and genealogical consciousness; literature and medicine.
Selected publications: Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros, coedited with Sheila Khan, Leonor Simas-Almeida, and Sandra Sousa (Edições Colibri, Portugal, forthcoming); "A Daughter's Unsettling Auto/Biography of Colonialism and Uprooting," Ellipsis 8 (2010); “De Memórias e Dores Insepultas: Violência e Tortura na Ficção Portuguesa Contemporânea,” Teia Literária 3 (2009); “Decanting the Past: Africa, Colonialism, and the New Portuguese Novel,” Luso-Brazilian Review 45, 1 (June 2008); “Mulheres coloniais no novo romance português,” Letras de Hoje 42 (June 2007); “Revisitações do Último Império: Mulheres Portuguesas em África,” Revista Lusografias 4/5 (July–August 2006); “Ficções do Eu Colonial e Pós-Imperial: Memória, Família e Identidade em O Esplendor de Portugal,” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 12 (2006, forthcoming); “Maria Isabel Barreno’s O Senhor das Ilhas: Memory and Writing at the Threshold,” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 8 (2002).
