Isabel Ferreira Gould

Assistant Professor of Portuguese; Director, Portuguese Language Program
(PhD, Brown University, 2004)
; on leave during 2007-2008.
343 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-0460
email:Ferreira.5@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/ferreira.html

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, political police, and torture; theorizations of and Lusophone perspectives on colonialism, post-imperialism, and postcolonialism; family and intergenerational memory; migration, immigration, and exile; testimonials of urban underdevelopment and social change; life-writing and theory of autobiography; the new cinema of Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal.

Current research: Contemporary Portuguese narrative; the intimate dimension of the African empire in the construction of colonial and post-imperial Portuguese identity; family memory and genealogical consciousness.

Selected publications: “Decanting the Past: Africa, Colonialism, and the New Portuguese Novel, ” Luso-Brazilian Review 45, 1 (forthcoming, 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 (2004, forthcoming); “Maria Isabel Barreno’s O Senhor das Ilhas: Memory and Writing at the Threshold,” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 8 (2002).