Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian, and Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Globalization, Popular Culture, and Social Movements

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1 L EONORA S OUZA P AULA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Razor Hall Rice University 6100 Main MS-34, Houston, Texas PO Box 1892 Office: (713) leonora.paula@rice.edu C URRENT P OSITION RICE UNIVERSITY, 2013-present Assistant Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture (Tenure-track) Department of Spanish and Portuguese School of Humanities E DUCATION Ph.D. - Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (June 2013) Literature Department - University of California, San Diego Dissertation: Critical Geographies of Globalization: Buenos Aires and São Paulo in the 21st Century M.A. - Comparative Literature (2004) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil B.A. - English-Portuguese (2002) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil R ESEARCH I NTERESTS Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian, and Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Globalization, Popular Culture, and Social Movements P UBLICATIONS BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES Literatura periférica: ocupando o imaginário literário brasileiro contemporâneo. Revista Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, No. 48. Submitted. Literatura Periférica as a Cultural Response to Urban Violence in 21 st Century Brazil. Hispanófila. Forthcoming Fall 2016 Literatura Periférica: Challenging São Paulo s Cultural Segregation. The International Journal of the Constructed Environment. Accepted Crisis and Revolution: Activist Art in Neoliberal Buenos Aires. Imprints of Revolution: Global Resistance, the Popular, and (Post)/(Neo) Colonialism. Lisa Calvente and Guadalupe García (ed). (Chapter). Forthcoming Fall 2015 eles eram muitos cavalos: Challenging the Regulating Fiction of the Global City. Romance Notes (2014): Filosofia em quadrinhos: Diferença e Repetição em Salut Deleuze! Aletria, No. 15. Belo Horizonte: Editora da UFMG,

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2 Imaginary Places and Fantastic Narratives: Reading Borges through The Sandman. The Sandman Papers. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2006 TRANSLATIONS Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra. Aristocratas da Senzala: Gilberto Freyre na Interseção do Orientalismo e dos Estudos de Escravidão. Trad. Leonora Paula. Afro-Ásia, Vol. 37. Salvador: Editora da UFBA, 2009 G RANTS, S CHOLARSHIPS, H ONORS, AND A WARDS - Exemplary Diversity Scholar. National Center for Institutional Diversity. University of Michigan (2015) - Presidential Research Award. Rice University (2015) - Brazil Travel Grant. Rice University (2014) - Presidential Research Award. Rice University (2014) - Humanities Research Center Global Hispanism Workshop Award. Rice University (2014) - Presidential Research Award. Rice University (2013) - Human Rights Center Fellowship, Summer Internship with The Union of Housing Movements in São Paulo (UMMSP), São Paulo, Brazil. University of California Berkeley (2012) - Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Travel Award. UC San Diego (2012) - Literature Dept. One-Quarter Dissertation Writing Fellowship. UC San Diego (2011) - Summer Doctoral Fellowship, Pre-dissertation Research. Washington State University (2010) - Tinker Travel Grant, Pre-dissertation Research in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, UC San Diego (2010) - Literature Dept. Summer Research Award, UC San Diego ( ) - Latin American Institute Library Research Grant, University of California Los Angeles (2008) - Graduate Studies and Research Award, UC San Diego (2006) - CAPES Graduate Studies Fellowship (Masters), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ( ) C ONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS Peripheral Culture in Urban Brazil: New Voices Speak from the Margins. XXXIII Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2015 Reconsidering the Circulation Metaphor: Latin American Cultural Critiques of Global Exchange. Session organizer. XXXIII Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2015 Literatura Periférica: Challenging São Paulo s Cultural Segregation. The Constructed Environment Conference, 2014 Critical Geographies of Globalization in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction. University of Kentucky Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, 2014 A Periferia é o novo quilombo: representations of Afro-descendant identity in São Paulo s Literatura Periférica. Northeast Modern Language Association, 2014 The Periphery as a Source of Identity: Writing on the Margins of Brazilian Society. American Comparative Literature Association. NYU, 2014 Urban Housing Rights in Brazil: More Than Just a Roof and Four Walls. Annual Human Rights Fellows Conference. UC Berkeley,

Salvador: Editora da UFBA, 2009 G RANTS, S CHOLARSHIPS, H ONORS, AND A WARDS - Exemplary Diversity Scholar. National Center for Institutional Diversity.

3 The Global City as a Regulating Fiction: Representations of Urban Space in Brazilian Literature. Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), 2012 The 28th São Paulo Biennial as a Metaphor of Globalization. XXXI Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2012 Pixações, Graffiti, and the Writing of Inequality on São Paulo s Walls. Cross/words-Cross/roads: An Intersection of Language, Art and Culture Colloquium, San Diego State University, 2012 Urban Interventions in Neoliberal Buenos Aires: Stenciling the City Walls. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Symposium, University of California San Diego, 2011 Grupo de Arte Callejero and the Occupation of Neoliberal Buenos Aires. Conscripted Subjects Conference, University of California Los Angeles, 2011 T EACHING E XPERIENCE RICE UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Undergraduate and Graduate Courses - LASR/HIST 251: Brazil: Continuities and Changes - SPAN 346: Brazilian Short Fiction - SPAN 374: Brazilian Music and Culture - PORT 302: Brazil: Cultura e Realidades Sociais - PORT 303: Brazil: Literatura e Cultura - SPAN 346: Survey of 20 th Century Brazilian Literature and Culture - PORT 500: Brazil: Relações Raciais e Sociais 2013-present U NIVERSITY S ERVICE RICE UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT - Sole full-time faculty of the Portuguese section responsible for program building responsibilities: Assessment of needs and opportunities, curricular design, curricular implementation, curricular assessment, and program review - Consultant in the Study Abroad in Brazil program design ACADEMIC SERVICE - Portuguese Instructor Search Committee Member (Fall 2015) - Coordinator of the 2014/2015 Global Hispanism Workshop and Lecture Series. Theme - Brazilian Cultural Theory: Reconsidering the Center-Periphery Paradigm - Coordinator of Portuguese Language Exchange Program - Faculty Affiliate - History Department s Dual Degree with Universidade Estadual de Campinas/SP, Brazil. (2013 present) - Faculty liaison with the Consulate General of Brazil in Houston - Faculty liaison with the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication. Portuguese Language/Brazilian Literature (2013 present) - Faculty Associate, Duncan College (2013 present -3-

Cross/words-Cross/roads: An Intersection of Language, Art and Culture Colloquium, San Diego State University, 2012 Urban Interventions in Neoliberal Buenos Aires: Stenciling the City Walls.

4 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS - Faculty representative with the Abdias do Nascimento Diversity Inclusion Program/US-Brazil Academic Partnership (Fall 2014) P ROFESSIONAL S ERVICE Peer Reviewer The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, Spring 2015 P REVIOUS T EACHING E XPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO WARREN COLLEGE WRITING PROGRAM - TEACHING ASSISTANT - WCWP 10 B Writing Program: Language, Science, and the Academy ( ) - WCWP 10 A Writing Program: Identity and the Internet ( ) - WCWP 10 B Writing Program: The Human Debate ( ) THIRD WORLD STUDIES PROGRAM - TEACHING ASSISTANT - TWS 22: Latin American Literature ( ) Introduction to Latin American Literature - TWS 26: Literature of the Indian Subcontinent (2010) Introduction to Literatures of the Indian Subcontinent - TWS 24: Caribbean Literature (2010) Introduction to Literatures of the Caribbean LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT PORTUGUESE PROGRAM - TEACHING ASSISTANT - LIPT 1A: Brazilian Portuguese (2008) Introduction to Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture, Basic Grammar and Writing - LIPT 1AX: Brazilian Portuguese Grammar (2008) Introduction to Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture, Conversation LITERATURE DEPARTMENT SPANISH PROGRAM -TEACHING ASSISTANT - LTSP 1A: Spanish Language and Literature (2008) Introduction to Spanish Language and Hispanic Literatures and Culture A DMINISTRATIVE AND A CADEMIC S ERVICE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO - UCSD Brazil Initiative, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Project author and Program Coordinator ( ) - UCSD Brazil Initiative, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Visiting Scholars Liaison ( ) - UCSD Brazil Initiative, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Undergraduate research mentor ( ) -4-

WCWP 10 B Writing Program: Language, Science, and the Academy (2011-2013) - WCWP 10 A Writing Program: Identity and the Internet (2007-2009) - WCWP 10 B Writing Program: The Human Debate (2007-2009)

5 - Coordinator/Volunteer. Talks, Lectures and other Cultural events promoting Brazilian Studies on Campus. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies ( ) - Coordinator/Volunteer. Bate papo sessions of Portuguese conversation. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies ( ) - Graduate Student Committee. Comparative Literature Representative (2008) - Search Committee for Assistant Professor Luso-Brazilian Literature. Graduate Student Representative, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego (2008) A DDITIONAL T RAINING Instructor of Portuguese as Second and Heritage Language. Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco, CA (2011). Certified in Language and Cultural acquisition among Portuguese heritage speakers and learners of Portuguese as a Second Language P ROFESSIONAL A SSOCIATIONS Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) Modern Language Association (MLA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores Negros (ABPN) L ANGUAGES Portuguese (Native speaker) English (Native fluency) Spanish (Fluent) -5-

Comparative Literature Representative (2008) - Search Committee for Assistant Professor Luso-Brazilian Literature.

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS Curriculum Vitae Andrew C. Rajca Department of Spanish and Portuguese The University of Arizona Modern Languages 545 Tucson, AZ 85721 Email: rajca@email.arizona.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese,