A. Cristina C. Ferreira-Pinto Bailey Department of Modern Languages (512)245-2360 Texas State University San Marcos ap19@txstate.edu EDUCATION 1989 Ph.D., Brazilian and Spanish American Literatures, Tulane University 1984 M.A., Luso-Brazilian Literature, Tulane University 1982 B.A., English, Universidade de Brasília TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001-present Visisting Assistant Professor, Texas State University San Marcos July 2001 Visiting Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul 1994-2001 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin 1990-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1991, 1994 Visiting Lecturer, College of the Holy Cross 1989-1990 Faculty, Simon's Rock of Bard College 1983-1989 Teaching Assistant, Tulane University AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Nineteenth-Century through Contemporary Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies Modern Latin American Fiction Latin American Women's Literature Gender Studies Spanish and Portuguese Languages BOOKS 2004 Gender, Discourse and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP. (literary criticism) 2002 Poesia da vida meia. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras. 64 pp. (poetry) 1999 Urban Voices: Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil. Editor, introduction, and
Ferreira-Pinto 2 notes. Lanham, MD: UP of America. 250 pp. (anthology) 1990 O Bildungsroman Feminino: Quatro Exemplos Brasileiros. São Paulo: Perspectiva. 159 pp. (literary criticism) ARTICLES (SELECTED) 2003 Looking at the Margins from the Borderlands: Understanding Gender and Ethnicity in Brazilian Women s Literature. Feministas Unidas Newsletter23.2 (Fall): 38-41 2002 O desejo lesbiano no conto de escritoras brasileiras contemporâneas. Revista Mulheres e Literatura 8. www.letras.ufrj.br/litcult Autobiografia Feminista: o confronto do eu e do social no romance de escritoras latino-americanas. Letras de hoje 130 v. 37 nº 4: 21-40 1999 * Sonia Coutinho: Desconstruindo mitos de feminilidade, beleza e juventude. Hispania 82 (Dec): 713-24 * O desejo lesbiano no conto de escritoras brasileiras contemporâneas. Revista Iberoamericana 187 (April-June): 405-21 1997 * Escrita, auto-representação e realidade social no romance feminino latino americano. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 45: 81-95 1996 * The Fantastic, the Gothic and the Grotesque in Contemporary Brazilian Women s Novels. Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 25.2 (Nov): 71-80 1995 * El rescate de la figura materna en En breve cárcel de Sylvia Molloy. Romance Notes 36. 2 (Winter): 155-162 * La mujer y el canon poético en Brasil a principios del siglo XX: hacia una reevaluación de la poesía de Gilka Machado. La Torre 34 (April-June): 221-41. Transgressão em Clarice Lispector: Perto do Coração Selvagem. Grama y Cal [Spain] 1 (January): 105-14 1993 * Feminist Consciousness in the Novel of Lygia Fagundes Telles. Modern Language Studies 23. 4 (Fall): 4-17 1991 * La narrativa cinematográfica de Borges. Revista Iberoamericana 155-156 (April-Sept): 495-50 * El narrador intimista de Silvina Ocampo: La continuación. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (1990-91): 309-15 * Indicates refereed journal BOOK CHAPTERS 2004 Rubén Darío y Fernando Pessoa: estudio comparativo de dos poemas. Miradas críticas a Rubén Darío. Ed. Nicasio Urbina. Managua: CIRA (in press) 1997 Antonio Callado: a identidade latino-americana da nação brasileira. 1997 Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures: Selected Proceedings. Ed. Claire Paolini. New Orleans: Tulane U. 135-43
Ferreira-Pinto 3 Consciência Feminista/Identidade Feminina: Relações entre Mulheres na Obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles. Entre resistir e identificar-se: para uma teoria da prática da narrativa brasileira de autoria feminina. Ed. Peggy Sharpe. Florianópolis: Editora Mulheres; Goiânia: Editora da Universidade Federal de Goiás. 65-79 REVIEWS SOLICITED REVIEWS 2004 Peter M. Beattie, ed. The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2004. (The Human Tradition around the World Series, nº 7). 304 pp. DeRLAS Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 5.1. www.udel.edu/lasp/derlas.html 2002 Antonio Cicero et al. Outras praias: 13 poetas brasileiros emergentes/other Shores: 13 Emerging Brazilian Poets. Ed. Ricardo Corona. Intro. Antonio Risério. Posfácio Charles A. Perrone. Trad. Charles A. Perrone et al. São Paulo: Iluminuras, 1998. Ellipsis. Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association 2 (2000): 106-110 1998 Patrícia Melo. The Killer. Trans. Clifford E. Landers. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1997. World Literature Today 72.2 (Spring): 357 1995 Edgard Telles Ribeiro. O livro das pequenas infidelidades. São Paulo: Cia. Das Letras, 1994. World Literature Today 69:4 (Autumn): 77 Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda and Lucia Nascimento Araújo. Ensaístas brasileiras: Mulheres que escreveram sobre literatura e arte de 1860 a 1991. Rio: Rocco, 1993. World Literature Today 69.1 (Winter): 122 1994 Elena Poniatowska. Tinísima. Mexico: Era, 1992. World Literature Today 68. 1 (Winter): 90-91 REVIEW ESSAY 1997 David William Foster. Alternate Voices in the Contemporary Latin American Culture. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1985 ---. Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1994 ---. Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing. Austin: U of Texas P, 1991 ---. Spanish, American and Brazilian Literature: A History of Disconsonance. Hispania 75.4 (1992): 966-78 In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 45: 214-16 ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Ferreira-Pinto 4 CRITICAL ENTRIES 2001 Who s Who in Contemporary Women s Writing. Ed. Jane Eldridge Miller. London: Routledge. Entries on: Lygia Fagundes Telles. Sonia Coutinho. 2000 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Eds. Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M. López. London: Routledge. Entries on: Antonio Callado; Caio Fernando Abreu Ignácio de Loyola Brandão; Lúcia Miguel Pereira Lygia Fagundes Telles BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES 1994 An Annotated Bibliography of Hispanic Feminist Criticism. Ed. Lou Charnon- Deutsch. Stony Brook, NY: Ediciones Feministas Unidas. Entries on: Lúcia Castello Branco and Ruth S. Brandão. A Mulher Escrita. Rio: Casa Maria Editorial, 1989. Earl E. Fitz. Clarice Lispector. Boston: Twayne, 1985. Doris Meyer and Margarite Fernández Olmos, eds. Contemporary Women Authors of Latin America: Introductory Essays. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn College P, 1983 INVITED LECTURES 2004 A voz e o corpo da mulher na literatura brasileira. Universidade de Brasília, May 24 2002 Keynote Address. Women in Brazilian Literature: From Myth to Agency. Eighth Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 23 2000 "Gender, Discourse, Desire in Brazilian Literature." Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University, January 24 1996 Consciência Feminista/Identidade Feminina: Relações entre Mulheres na Obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles. Symposium on Para uma Prática da Narrativa Brasileira Feminina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 22 Brazilian Women Writers and Their Reality. Latin American Studies Program, Union College, Albany, NY, February 9 CONFERENCES (SELECTED) 2005 Brazil s ethnic profile in the repressed female body. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, February 2003 Looking at the Margins from the Borderlands: Understanding Gender and
Ferreira-Pinto 5 Ethnicity in Brazilian Women s Literature. MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2002 Female Agency, Eroticism, and Pornography: Reading Marilene Felinto s As mulheres de Tijucopapo Twenty Years Later. AATSP Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, July-August 2001 Gender and Race in Brazilian Literary Scholarship, and in the Classroom: Problems, Approaches and Strategies. MLA Convention, New Orleans, December "Diálogos poético-eróticos: Marina Colasanti e Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna." AATSP Annual Meeting, San Francisco, July 2000 "Erótica: A Expressão do Desejo Feminino na Literatura de Escritoras Brasileiras." American Portuguese Studies Association Second International Congress, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October "O conto de Sonia Coutinho." Simpósio Internacional "Brasil: 500 Anos de Descobertas Literárias." Universidade de Brasília, Mar-April 1999 Romantismo, ideologia e pós-modernismo na ficção de Sonia Coutinho. AATSP Annual Meeting, Denver, August 1998 Lesbian Desire in Contemporary Short Stories by Brazilian Women Writers, Ninth International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Arizona State University, September From Ambiguity to Explicit Eroticism: The Representation of Female Homosexuality in Short Stories by Contemporary Brazilian Women Writers, American Portuguese Studies Association First International Congress, Yale University, March 1997 A marginalidade urbana na obra de Fernando Bonassi, ACTFL-AATSP Convention, Nashville, November Brazil s Latin American Identity in Antonio Callado s Novels, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, February-March 1995 Soy loco por ti, América : Viagens do Brasil pelo continente latino-americano na obra de Antonio Callado. NEMLA Convention, Boston, March-April The Fantastic, the Gothic and the Grotesque: Expressing Women s Voices in Contemporary Brazilian Novels. 28th Annual Texas Tech University Comparative Symposium. Latin American Women Writers: Canons, Traditions, Revisions. January 1993 The Brazilian Novel of Female Development in the 80's. AATSP Annual Meeting, Phoenix, August Writing and the Constitution of Subjectivity in Latin American Women's Novels. NEMLA Convention, Philadelphia, March History and Psychoanalysis: Writing the Female Subject in Más allá de las máscaras. Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, February
Ferreira-Pinto 6 SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCE PANELS CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED (SELECTED) CHAIR AND ORGANIZER 2005 Feministas Unidas Panel on Female Body/National Identity in Latin American Culture and Literature. Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, February 2003 Brazilian Literature I: Narrative. AATSP Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 2001 American Portuguese Studies Association Session. AATSP Annual Meeting, San Francisco, July 1999 Women in Luso-Brazilian Literature. AATSP Annual Meeting, Denver, August 1998 José Saramago: A Celebration of the Nobel Prize. University of Texas at Austin, October 1997 Clarice Lispector: a Symposium. University of Texas at Austin, October Self and Nation in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Narrative. Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, February-March 1994 Brazil and the Hispanic World: Comparative Readings--Questions of Identity in Culture and Literature. NEMLA Convention, Pittsburgh, April 1993 Brazilian Literature. AATSP Annual Meeting, Phoenix, August 1992 Women Writers of Brazil and Portugal. NEMLA Convention, Buffalo, April ORGANIZER 2002 Brazilian Literature I: Tendências da Ficção Brasileira Atual (three sessions). AATSP Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, July-August Feministas Unidas session: The Essay in Latin America. AATSP Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, July-August Interest session: Sexualities, Textualities: Queer Readings of Brazilian Literature. AATSP Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, July-August 2000 All panels on Brazilian Literature. American Portuguese Studies Association Second International Congress, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 1992 Latin American Poetry and Poetics. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (SELECTED) 2003 Nominated for the Editorial Board (for Brazilian Literature). Revista Iberoamericana 2002 Manuscript reviewer. University of Texas Press 2001-2003 Elected member of the University/Portuguese position, AATSP Executive Council 2000-present Editorial Board (Consejo Editorial). Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 1998-2002 Manuscript reviewer. Luso-Brazilian Review
Ferreira-Pinto 7 1996-1999 Set up the Portuguese Study Abroad Program at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the Brazil Center-ILAS, Univ. of Texas at Austin GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SEMINARS (SELECTED) 2004 College of Liberal Arts Dean s Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity Award, $1,000, Texas State University 1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer, $4,000 Project title: Female Sexuality and Social Power in Writings by Twentieth- Century Brazilian Women; researched and reviewed bibliography for book project 1998 University Cooperative Society Subvention Award, Fall, $2,500 for publication subvention; book title: Urban Voices: Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil UT Faculty Development Program Summer Research Assignment, Summer, $8,519 Project title: Female Sexuality and Social Power in Writings by Twentieth- Century Brazilian Women; wrote scholarly article O desejo lesbiano no conto de escritoras brasileiras contemporâneas, published in Revista Iberoamericana 1997 Undergraduate Course Development, UT - Institute of Latin American Studies, Spring, $1,500 for research assistant to develop course material for new course: POR516, Alternate Second-Year Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 1996 UT - Institute of Latin American Studies Faculty Research Program, Summer, $5,000 Project title: "Urban Voices: The City in the Contemporary Short Story from Brazil;" researched and wrote first version of introduction for the volume Urban Voices: Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil 1990 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Modern Poetry and Poetics in Latin America, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Seminar director: Enrico Mario Santí PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Modern Language Association American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Feministas Unidas REFERENCES Professor David W. Foster, Arizona State University david.foster@asu.edu, (480) 965-3752 Professor Dale Koike, University of Texas at Austin d.koike@mail.utexas.edu, (512) 471-4936 Professor Cathy L. Jrade, Vanderbilt University
cathy.l.jrade@vanderbilt.edu, (615) 322-6919 Professor Peggy Sharpe, Florida State University psharpe@mailer.fsu.edu, (850) 644-3727 Ferreira-Pinto 8