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President
Peggy Sharpe
Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics
Florida State University
Peggy Sharpe is Professor of Portuguese at Florida State University where she teaches courses on Brazilian language, culture, literature and film. Her scholarly publications include Espelho na rua: A cidade na ficção de Eça de Queirós (1992), the edited volume Entre resistir e identificar-se: Para uma teoria da prática da narrativa brasileira de autoria feminina (1997) and the translation of Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira’s In Praise of Difference: The Emergence of a Global Feminism (1998). She has also published numerous critical editions and scholarly articles on the subject of Brazilian women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The recipient of two Fulbright awards to Brazil, Sharpe has taught and conducted research at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and Universidade Federal do Maranhão. She has also held elected positions in the Modern Language Association, the American Portuguese Studies Association and American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Vice President
Randal Johnson
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Los Angeles
Immediate Past President
Kenneth P. Serbin
Department of History
University of San Diego
His research focuses on the history of the Catholic Church and social and reproductive issues and the relationship between religion and democracy in Brazil. In 2006 Serbin published Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil’s Clergy and Seminaries (University of Notre Dame Press). His book Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil was published in the Latin America Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press (2000). The Portuguese edition, issued by Companhia das Letras, won the 2003 Book Prize of the Brazil Section of LASA.
Executive Director
Marshall C. Eakin
Department of History
Vanderbilt University
His research focuses on the history of industrialization and nation-building, and his publications include British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 (Duke, 1989), Brazil: The Once and Future Country (St. Martin's, 1997) and Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Palgrave, 2001). His latest book is The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Secretary
Cecilia Grespan Vanderbilt University
“Nasci e cresci na região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Estudei na PUC de Curitiba, onde me formei em 1984. Vivo em Nashville desde 1989.”
Cristina Pinto Bailey
Editor and Translator
Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey was born in Rio de Janeiro, and has a Ph.D. from Tulane University in Spanish and Portuguese. She has published extensively in journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Brasil/Brazil, Hispania, and Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, among others. Recent publications include: “Tales of Two Cities: The Space of the Feminine in Sonia Coutinho’s Fiction ” ( Hispanic Issues Online, 2008); Clarice Lispector. Novos aportes críticos (co-edited with Regina Zilberman; 2007); “‘Compulsory’ Whiteness and Female Identity: Race and Gender in Contemporary Brazilian Women’s Writings” ( Letras femeninas, 2006); and Gender, Discourse and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature (2004). Her translation of Ignacio de Loyola Brandão's novel Teeth under the Sun ( Dentes ao sol, 1976) was published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. She currently teaches in the Department of Romance Languages at Washington and Lee University.
http://www.rebra.org/escritora/escritora_ptbr.php?assunto=biografia&id=1203
Maria José Somerlate Barbosa
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Iowa
Maria José Somerlate Barbosa (Ph.D UNC, 1990) is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Her book-length publications are: Clarice Lispector: Spinning the Webs of Passion (1996), Clarice Lispector: Mutações Faiscantes/Sparkling Mutations (1997), and Des/fiando as Teias da Paixão (2001). She is the contributing editor of Passo e Compasso: Nos Ritmos do Envelhecer (2003). Her current research focuses on Afro-Brazilian literature, gender and culture. She has served as an elected member at the following associations: Modern Language Association (Luso-Brazilian subdivision) and the American Portuguese Studies (Vice-President and President).
Peter Beattie
Department of History
Michigan State University
Peter M. Beattie, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, is the author of The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation 1864-1945, contributing editor of The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil, and editor for history and social science of the Luso-Brazilian Review. He is currently working on a book manuscript on Brazilian penal justice in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Judy Bieber
Department of History
University of New Mexico
Kathryn Hochstetler
Balsillie School of International Affairs and
Department of Political Science
University of Waterloo
Her research has focused on civil society in Brazil, Mercosul, and the United Nations. She also has publised widely on Brazilian environmental politics. Her book, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (co-authored with Margaret Keck), will be published in 2007 by Duke University Press. She has also co-authored Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN Conferences (SUNY 2005).
Jan Hoffman French
Department of Anthropology
University of Richmond
(Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Duke University; J.D. University of Connecticut School of Law) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame, Northwestern University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. French has published articles in American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, The Americas, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Her book, Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Northeastern Brazil will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Spring 2009. Before becoming an anthropologist, French practiced law.
Elizabeth Kiddy
Department of History & Johnson Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Albright College
My recent work has examined the history of the African Diaspora in Brazil, primarily in Minas Gerais, and has been published in articles, chapters, and a book, Blacks of the Rosary, Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil. My new project focuses on the environmental history of the São Francisco River.
Maxine Margolis Department of Anthropology University of Florida "For the last decade I have been engaged in research and writing about Brazilian emigration to the United States, an area of on-going interest. "
Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Dean of Academic Affairs
New England Institute of Art
A political scientist, Dr. Maybury-Lewis has studied and written on rural social movements in Brazil since the late 1970s. In recent years, he has concentrated on riverine peoples, rubber tappers, agricultural workers, and indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon: in the region around Belém, Pará, in the central Amazon between Manaus and Tefé, and in the state of Acre. He has also focused on both urban and rural human rights questions.
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