Ana Paula Ferreira

apferrei@umn.edu

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Luso-Brazilian Literatures, New York University, 1989 - none
M.A. : Hispanic Literatures, New York University, 1982 -

Specialties

Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
"Race" and Race Relations in the Global Spanish and Portuguese-speaking South
Women, Feminisms and Late Empire

Publications

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Publications

Ferreira, Ana Paula, Petar Petrov et al. "Maria Isabel Barreno e a Subversão do Senso Comum do Género." Avanços em Literatura e Cultura Portuguesas. Século XX. (2012): Vol. II. 199-208.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "“Woman“ and the Time of Nation in Garrett’s Travels: Take Two." Garrett’s Travels Revisited. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 21-22 (2011): 189-210.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "A Contas com a Coisa na “˜Praça de Londres’: Lídia Jorge e a Húbris da Representação ." A Cultura Portuguesa no Divã (2011): 183-196.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Lídia Jorge's Combateremos a Sombra': Psychoanalysis, Tragedy, and Ethics." Journal of Romance Studies 11 (2011 ): 9-26.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Lusotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis." Gender, Empire and Postcolony Eds. Anna Klobucka and Hilary Owen (2014 ): 49-68.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Interracial Intimacy as Site of Colonial Revisioning: Lídia Jorge's O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas." Reading Literature in Portuguese: Commentaries in Honor of Tom Earle Eds. Cláudia Pazos-Alonso and Stephen Parkinson (2013): 231-38.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Contesting Miscegenation and Lusotropicalism: Women and the Portuguese Colonial Order." Journeys: Postcolonial Trajectories and Representations Eds. Joana Passos et al (2012): 101-120.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "The Portuguese Translation of Oyono's Une vie de boy: José Saramago's Postcolonial Intervention." PMLA 128 (2013): 119-26.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Caliban's Travels." The Lusotropical Tempest: Postcolonial Debates in Portuguese. Lusophone Studies (2012): 30-42.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "The Colonial Form in the Postcolonial Portuguese Metropolis." Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe (2010): 274-91.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Tradução e utopia pós-colonial: a intervenção invisível de Saramago." O que transforma o mundo é a necessidade e não a utopia': Estudos sobre utopia e ficção em José Saramago. Ed. Burghard Baltrusch. Berlin: Frank and Timme, 2014. 73-93
Amaral, Ana Luísa; Ferreira, Ana Paula; Freitas, Marilena, Eds. New Portuguese Letters to the World: International Reception. Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2015.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Articulações para um pós-colonialismo em calão do Sul Global." In Geometrias da memória: configurações pós-coloniais. Eds. António Sousa Ribeiro and Margarida Calafate Ribeiro. Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2016. 145-165.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. “Feminisms in Postdictatorial Portugal, 1972-1996." In New Iberian Feminisms. Eds. Roberta Johnson and Silvia Bermúdez. Toronto University Press, 2018. 312-316.
Ferreira, Ana Paula; Bermúdez, Silvia; Rodal, Asunción Bernardez. “Historical Overview.” Chapter 31, Part VI. Iberian Feminisms’ Diversity (1996 to Present). New Iberian Feminisms. 345-358
Ferreira, Ana Paula. “Saramago’s Axiology of Gender Difference.” Saramago's Philosophical Heritage, Eds. Carlo Salzani and Kristof Vanhoutte, Palgrave McMillan, 2018. 163-191.
Ferreira, Ana Paula; Arenas, Fernando. "Russell Hamilton: Pioneering Critic of African Literatures in Portuguese." Journal of Lusophone Studies, Volume 1.2 (2016). Available at http://jls.apsa.us.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. Women Writing Portuguese Late Colonialism . Liverpool University Press , 2020.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Alegorias de comunidade e democracia." Colóquio Letras 205 (2020): 55-66.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Keynote: "Made in Brazil: A razão anti-colonial da Lusofonia." International Symposium on Lusophony. Gent University, Belgium. March 6, 2020 -
President: American Portuguese Studies Association. 2014 - 2016
Escrever Depois da Guerra Civil: Agualusa e o Comércio da Memória: Keynote, International Association of African Literary and Cultural Studies, Univ. Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil. 8 Nov 2013 -
Veering South: Towards a Cosmopolitan Subaltern Iberian Studies: Keynote, Towards Iberian Studies Symposium, Ohio State University. 11 April 2013 -
Maria Lamas e as 'Mulheres Portuguesas' , 1923-1950: Invited Talk, Novas Cartas Portuguesas Colloquium, Sorbonne Nouvelle. 23 Nov 2012 -
Chair : Executive Committee of the Discussion Group on Lusophone Literatures Outside of Portugal and Brazil, MLA. 2013 - 2014

Courses

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Courses

Film in Brazil and Lusophone Africa (undergraduate)
Portuguese Literature and Culture (graduate core course)
Postcolonial Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures (graduate and undergraduate)
Women and Representation in Post/Colonial Portuguese (graduate seminar)
Brazilian Literature and Culture (graduate core course)
'Race' and Racisms in Portuguese (graduate seminar)
'Race' and Miscegenation in Brazil and Mexico (undergraduate)
Women and Dictatorships (undergraduate/graduate)
"Race" and Coloniality in the (Other) Global South (graduate)