Research interests

Main area of interest: 19th and 20th Centuries Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures (Poetry and Fiction).

Secondary areas: Cuban Literature; Spanish Literature; Anglo-American Literature; Textual Criticism and Medieval Portuguese Poetry; Applied Linguistics and Multimedia Learning.

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 - Present.

Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures – Luso-Brazilian Literatures (in progress)

“Faculdade de Letras”, University of Porto (Portugal), 2001 - 2003.

M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature. Dissertation: Campo de Relâmpagos – Leituras do Excesso na Poesia de Luís Miguel Nava. Advisor: Rosa Maria Martelo.

“Faculdade de Letras”, University of Porto (Portugal), 1994 - 1999.

   B.A. (“Licenciatura”), Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese and English, Emphasis in Education.

Publications

Book

Campo de Relâmpagos – Leituras do Excesso na Poesia de Luís Miguel Nava. Lisboa: Assírio e Alvim, 2009.

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3. Luís Miguel Nava was born is Viseu in 1957 and died in Brussels in 1995.  His poetry, published essentially between 1979 and 1994, is amongst the most original of his time and contains features which are highly innovative in the Portuguese lyrical tradition.  Campo de Relâmpagos – Leituras do Excesso na Poesia de Luís Miguel Nava is the first book dedicated to the works of this poet.  It studies Luís Miguel Nava’s understanding of poetry as an experience of excess, and his position in Portuguese contemporary literature.  It analyzes Nava’s use of metaphor, allegory, simile and catachresis as his main poetic strategies.  Campo de Relâmpagos also focuses on the strong influence of Francis Bacon’s paintings in Nava's poetic discourse, and discusses its evolution from an open homoeroticism to a visceral representation of the body, unique among Portuguese lyrical tradition.  This publication was sponsored by the Direcção-Geral do Livro e da Biblioteca, an organism of the Portuguese Ministério da Cultura.
   

Book Chapter

1. “Como Vingar-se de Antologias (segundo Jorge de Sena)”. Lourenço, Jorge Fazenda e Francisco Cota Fagundes, eds. Jorge de Sena: Novas Perspectivas, 30 Anos Depois. Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora, 2009: 199 - 248.
   

Journal Articles and Review-Essays

Review-essay of Cancioneiros Medievais Galego-Portugueses (Gladis Massigni-Cagliari. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2007). Accepted for publication by Revue critique de philologie romane, Zurich (2008). (forthcoming)

Review-essay of Centro Virtual Camões – Aprender Português (Instituto Camões). Language Learning and Technology 12.3 (2008): 14 - 22.

“Viajar Imenso, com Bernardo Soares”. Encruzilhadas (UCLA) 7 (2007): 175 - 80.

“Fixar o Olhar”. Relâmpago (Lisbon) 16 (2005): 63 - 76.

“A Metáfora, a Alegoria e o Desenvolvimento Cognitivo da Criança”, Itinerários (Odivelas, Portugal) 10 (2004): 27 - 31.

“Da Luz aos Ofícios em jorge melícias – a propósito de O Dom Circunscrito”. Apeadeiro – Revista de Atitudes Literárias (Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal) 3 (2003): 123 - 131.

Assistant Editor to

1. Gomes, Manuel Teixeira. Singular People. Ed. João Camilo dos Santos. Santa Barbara, UCSB - Center for Portuguese Studies, 2010.
   

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3. Queirós. Eça de. Three Short Stories by Eça de Queirós. Ed. João Camilo dos Santos. UCSB - Center for Portuguese Studies, Santa Barbara, 2008.
   

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5. Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, vols. VI, IX and X. Santa Barbara: UCSB - Center for Portuguese Studies.
   

Professional experience

Teaching experience

University

University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall 2005 - Fall 2009)

Courses taught: Portuguese language classes (Levels 1 - 6, and Portuguese for Spanish Speakers A, B); Port. 183 (Short-stories of the Portuguese-speaking World); Spanish 1.

Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas, Felgueiras (Portugal, 2001 - 2005)

Courses taught: Literature for Children; English; Teaching Methodology (English); Teaching Methodology (Portuguese); Supervision of Teacher Training (English and Portuguese) in middle schools of the districts of Porto and Braga; direction of research thesis on Methodology of Teaching.

Other Levels

1. Private and public high schools. Courses taught: Portuguese, English, and Translation Techniques (Portugal, 1999 - 2005).
   

Other professional experiences

Collaboration with the Portuguese publishers Asa, Campo das Letras, Cadernos do Caos, and Quasi, as translator, proofreader, and copywriter.

Literary participation in the Portuguese magazines Apeadeiro (Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal) and Cadernos do Caos (Porto, Portugal).

Contact

University of California Santa Barbara

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

3210 Phelps Hall

Santa Barbara CA 93106-4150

ricardo_vasconcelos@umail.ucsb.edu