Richard
A. Gordon, Assistant Professor Literatures & Cultures of Latin America, Portuguese
Education
Ph.D.Brown University, 2002
M.A.Brown University, 2000
M.A.University of California, Riverside, 1994
B.A.University of California, Riverside, 1992
Faculty Appointments
The Ohio State University (2005-present)
Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish
Associated Faculty, Film Studies & Comparative Studies
Southern Methodist University (2002-2005)
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Publications and Current Research
Book Manuscript
"Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil" West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2009.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
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"Dramatizing Portuguese Imperial Dominance in Novo entremez Os Malaquecos, Ou Os costumes brazileiros" Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 33.1 (Spring 2010): (forthcoming).
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"The Slave as National Symbol in Cuban and Brazilian Cinema: Representing Resistance and Promoting National Unity in La última cena and Chico Rei." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 15.3 (Dec. 2006): 301-320.
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"Following Estevanico: The Influential Presence of an African Slave in Sixteenth-Century New World Historiography." Colonial Latin American Review 15.2 (Dec. 2006): 183-206.
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"Sexual Transgression and Models of Reception in Paloma Pedrero's La llamada de Lauren." Letras peninsulares 17.3 (Winter 2005 [issued Fall 2006]): 549-557.
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"Allegories of Resistance and Reception in Xica da Silva." Luso-Brazilian Review 42.1 (2005): 44-60.
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"Recreating Caminha: The Earnest Adaptation of Brazil's Letter of Discovery in Humberto Mauro's Descobrimento do Brasil (1937)." MLN Hispanic Issue 120.2 (Mar. 2005): 408-436.
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"The Domestication of the Ensign Nun: La monja alférez (1944) and Mexican Identity." Hispania 87.4 (Dec. 2004): 675-681.
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"The Disalignment of Bernini's Columns: Historiographic Variations in El arpa y la sombra." Romance Notes XLIV.2 (Winter 2003): 173-181.
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"Exoticism and National Identity in Cabeza de Vaca and Como era gostoso o meu francês." Torre de Papel X.1 (Spring 2000): 77-119.
Book Chapters
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"Confessing Sodomy, Accusing a Master: The Lisbon Trial of Pernabmuco's Luiz da Costa, 1743." Afro-Latino Voices: Documentary Narratives from the Early-Modern Ibero-Atlantic World. Eds. Kathryn J. McKnight and Leo Garofalo (forthcoming with Hacket Publishing Company, Inc.).
- “‘Por servir à república destas Minas’: Epistemología popular en dos manuales médicos brasileños del siglo dieciocho.” Desplazamientos y disyunciones: Nuevos itinerarios de los estudios coloniales Ed. Stephanie Kirk. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (forthcoming); Eds. Ileana Rodríguez and Josebe Martínez. Estudios Transatlanticos Postcoloniales. Barcelona: Anthropos (forthcoming).
Book Reviews
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Book Review of: Lúcia Nagib, ed. The New Brazilian Cinema, in Luso-Brazilian Review 43.1 (July 2006): 139-141.
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Book Review of: Hozven, Roberto. Octavio Paz: Viajero del Presente, in Taller de Letras: Revista del Instituto de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 24 (1996): 188-190.
Interview
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Interview: "Las fauces, el consumo y el vacío. Entrevista a José E. Santos" Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura/International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature 8 (Fall 2007): 104-123.
Research Projects
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"Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil": This book examines the processes by which filmmakers in both Brazil and Mexico—the countries which have most often produced cinema about the colonial period—appropriate and transform colonial writing into a vehicle for intervening on conceptions of national identity. Grounding his approach to cinematic adaptation in how the practice of anthropophagy among the Tupinambá in Brazil, for example, has been recast in modern times as a post-colonial cultural strategy, he explores how each filmmaker "devours" and "digests" a colonized past and incorporates the modified version into the present-day body of the nation.
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“Historical Cinema and National Identity: Representing and Modeling Self-Identification in Brazilian Slavery Films.” Filmmakers in Brazil have long recognized the central role of slavery in the development of national identity, and have retold stories of slavery either to confirm or to revise prevailing concepts. This book investigates how these cinematic productions use a return to the slaveholding past to reinforce or, alternatively, question ways of understanding identity in 20th and 21st-century Brazil.
