Portuguese Faculty
The Portuguese Program at Ohio State draws on a diverse faculty base that shares an enthusiasm for scholarly work that explores connections among the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Portuguese- Galician-, and Spanish-speaking worlds.
Core Faculty
Literatures and Cultures
Luso-Brazilian Language, Literatures and Cultures. Colonial Literatures and Cultures.
Brazilian and Spanish American Film and Colonial Literature. Comparative Studies of Latin American Literature and Culture. Historiography.
Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures. Iberian literary relations.
Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires; Colonial, Transatlantic, Transnational and Hemispheric American Studies.
Linguistics
Morphology and Phonology of Portuguese, Latin, and Romance.
Sociolinguistics. Discourse Analysis. Pragmatics.
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Sandra S.F. Erickson (March 2008- March 2009; Brazilian and Comparative Literature; Professor Adjunto IV, Departamento de Letras, UFRN); Clara Maria Abreu Rowland (Summer 2008; Comparative Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon); Cristiano Cezar Gomes da Silva (Autumn 2008; Brazilian literature, culture, and history; Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes, UFPB).Associated Faculty
Hispanic Linguistics:
Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish and Galician phonology and dialectology, Spanish and Ibero-Romance historical phonology.
Phonology. Dialectology. Materials for Teaching Hispanic Linguistics.
Historical (morpho)syntax. Comparative Romance linguistics.
Peninsular Literatures and Cultures:
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Prose, Poetry, and Theater. Populal Literature and Culture.
Twentieth-Century Literature. Peripheral Nationalisms. Galician Culture. Emigration, Immigration, and Exile.
Latin American Literatures and Cultures:
Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture. Latino/a Literatures in the U.S. Semiotics.
Latin American Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies: Film, Literature, and History.
Caribbean Literature. Women's Studies. Narrative and Poetry. Subaltern Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature. Río de la Plata Literatures and Cultures. Popular Culture and Cultural Studies. Film.
History:
Brazilian History and Cultural Studies.
