Professor Pedro Schacht Pereira and graduate students Jean Carlos Carniel, Mohamed Gabal, and Yuri Belloube, from The Ohio State University's Studies of the Portuguese-Speaking World program, participated in the 14th International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), held October 22-24, 2026, at Princeton University. The biennial conference brings together leading scholars in Lusophone studies from across the United States and around the world.

Their participation highlighted the SPPO's contributions to the field through research spanning diverse literary traditions, historical periods, and critical perspectives.

Professor Pereira presented his research on Mário Domingues (1899-1977), focusing on one of his rarest novels, O Menino Entre Gigantes (1960), and its representation of resistance in twentieth-century colonial Portugal. His research contributes to the archival recovery and critical reassessment of this long-overlooked Black Portuguese novelist.

Jean Carlos Carniel explored the fantastic dimension of Eça de Queirós's early literary production, focusing on his relatively understudied work O Réu Tadeu (1867) and its place in the development of the celebrated Portuguese author's literary craft.

Mohamed Gabal presented findings from his master's research on Arab-Brazilian poetry between the 1930s and 1960s, examining the lesser-known bilingual literary archive produced by Arab immigrants in Brazil and its significance for understanding diasporic identity and the multilingual dimensions of Brazilian literary history.

Yuri Belloube examined the hydropolitics of displacement in Andréa del Fuego's novel Os Malaquias, exploring the intersections of water, power, and displacement and their broader social and environmental implications in contemporary Brazilian literature.

All four scholars are active members of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Their participation reflects the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of research conducted in The Ohio State's Department of Spanish and Portuguese and its pioneering Studies of the Portuguese-Speaking World program.