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Estela Vieira | Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Ballantine Hall 867
TEL: 855-6143
Email: evieira
Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
M.A., University of Virginia, 2001
B.A., University of Virginia, 1997
Specializations
- Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures
- Lisbon earthquake of 1755 in culture and literature
- Luso-Hispanic comparative approaches to literature
Selected Publications
- “Discovery as Mediation: Luís de Camões’s Account of the Portuguese’s Arrival in India.”
Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (forthcoming). - “Álvaro de Campos's Ultimatum: An Old Recipe for a New Portuguese Poetics.” Luso-Brazilian
Review 47.2 (Fall 2010): 120-134. - “The Aquatic Unconscious: Water Imagery in Eça de Queirós’s A Cidade e as Serras.”
Portuguese Studies 26.2 (2010): 168-182. - "A lição da leitura: memória e emoção em A Morgadinha dos Canaviais.” Actas 20: Filologia,
Memória e Esquecimento. Orgs. Fernanda Mota Alves, Sofia Tavares, Ricardo Gil
Soeiro, Daniela Di Pasquale. Ribeirão: Húmus, 2010. 481-492. - “‘Saudade’ and ‘Soledad:’ Fernando Pessoa and Antonio Machado on Nostalgia and
Loneliness.” Romance Notes 48.1 (Fall 2007): 125-133. - “The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the Portuguese Literary Imagination.” ellipsis: Journal of
the American Portuguese Studies Association 5 (2007): 113-129. - "Milton Hatoum e a representação do exótico e do imigrante." Arquitetura da memória: ensaios sobre os romances Dois Irmãos, Relato de um Certo Oriente e Cinzas do Norte de Milton Hatoum. Ed. Maria da Luz Pinheiro de Cristo. Manaus: Universidade Federal Amazonas, 2007. 171-179.
- "Escrever depois de uma catástrofe: o terramoto de 1755 e a literatura portuguesa." O Grande Terramoto de Lisboa. Ficar Diferente. Eds. Helena Carvalhão Buescu and Gonçalo Cordeiro. Lisboa: Gradiva, 2005. 265-282.
- "Coping and creating after catastrophe: the significance of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 on the literary culture of Portugal." The Lisbon earthquake of 1755: Representations and reactions. Eds. Theodore E. D. Braun and John B. Radner. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005. 282-297.
- "La función del silencio en La Virgen de los Sicarios de Fernando Vallejo, Canon perpetuo de Mario Bellatin y Cárcel de árboles de Rodrigo Rey Rosa." AlterTexto 2 (septiembre-diciembre 2003): 45-60.
- "Writing the present, rewriting the plague, José Saramago´s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira and Mario Bellatin´s Salón de belleza.¨ CiberLetras 7 (July 2002).
Current Research Projects
- Interior space and interiority in realist fiction
- Dead narrators and death in literature
