Education:
· Ph. D., Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
· M.A., French Literature/Language, University of Toronto
· M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
· B.A. Honours., (Major in Literatures in French and Minor in Literatures in Portuguese), University of Toronto
· B.S.W., Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
Teaching and Research Interests
· Representations of Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity in Literature and Poetry
· Colonial and Postcolonial Writing (with special interest in Africa, Caribbean and the Americas)
· World/Comparative Literatures
· Creative Writing
· Aesthetics as Resistance and Cultural Affirmation/Links Between “Ethics” and “Aesthetics”
· Literatures in Portuguese (Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Portugal, etc.)
· Colonial Nostalgias and Psychoanalysis: Personal “Lack”, Utopia and Racialized Constructs
· Nationhood, Identity, Hybridism, Essentialism and Plurality Ethics in African Post-colonial Contexts
Courses Taught or Being Taught at Toronto Metropolitan University
· ENG 710: Special Topics in Canadian Literature
· ENG 223: Literatures of Exile and Migration
· ENG 505: Creative Writing
· ENG 560: Poetry and Poetics
· ENG 110: Literatures Across Borders
· CENG 212: Literatures in Crisis
· CENG 104: The Short Story
· CENG 621: Women’s Texts, Global Contexts
· CENG 200: Writing as a Cultural Act
· CSSH 205: Academic Writing and Research
Courses Taught at Other Institutions
University of Toronto
Department of English
ENG 270Y: Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
African Studies Program
NEW 150Y: Introduction to African Studies
NEW 450Y: Advanced Topics in African Studies
NEW 322H1: The Contemporary African Novel
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
PRT358H1-S: Topics in Portuguese Studies: Literatures and Cultures of Lusophone Africa - Aesthetics, Politics and Identities
PRT458H1-S: The Lusophone Short Story
PRT 110Y: Elementary Portuguese
PRT 310Y: Written and Oral Composition III
York University
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
DLLL 1000: World Literatures in Perspective
POR 3660: Readings in Mozambican Literature – Retelling History through Fiction
POR 2600: Portuguese Studies
POR 1000: Introduction to Portuguese
OCADU University
Faculty of Liberal Studies
ENGL/Translation 4B02: Topics in World Literatures
ENGL 2B02: Introduction to Literary Criticism
LBST 1B13: The Essay and the Argument, Rhetoric
LBST 1D01: Liberal Studies One/Sex, War, Time, Space
LBST 1D01: Liberal Studies One/Crossing Cultures, Blurring Boundaries
Academic Publications (Books)
Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender and Cultural Identity. Lafayette: Purdue University Press, Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, 2011.
The Works of Chin Ce: Critical Supplement (A)1 (Editor). Nigeria: Handel Books, 2008.
Selected Academic Articles/Book Chapters
“Perspectives on the Life and Work of Mia Couto." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Reclaiming Black Sovereignty: Conscientization, Negritude and Pan-Africanism in the Poetry of Noémia de Sousa”. Portuguese Studies Review. Article. Forthcoming.
The Case for Literary Extroversion and Consciousness Expansion in Canadian Literature: Literary Writing, Identity and Belonging Beyond the Anglo-Saxon Ethic and Aesthetic”. Interdisciplinary Reconstructions of Canadian Identity: Towards Diversity and Inclusion. Book chapter. University of Manitoba Press. Forthcoming.
“Female Resistance and Engagement: Combating Intersecting Powers of Colonialisms and Patriarchies in Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes.” The Worlds of Mia Couto. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 99-126.
“Symbolical Recreations of “Wholeness”: Memory, Mourning, Nostalgia and Counter-Nostalgia of the Colonial in Karen Blixen and Isabela Figueiredo.” Portuguese Studies Review, Volume 27 (1), 2019. 135-176.
“Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein).” African Studies. Volume 27, 2018 – Issue 1. 127-144.
“Debunking Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Essentialisms: Miscegenation/s and the Call toward Global and Cosmic Citizenship in Mia Couto’s The Other Foot of The Mermaid.” African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue, Eds Yaw Agawu-Kakraba and Komla Aggor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2018. 27-58.
“Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons.” InterDISCIPLINARY: Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies. Volume 5, 2017. 59-90.
“Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices.” A Companion to Mia Couto. Eds Grant Hamilton and David Huddart. Suffolk: James Currey: 2016. 64-85.
“The Way/s of ‘Poetry’: The Contracting and Expanding Self in the Writing of Mia Couto.” JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association. Volume 9, No. 2 Summer/Fall 2015. 75-111.
Fiction (Books)
Daria (Novel). Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2021.
Uma Casa no Mundo (Novel). Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2021.
My House is a Mansion (Novel). Toronto: Leaping Lion Books/York University, 2015.
Habitando na metáfora do tempo: crónicas desejadas (Short Stories). Mamede de Infesta: Edium Editores, 2009.
Poetry (Books)
The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet. Toronto: Mawenzi House. Forthcoming (2024).
The Circular Incantation: An Exercise in Loss and Findings (Prose Poetry). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2013.
The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit (Prose Poetry). Toronto: Mawenzi House (Formerly Tsar Books), 2012.
Wearing Glasses of Water (Poetry). Toronto: Mawenzi House (Formerly Tsar Books), 2007.
Selected Miscellaneous Publications
Creative Non-Fiction
“My Mother and I.” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies, Brown University, Spring 2021. Brown Digital Repository | Item | bdr:qvyxzueh (external link)
“Diatribe of a Mute Eve.” St. Petersburg Review/Springhouse Journal: Women Writing the Lusophone World, Issue No. 6, Fall 2019. Translated from the Portuguese by the author (with added sections). Originally published in Letras & Letras, 2013. https://www.springhousejournal.com/Issue6/ (external link)
“Diatribe de uma Eva muda (em tempos de hoje).” Letras & Letras, Universidade do Minho (Portugal), Fall 2013.
Poetry
“The Evening Country”, “She Moves” and “My Self.” Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme. Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Women in Leadership Positions. Vol. 36, Number 1, 2, Spring 2023. Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. /York University.
“Churches, cathedrals and us”, “My toenails”, “There are no words” and “I do not speak.” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese American Letters and Studies, Brown University, Fall 2020. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1148132/?fbclid=IwAR0xgwWZH0e89c2AKmHbWYV1GfGsH__jJVU87-9u2GSu0SB865bnR_lxMps (external link) . 197-200.
“Amarília e a vida”, “A origem das coisas”, “Cave serena”, “A melodia de Deus, ou Deolinda” and “A manhã dos voadores.” Poetas lusófonos na diáspora - Antologia - III Volume. Oxalá Editora, Europress: Dortmund/Germany, 2020.
“Small Words”, “The Kitchen”, “Notions of God”, “The Gemini in Me” and “I Sit Here”. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 2019.
Short Fiction
“As eternas cartas de Núria Maria (ou um tratado de espera).” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese American Letters and Studies, Brown University, Spring 2021.
“Diários de uma menina-moça (que emigrou).” Correr Mundo: Dez mulheres, dez histórias de emigração. Dortmund/Germany: Oxalá Editora, 2020.
Literary Prizes
Prémio Imprensa Nacional Ferreira de Castro, 2019 (Portugal) for the Portuguese-language novel Uma Casa no Mundo.