LUIZ FERNANDO VALENTE

Professor Valente's teaching and research interests include: 1. Brazilian narrative of the 19th and 20th centuries; 2. the relationship of fiction and history; 3. the construction of national identity and the representation of the nation; 4. comparative literature, particularly the modern historical novel and the literature of the Americas; 5. theory of literature, particularly the narrative; 6. Brazilian poetry since 1945.

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Biography

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Professor Valente was educated in Brazil and the United States. His teaching and research interests include: 1. Brazilian narrative of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special emphasis on José de Alencar, João Guimarães Rosa, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Euclides da Cunha, and Lima Barreto; 2. the relationship of fiction and history; 3. the construction of national identity and the representation of the nation; 4. comparative literature, particularly the modern historical novel and the literature of the Americas; 5. theory of literature, particularly the narrative; 6. Brazilian Poetry since 1945. Professor Valente is co-founder and Associate Editor of Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature, Consulting Editor for Latin American Literature of The Explicator, and on the editorial boards of Luso-Brazilian Review and Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura. Active in a variety of professional and scholarly organizations, Professor Valente is a former President of the Northeastern Association of Brazilianists, has served on the Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association and the Division of Luso-Brazilian Literature of the MLA, and is the current Vice-President of the American Portuguese Studies Association. In the summers of 1988 and 1993 he was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Professor Valente is currently Chair of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.


Some recent publications: "Os Sertões: entre a memória e a história," "Literatura, globalização e a 'constelação pós-nacional,'" "Literatura e sociedade: uma volta nova no velho parafuso," "'Nós outros, neo-ibéricos': o entre-lugar da identidade nacional no
pensamento de Manoel Bomfim," "O romance brasileiro de revisitação colonial: o caso de Luiz Antônio de Assis Brasil," "Liminaridade e mediação em 'Campo Geral'"


Courses offered:

* The Brazilian Puzzle: Confronting the Post-Colonial Legacy
* Que país é este?: Twentieth-Century Definitions of Brazil and Brazilianness
* Fiction and History
* The Literature of the Americas
* Tales of the Sertão
* Nation and Narration
* Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Poetry
* José de Alencar and the Alencar Tradition

Curricum Vitae

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LUIZ FERNANDO VALENTE, A.B. (Bowdoin College), Ph.D. (Brown University)
Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Comparative Literature
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Comparative Literature
Phone: +1 401 863 1830
Phone 2: +1 401 863 3042
E-mail: Luiz_Valente@brown.edu

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