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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
- Interior space and interiority in realist fiction
- Lisbon earthquake of 1755
Publications
Book
- Interiors and Narrative: The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas. Lanham, MD: Bucknell University Press, 2013.
Selected Articles
- “Politics and the Aesthetics of Absence in Margarida Cardoso’s Cinematic Work.” Hispanic Research Journal 14.1 (Feb. 2013): 67-85.
- “Discovery as Mediation: Luís de Camões’s Account of the Portuguese’s Arrival in India.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 21/22 (2012): 369-382.
- “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.
Teaching
- Contemporary Portuguese Literature
- Poetry in Portuguese: Love and War
- Spain: The Cultural Context
- Introduction to Hispanic Literature
- Portugal: The Cultural Context
- Heroines of Hispanic Drama
- Luís de Camões and 16th-Century Portugal
- City and Country: 18th- and 19th-Century Portuguese Literature
- Several Selves, Numerous Nations: 20th-century Portuguese Literature
Current Research Projects
- Crisis and Modernity: A Portuguese Cultural History
- "Female Figures in Fernando Pessoa"
- "Interiors, Women, and Narrators: Machado de Assis's ‘Missa do galo’"
