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Estela Vieira | Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Ballantine Hall 875
TEL: 855-8907
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
- "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.
- "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
