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Curriculum Vitae (short version)
Cacilda M. Rêgo
Education
1997
Ph.D. Latin American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Fields of specialization: Cultural Studies and Media Studies
Special research emphasis: Latin American popular culture;
Brazilian film and television
1986
M.A. Latin American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Field of specialization: International Communication
1978
B.A. Tourism/Business Administration
Universidade Católica de Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Academic Positions
2016 2009-Present
2006-2009
2001-2006
2000-2001
1997-2000
1991-1996
Professor, Utah State University
Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies
Associate Professor, Utah State University
Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies
Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Department of Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies
Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Core Faculty Member, Center of Latin American Studies (CLAS)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radio-Television-Film
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Continuing Education – University Extension
Program/Evening Classes Division
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Visiting Academic Appointment
2011
Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”/UNESP-Bauru, São
Paulo, Brazil (Graduate Seminar ‘Comunicação & Tecnologias Digitais’), FAACFaculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação/Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Televisão Digital, August 8-12).
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Administrative Positions
2011-2013
2006-Present
Associate Department Head
Portuguese Section Coordinator
Scholarly Publications
Books
2014
Migration in Lusophone Cinema.
Ed. Cacilda Rêgo and Marcus Brasileiro.
Palgrave MacMillan: Hampshire (UK) and New York (US). 256 pp.
ISBN 9781137408914
Reviewed in:
• InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, Volume 4,
Number 1, Fall 2015, pp. 165-168, by Eva Paulino Bueno, St. Mary’s
University.
• Imagofagia. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios y Cine y
Audiovisual, Number 13, April 2016, by Naomi Wood, Colorado College.
2011
New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema.
Ed. Cacilda Rêgo and Carolina Rocha.
Intellect: Bristol (UK) and Chicago (US). 274 pp.
ISBN 978-1-84150-375-2
Reviewed in:
*Luso-Brazilian Review, Volume 52, Number 1, 2015, pp. 152-154, by Antônio
Márcio da Silva, University of Kent.
*Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Volume 31, 2013, pp. 184-186, by
Traci Roberts-Camps, U of the Pacific.
*Chasqui-Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, Volume 42, Number 1, May
2013, pp. 190-193, by Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott College.
*Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2013, p. 204, by
Gabriela Copertari, Case Western Reserve University.
*Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 121122, by Joanna Page, University of Cambridge.
*Hispania, Volume 95, Number 1, March 2012, pp. 176-177, by Aileen El-Kadi,
U of Texas-El Paso.
*Spectator, Volume 32, Issue 2, Fall 2012, pp. 60-62, by Cristiani Bilhalva, U of
Southern California.
*Film International, Volume 9, Issue 6, December 2011, pp. 82-83, by Gary M.
Kramer.
*Imagofagia. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios y Cine y
Audiovisual, Number 4, October 2011, by Carla Manzoni, U of Minnesota.
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Journal Articles
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2012
2011
2009
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Under the Spell of Populism: Popular Culture and Intellectuals in Brazil. Studies
in Latin American Popular Culture 33: 164-178.
Elementos essenciais para a construção do roteiro na TV Digital Interativa (with
Eliane T. Gushiken, Flávia E. R. Galdiole, Regina H. M. Zolezi). Revista
Temática (October Issue), Ano VIII, No. 10, ISSN 1807-8931,
http://www.insite.pro.br/2012/outubro/elementos_roteiro_tvdigital.pdf
Brazilian Cinema since 1990. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue
83, Vol. 44, No. 2: 204-211.
Beyond Globo: The History and Development of Brazilian Television. Journal of
International Communication 15 (1): 37-55.
Rede Globo: A TV que virou estrela de cinema. Studies in Latin American
Popular Culture 27: 182-190.
Brazilian Cinema: Its fall, rise and renew (1990-2003). New Cinemas:
Journal of Contemporary Film 3: 85-100.
Novelas, Novelinhas, Novelões: The Evolution of the (Tele)Novela in Brazil.
Global Media Journal (Spring Issue) 2 (2),
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca.gmj/sp03/gmj-sp03-rego.htm
Era uma vez… a Rede Globo de Televisão. Studies in Latin American
Popular Culture 22: 165-180.
The centrality of telenovelas in Latin America’s everyday life: past tendencies,
current knowledge, and future research (with A. La Pastina and J.
Straubhaar). Global Media Journal (Spring Issue) 2 (2),
http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca.gmj/sp03/gmj-sp03-rego.htm
Photonovels in Latin America: just a tool for social conformity? Or Cultural
Practices/Critical Theories: discursive repertoires, strategies, and
competencies. Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciência da Comunicação (São
Paulo): 96-111.
Cinema Novo and The Question of the Popular. Studies in Latin
American Popular Culture 10: 57-73.
The 'Brazilianization' of Brazilian Television: A Critical Review.
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 7: 41-57.
Book Chapters
2014
2014
2013
2011
2011
Introduction. Cacilda Rêgo and Marcus Brasileiro, Migration in Lusophone
Cinema (Cacilda Rêgo and Marcus Brasileiro, eds.), Hampshire/New York:
Palgrave.
Centering the Margins: The Modern Favela in the Brazilian Telenovela, Brazil in
Twenty-First Century Popular Media: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on
the World Stage (Naomi Wood, ed.), New York: Lexington Books, 92-108.
Diaspora. Cacilda Rêgo, Marcus Brasileiro and Carolina Rocha, Directory of
World Cinema: Brazil (Natalia Pinazza & Louis Bayman, eds.), Bristol
(UK)/Chicago (US): Intellect, 168-186.
Introduction. Cacilda Rêgo and Carolina Rocha, New Trends in Argentine and
Brazilian Cinema (Cacilda Rêgo and Carolina Rocha, eds.), Bristol: Intellect,
1-15.
From Humble Beginning to International Prominence: The History and
Development of the Brazilian Telenovela, Soap Operas and Telenovelas in
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2011
2007
1993
the Digital Age (Diana I. Rios and Mari Castañeda, eds.), New York: Peter
Lang, 75-92.
TV Aberta, o futuro já começou, Televisão na América Latina: 1950-2010 –
Pioneirismo, Ousadia, Inventividade (José Marques de Mello & Maria
Cristina Gobbi, eds.), São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo:
UNESCO/Metodista, 63-85.
Brazil and The Globalization of Telenovelas. Cacilda Rêgo and A. La Pastina,
Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (Daya Thussu, ed.),
London: Routledge, 99-115.
On Readers and Texts: Tracking the Routes of Cultural Studies, Communication
for a New World (José Marques de Melo, ed.), São Paulo, Brazil: ECA/USP,
87-108.
Book Chapter Reprints
2011
2010 [2015, 2nd ed.]
The Fall and Rise of Brazilian Cinema. Cacilda Rêgo, New Trends in
Argentine and Brazilian Cinema (Cacilda Rêgo and Carolina Rocha,
eds.), Bristol, UK/Chicago, US: Intellect, 35-49.
Brazil and the Globalization of Telenovelas. Cacilda Rêgo and A. La
Pastina, International Communication: Essential Readings (Vandana
Pednekaar-Magal, ed.), San Diego: Cognella, 217-233. [145-161 of
2nd edition]
Book Reviews
2015
2015
2011
Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy (Leslie L.
Marsh, Illinois UP, 2012), Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas
(formerly known as Studies in Hispanic Cinemas) 12 (3): 323-325.
The Brazilian Audiovisual Industry: An Explosion of Creativity and Opportunities
for Partnerships (Steve Solot, ed., LATC, 2012), Luso Brazilian Review 52
(1): 157-160.
Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment (D. Sadlier, ed.,
Illinois UP, 2009), Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 29: 230-232.
Invited Refereed Encyclopedia Entry
2005
Telenovelas. Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
(Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez, eds.) 4: 204-208.
Article appearing in translation
2004
Centralidad de las telenovelas en la vida cotidiana de América Latina:
Tendencias pasadas, conocimiento actual e investigación por venir. Adriana
Cecilia Zertuche Avila, Trans. (with A. LaPastina and J. Straubhaar). Global
Media Journal (Spanish Version) (Spring Issue) 1 (1),
http://gmje.mty.itesm.mx/primavera_2004.html
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Newspaper and magazine articles
2013
2010
More than an academic experience. Liberalis [summer issue], under “Office
Hours: A Faculty Perspective”, CHaSS, Office of the Dean,
http://liberalis.usu.edu/2012/winter/office_hours.html
The Growing Presence of Telenovelas. The Statement. Faculty Voices,
September 15, p. 13.
Conferences (national and international)
2014
2014
2012
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2007
2007
2006
2005
2004
Keynote address, The Telenovela Melodrama: The global emergence of a genre.
Paper presented at Featuring Africa: Exploring the Plurality of African
Digital Film Cultures, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle,
University of Liège (Liège, Belgium), October 3-4.
Brazilian Cinema: Recent Trends and Tendencies. Brazilian Studies Association
(BRASA), August 20-23, London, UK.
Latin American Cinema in the Year 2000. International Conference of
Americanists (ICA). July 16-20, Vienna, Austria.
From Humble Beginning to International Prominence: The History and
Development of Brazilian Telenovelas. Latin American Studies Association
(LASA), October 6-9, Toronto, Canada.
Keynote address, Televisão Brasileira: 60 anos (1950-2010), XIV Colóquio
Internacional sobre a Escola Latino-Americana de Comunicação/Televisão
na América Latina: 60 Anos de Aculturação, Mestiçagem, Mundialização
(CELACOM 2010), Catédra UNESCO de Comunicação para o
Desenvolvimento Regional/Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, São
Paulo, Brazil, May 17-19.
Lost in Translation?: The Failure of U.S.-made Telenovelas to Appeal to
Hispanic Viewers. Popular Culture Association (PCA), April 8-11, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
The Rise of Brazilian Film and TV Globo’s Hegemony over the Film Industry.
Popular Culture Association (PCA), April 8-11, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Stairway to Heaven: State Policy, Globo TV and the Rise of Filmmaking in
Brazil (1990-2006). Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March
6-9, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Globo Going Global: From Telenovela’s Brazilianization to Internationalization.
(With A. LaPastina). International Communication Association (ICA), May
24-28, San Francisco, California.
Keynote address, As the Globe Turns: New Trends in the Telenovela Industry.
Paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, The University of
Arizona, February 16, Tucson, Arizona.
Brazil and the globalization of telenovela. (With A. LaPastina). Global Fusion,
September 29-October 1, Chicago, Illinois.
Brazilian Cinema: From Embrafilme to Globo Filmes. First Midwest Meeting of
Brazilianists, April 16, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin.
Turning Scarcity into Wealth, or the ‘Boom’ of Brazilian Cinema in the 1990s.
Popular Culture Association Conference (PCA), April 24, San Antonio,
Texas.
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2003
2002
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1989
Minisséries: A re-invenção da literatura brasileira no vídeo. International
Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), June 6-10, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
The New Brazilian Cinema: How Brazilian Is It? Global Fusion, October 24-26,
Austin, Texas.
TV Globo: A Deusa aos 40! Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), April 6,
Atlanta, Georgia.
TV Genres: Global Flows, Local Adaptations and Hybridization. (With J.
Straubhaar and A. LaPastina). International Communication Association
(ICA), June 3, Acapulco, Mexico.
Melodrama: History and Evolution of Latin American Telenovelas. (With A.
LaPastina). Pre-ICA Conference Meeting, May 31, Acapulco, Mexico.
Marginality and Otherness: Phases and Faces of Brazilian Cinema. Conference of
the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP),
November 21-23, Nashville, Tennessee.
Tracking the Routes of Cultural Studies in Europe, Latin America and the United
States. Eighteenth Scientific Conference of the International Association for
Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), August 18-22, Guarujá, São
Paulo, Brazil.
Photonovels in Latin America: Just a Tool for Social Conformity? Translating
Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture as Text, April
19-21, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York.
Theory and Practice of Film and Popular Culture in Brazil. Conference on
Literature and Popular Culture, April 21-22, The University of Texas at
Austin, Texas.
Cinema Novo and the Question of the Popular. Conference on Latin American
Popular Culture, April 12-15, East Lansing, Michigan.
Invited Scholarly Presentations and Lectures
2011
2011
2011
2010
2005
Guest Participant, Round Table on “Televisão e Cultura Brasileira” organized by
Grupo PET-RTV and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Televisão Digital:
Informação e Conhecimento da Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e
Comunicação da Universidade Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESPBauru, São Paulo), August 12.
Guest Lecturer, In Black and White: Multiculturalism and Brazilian Television,
Washington and Lee University, Department of Romance Languages,
Lexington, Virginia, May 16.
Guest Participant, Mulheres da Retomada After the Retomada. Paper presented at
Mulheres da Retomada: Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Brazilian
Cinema, Tulane University, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin
American Studies/Newcombe College Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana,
February 16-18.
Invited Participant, Latin American Cinema, 2010 LASA Pre-Conference
Workshop, led by Ana López (Tulane University) and Ernesto LivonGrosman (Boston College), Toronto, October 6.
Guest Lecturer, TV and Cinema in Brazil. UT Austin-UFBA Summer Abroad
Program (Dir. Joseph Straubhaar), Universidade Federal da Bahia,
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, June 13.
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2003
2002
1998
Guest Speaker, Between Hell and Heaven: Notes on Contemporary Brazilian
Cinema. Paper presented at Merienda Brown Bag Lecture Series, Center
for Latin American Studies, The University of Kansas, May 5.
Guest Speaker, Brazilian Cinema: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You.
University of Colorado, Boulder, April 6.
Guest Lecturer, Brazilian Popular Culture. The University of Kansas, History
Department (Dr. Elizabeth Kuzosnov), February 13.
Guest Speaker, Brazilian Filmmaking and the Pitfalls of Consciousness Raising.
Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Program/Brazil’s Center
Speakers Series, April 3.
Public Professional Interviews
2010
2010
2010
“Esperando Godot” (Igor Ribeiro and Karina Padial), Imprensa, September Issue,
Ano 24, No. 260: 88-91.
“Fim da TV é questão de tempo, diz pesquisadora” (Daniel Castro), May 21,
http://noticias.r7.com/blogs/daniel-castro/fim-da-tv-atual-e-questao-detempo-diz-pesquisadora/2010/05/24
“2 Contra 2” (video interview) given as part of a seminar at UNIVESP, São
Paulo, Brazil, available at Celacom.MOV.mov,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLt51J1mP4M
Public Service
2008
2007
2002
2001
1997
Moderator, Panel on Crossing The Borders of Race, O.C. Tanner Symposium,
April 2, Logan, Utah
Presenter and Discussant, Bus 174 (Dir. José Padilha), Latin American Week
Extravaganza, Utah State University (Spring).
Presenter, Solo, the Law of the Favela (Dir. Jos de Putter), Latin American Film
Week, The University of Kansas (Fall).
Presenter and Discussant, Telenovelas: Love, TV, and Power (Dir. Alexandre
Valenti), Latin American Film Week, The University of Kansas (Fall).
Presenter, Os Chapeleiros (Dir. Adrian Cooper). Latin American Shorts
Program, Mexican Art Museum, Austin, May 9.
Courses Designed and Taught (1991-Present)
*All levels of Portuguese language, including specialized courses such as, Portuguese for Spanish
Speakers, and Advanced Conversation and Composition. (UT, Vanderbilt, KU, USU)
*Cinema, Literature, and Popular Culture. Undergraduate. (UT)
*Modern Brazilian Literature and Culture. Graduate and Undergraduate. (Vanderbilt, KU)
*International Communication/Global Culture. Undergraduate. (UT)
*Development of the Motion Picture. Undergraduate. (UT)
*Brazilian Cultural Studies: From Modernism to Tropicalism. Graduate and Undergraduate. (KU)
*Survey of Brazilian Literature: 1900-Present. Graduate and Undergraduate. (Vanderbilt, KU,
USU)
*The Brazilian Short Story. Graduate and Undergraduate. (KU, USU)
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*The Brazilian Drama. Graduate. (KU)
*The Brazilian Novel. Graduate. (KU)
*Textual Analysis and Critical Reading. Graduate and Undergraduate. (KU)
*Studies in Brazilian Film. Graduate and Undergraduate. (KU)
*Brazilian Culture and Civilization. Undergraduate. (KU, USU)
*Several Independent Reading Courses on Brazilian Literature and Brazilian Culture at both
graduate and undergraduate levels (KU, USU)
*Global Communication. Undergraduate. (USU).
*Film Studies in Portuguese. Undergraduate. (USU).
*Comunicação/Televisão Brasileira na Era Digital--Brazilian Television in the Digital Era.
Graduate Seminar (UNESP-Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil).
Curriculum Development
*Portuguese Language Minor Program (USU)
*Global Communication Major (USU)
-Leading teacher for core curriculum course: Communication in the Global Era
*Brazilian Studies and Portuguese Language Minor Program (KU)
Teacher In-Service
2008-2012, 2015
2008, 2009
2008
2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
USU - Connections (Summer)
Latinas First Panel Series, Mentorship for 8th and 9th graders at
South Cache Middle School (Hyrum), directed by Dr. Grace
Huerta, Department of Education (USU) in partnership with
Connie Mecham, Instructor at South Cache Middle School
(Spring).
Mentor for USU Honors Program, Corey Clawson (Spring)
A Short Survey of Brazilian History, Literature, and Culture
(LATS 2200, co-taught Introduction to Latin America), Latin
American Studies Program Teacher In-Service, USU (Spring)
Editorial Experience
Journal guest editor of a special issue of SLAPC
*Co-editor (with Carolina Rocha) of a Special Issue of Studies in Latin
American Popular Culture (Vol. 33, 2015)
Member, Editorial Board
2015-Present
2014-Present
2013-Present
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (UT Press)
Latin American Gender and Sexualities (a new Latin American Studies
series edited by Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville), Lexington Books.
LEPENSAMENTO, UNESP-Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil (Academic Press).
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Member, Editorial Committee
2002-Present
Latin American Theater Review (LATR, U of Kansas/KU Dept. of
Spanish and Portuguese)
Invited Referee Requests by Peer-Reviewed Journals and Academic
Book Presses
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2010
2009
2008-Present
2008
1996
1987
Reviewer for Television and New Media (Sage, UK/US)
Reviewer for Routledge (book manuscript proposal)
Reviewer for Popular Communication (Routledge, UK)
Reviewer for Routledge (book manuscript proposal)
Reviewer for Cambria (book manuscript)
Reviewer for Luso Brazilian Review (U of Wisconsin)
Reviewer for Feminist Media Studies (Taylor & Francis, UK)
Reviewer for JILAR - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research
(U of Sidney, Australia)
Reviewer for Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language,
Literature in English and Cultural Studies (Universidade de Santa
Catarina, Brazil)
Reviewer for Routledge (book manuscript)
Reviewer for Cultural Dynamics (SAGE, US)
Reviewer for International Communication Association (ICA),
Dissertation Awards Committee
Reviewer for Luso Brazilian Review (U of Wisconsin)
Reviewer for Routledge (book manuscript proposal)
Reviewer for Continuum Books (book manuscript proposal)
Reviewer for Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (SLAPC, U of
Texas at Austin)
Reviewer for International Communication Association (ICA)
Mass Communication and Popular Communication Divisions
Reviewer for Crisolenguas (Puerto Rico).
Reviewer for International Communication Association (ICA)
Mass Communication, Popular Communication, and Visual
Communication Divisions
Invited Editor, Dactylus: Revista de Literatura, Cultura y Lingüística,
Nos.15,16.
Co-producer (with K. David Jackson), Transformations of Literary
Language in Latin American Literature: From Machado de Assis to
the Vanguards. Austin: UT Press.
Conference Panels Organized and/or Moderated
2012
2012
Co-organizer (with Marcus Brasileiro). Diasporas and Brazilian Cinema.
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), September 6-8, UrbanaChampaign, Illinois.
Organizer. Latin American cinemas after the year 2000, XXX
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2012
2010
2009
2003
1994
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
(LASA), May, 23-26, San Francisco, California.
Co-convener (with Carolina Rocha). Latin American cinemas after the
Year 2000, 54th International Congress of Americanists (ICA) in
Vienna, Austria, 15-20 July.
Organized. Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Brazilian Studies
Association (BRASA), July 22-24, Brasília, Brazil.
Organizer/Moderator. Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: New Tendencies
and Perspectives. Global Fusion, October 16-18, Austin, Texas.
Organizer (with Tamara Falicov). The Global, the National, and the
Local in Brazilian Film and Television. Global Fusion 2003 Meeting,
October 24-26, Austin, Texas.
Co-organizer (with John Downing). Brazilian Week Film Series. The
Institute of Latin American Studies/Center for Brazilian Studies at
the University of Texas at Austin.
Academic Service
Global Communication Major Practicum Advisement
2013-Present
Annelise Purser (2015)
Jordan Stuart (2014)
Aaron Edwards (2014)
Robert Llewellyn (2013)
Whittney Lange
Kylie Christopherson
Sara Holmes
New Faculty Teaching Academy Mentor
2011-2012
Faculty Mentor to Kyle Bulthuis, Dept. of History
Tenure and Promotion Committee Member
2015
2015-Present
2014-Present
2014-Present
2012-Present
2010- 2015
2010- 2015
2010-2014
2010-2014
2009-2014
2009
2009
2009-2011
Karin deJonge Kanan, Linguistics
Crescencio López González, Spanish
Jason Gilmore, Global Communication
François Dengah, Anthropology, External Member
Claudia Schwabe, German
Marcus Brasileiro, Portuguese, Committee Chair
Ko-Yin Sung, Chinese
Abdulkafi Albirini, Arabic
Doris McGonagill, German
David Richter, Spanish
Karin deJonge Kanan, Linguistics
Matthew Sanders, Communication Studies, Interim Member
Javier Dominguez, Spanish
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Department and Program Service
2014-2015
2012-Present
2012-Present
2010-2013
2009-2010
Portuguese Language Search Committee (lecturer position)
Global Communication Major Program Committee
FLTA (Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant) Program/USU
Chair, LPCS Annual Awards Committee
Chair, Portuguese Language Search Committee (tenure-track assistant
professor)
Organizing Committee Chair, Annual LPSC Student Research
Symposium
Coordinator, Portuguese Language Minor Program
Spanish and Portuguese Section
2007-2013
2006-Present
2006
College and University Service, USU
2014-Present
2013
2012-Present
2010-2013
2010
2006-Present
Faculty Evaluation Committee (FEC) (CHaSS representative)
Post-Tenure Review Committee (CHaSS)
Ombudsperson
Faculty Senator (Elected CHaSS Representative)
Award Committee (CHaSS)
Advisory Committee, Latin American Studies Program (USU)
Honors Advisement
2009
Corey D. Clawson. Loss Translated: Saudade in the Work of Elizabeth
Bishop (Honors Thesis), Utah State University, English
Department (Spring).
Faculty Sponsor
2009
Corey D. Clawson, Rutgers English Diversity Institute (English
Literature)
Community Service
2012-2013
Member, Portuguese Steering Committee (Implementation of Portuguese Dual
Language Immersion –DLI-Programs in Utah Valley for 2013-2014
AY), Utah State Office of Education.
Teaching Supervision
2006-Present
2001-2006
Undergraduate Portuguese Instruction, USU, Department of Languages,
Philosophy and Speech Communication
Undergraduate Portuguese Instruction, KU, Department of Spanish and
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1997
Portuguese
Acting Coordinator and Undergraduate Supervisor, UT at Austin,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Spring)
Undergraduate Spanish Instruction, UT at Austin, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese (Summer)
Awards/Recognition
2013
2013
2011, 2012
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
1991
1986
Nominee, CHaSS Dean’s Giraffe Award.
Nominee, USU International Professor of the Year Award.
Nominee, LPCS Outstanding Faculty Service, and Best Researcher of the
Year Awards.
Nominee, LPSC Best Researcher of the Year Award.
Recipient, HASS Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the
Year Award.
Recipient, LPSC Best Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year
Award.
Nominee, LPSC Best Teacher of the Year Award.
Nominee, LPSC Best Researcher of the Year Award.
Nominee, LPSC Best Teacher of the Year Award.
Nominee, LPSC Best Undergraduate Mentor of the Year Award.
Nominee, Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts/Latin
American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Texas.
Recipient, The Institute of Latin American Studies “The Devil May Care
Award” for Outstanding Performance in the Latin American
Studies Graduate Program, University of Texas at Austin, Texas.
Grants & Fellowship Support
USU/Fulbright FLTA Program
2013, 2014
2012-2014
2012
Grant writer (with Abdulkafi Albirini, Karin deJagen-Kannan, Sarah
Gordon, and Doris McGonagill) for the Foreign Language Teaching
Assistant Program (FLTA) for German, French, Portuguese and Arabic
languages for the 2013-14 AY and 2014-15 AY
Recipient, Fulbright Grant FLTA Host Program on behalf of USU-LPCS
Grant writer (with Abdulkafi Albirini and Karin deJagen-Kannan) for the
Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA) for Portuguese
and Arabic languages for the 2012-13 AY
Utah State University
2014
2013
Mountain West Center for Regional Studies Small Grants Program. Not
Funded.
Data Gathering/Travel Grant (Brazil, November of 2013), Office of the
Dean (CHaSS), USU Center for Gender and Women Studies, LPCS
Department. Funded.
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2010
2007
Study Abroad Seed Grant Award (Brazil, Summer 2011), Office of
Global Engagement/International Education. Funded.
Stairway to Heaven: State Policy, Globo TV and the Rise of
‘Independent’ Filmmaking in Brazil. Funded.
2007-2008 New Faculty Research Grant. Funded.
Professional and Academic Associations
*International Communication Association (ICA)
*Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
*Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
*Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
*American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
*Popular Culture Association (PCA)
*Modern Language Association (MLA)