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O fluir dos intervalos: reflexões sobre literatura e sociedade no mundo contemporâneo, 2020

Linguagem, literatura e prática educativa: Reflexões sobre a sala de aula, 2022

Interculturalidade, línguas estrangeiras e o mundo do trabalho, 2024

Este artigo se desenvolve a partir da discussão das necessidades comunicativas no contexto de inc... more Este artigo se desenvolve a partir da discussão das necessidades comunicativas no contexto de inclusão dos refugiados e migrantes no Brasil. Deste modo, são analisados três livros didáticos feitos especificamente para esse público de Português como Língua de Acolhimento (PLAc) pensando na inclusão laboral e social. Em razão disso, o artigo apresenta a pesquisa feita com o objetivo de apresentar os tipos de habilidades linguísticas que são trabalhadas nesses materiais e discutir como os mesmos favorecem futuras oportunidades de trabalho para os refugiados e migrantes. Este estudo é relevante para compreender como os livros trabalham as habilidades comunicativas para esse público que necessita adequar rapidamente ao novo país. Dialogamos com as teorias sobre o ensino de português e, especificamente de PLAc junto à teorização de autores como Bachman, Capistrano, Faria, Souza e Carvalho et al., para apresentar uma fundamentação sobre o processo de aprendizagem desse grupo em específico. Também, são analisados os livros Diga trinta e três... em português, Sou todo ouvidos e Portas abertas, que preparam esse público para o mercado de trabalho.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Latin American Research Review, 2016

This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a fi gurehead in media... more This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a fi gurehead in media discourse, which is based on racializing logics that celebrate historical performances of Indigeneity but minimize attention to the political activity and grassroots movements of the existing population. Using cultural studies as a starting point, this study draws on Diana Taylor's understanding of identity and on postcolonial thinker Homi Bhabha's theorizing on nation to conduct a reading of discourses and performances of Indigeneity as part of cultural memory. I propose an analysis of the limited scenarios allowed in this construction of a nation in Brazilian media outlets, which often claim there is political motivation for identity and are incapable of dealing with contemporary Indigenous groups. Overall, this analysis highlights the need to rethink the way we discuss ethnic identity so as to foster a larger dialogue about identity, heritage, and minority cultures in such a way that we avoid falling into a paradigm of modernization and acculturation when discussing ethnicity, and to promote better understanding of the different ongoing political and cultural movements in contemporary Brazil.

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Aug 25, 2015

The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England univer... more The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England universities and colleges vis-à-vis a call for more specialized heritage learner programs in Portuguese. Building on and garnering theoretical support from more established heritage language programs in Spanish, this study details the learner profiles and goals of existing programs in local educational institutions. The goal is to delineate the gaps and opportunities in Portuguese heritage language programs and to offer suggestions for further research.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2011

addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of ... more addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of a border transformed into a virtual form that extends across the political landscape of the country. In engaging the analysis with the challenges this phenomenon poses for the politics of citizenship and immigration, the discussion interrogates implications for a shifting political imagination that may have already developed into new forms of social sorting. The multilayered cultural and social fabric of the population and the new ubiquitous nature of this contemporary border, reveal the need to reframe conceptual analysis about the borderlands where actual resources, experience and expertise are eclipsed by the shadow of a new “zero-risk” approach to security. Muller explains how “reliance on risk management in border security leads inevitably to a “zero risk” approach [that] acts most acutely to the detriment of the long-standing trans-border cultural, political, and market relations that make the borderland so robust.” He concludes that trends since 9-11 of centralizing control have disempowered the border region, threatening local knowledge and identity. Organized in eight generally brief chapters, the book effectively combines interdisciplinary theory and empirical evidence. The first four chapters provide an overview of the theoretical concepts that shape the author’s ideas, while the latter ones comprehensively integrate case studies to ground the discussion both temporally and spatially. For example, specific cases of the Canada-US border, and Iraq situate otherwise abstract concepts and temper a potentially simplified reading of the text. Muller’s treatment of the subject provides a level of detail appropriate for students and researchers seeking a well-grounded introduction to the topics, an approach that should also be a valuable resource for analysts interested in the broader implications of these modes of border security. Throughout the book the reader experiences a kind of maturation of the author’s original viewpoints from a primarily theoretical narrative with many technical terms and scholarly concepts of the earlier chapters, to the increased fluidity in the case studies. Therefore the power of the original ideas that the book contributes may not always be readily accessible to the reader until the later chapters where case studies allow them to be expressed with their full strength. The book largely succeeds in its examination of securitization and biopolitics, although Muller’s critical questioning of the potential for eroding democratic notions of citizenship, diversity, and collective identity is not extensive. Nonetheless, its outlook makes it an essential contribution to the field as it provides a sound basis for understanding potential transformations of borders and governance. While the book focuses on security, borders and the measured bodies that cross them, its implications reach a broader spectrum of issues including social values, ethics, international relations and the potential virtual erasure of the diverse nature of an entire citizenry.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2014

(often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and ... more (often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and discussion in the street. Different kinds of texts were displayed in different areas, their context conditioning their reception (street and merchant signs, self-promotion of services, theater handbills). Castillo Gómez illustrates the case of “the Flemish illusionist Juan Rogé” with a reproduction of the printed handbill from his 1655 tour from his Inquisitorial proceso, and cites Jerónimo de Barrionuevo’s encouraging news that “todo esto hace [Rogé] por medios naturales y aprobados por la Inquisición, donde ha estado dos veces y salido libre” (citing Avisos (1654-1658), BAE 221, I:219b; 17 November 1655). Castillo Gómez turns now to mentideros, even more ephemeral texts in urban spaces, whether metropolitan or provincial, public spaces in which people gathered in various (often professional) subgroups for the rapid diffusion of news, gossip, and lies, and for public reading of current ephemera. Heretofore, these materials have largely been studied only as manifestations of the early popular press or “minor literature,” or have escaped attention altogether as administrative or ephemeral and not “literary,” but they form a significant part of the complex interplay of all materials read in a given society and moment. Histories of (literary) reading generally omit this wider horizon, even though Cervantes himself describes it in Don Quixote I:9 (which initiates Castillo Gómez’s analysis), confessing that he is “aficionado de leer, aunque sean los papeles rotos de las calles,” doubtless bearing verses, canciones, pasquinades, and pamphlets very like these. Within the context of the traditional privileging of the literary, the canonical, and the elite, Castillo Gómez’s insistence on a readerreception approach to these materials and their appropriation makes perfect sense, even though he also freely uses more canonical evidence. He offers not only rich accounts of specific cases of reading in the sixteenthand seventeenth-century Hispanic world, but also models the use of a broad array of evidence to construct a cogent and compelling argument. Of particular interest for cultural studies is his reconstruction of the personal and collective experience of reading at all levels of society and including groups that were excluded from full literacy, and he convincingly portrays the range of possibilities across classes, genders, and communities of belief in appropriating and using texts of all kinds, the widest social horizon of reading practices. He thus provides a much-needed understanding of these modalities of reading in themselves, and an equally needed depth to our understanding of the “literary” and “canonical,” constructed categories into and out of which texts move, as well as of the common world that they represent and in which they participated. A review can’t include the compelling and fascinating details supporting his argument, but these details may well change our understanding of everyday early modern interactions with texts, and even of the Inquisition itself, making the present book highly recommended for those working in any aspect of Spain’s late medieval and early modern culture.

TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2017

This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year P... more This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year Plan and the Forest Carbon project implemented inside the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (SSIL) with the support of distinct political players such as United States-based Google Earth engine, Metareilá, Ministry of Culture, Ecosystem Marketplace/Forest Trends, among others. Brazil has a long history of complex relations with Indigenous rights, including long-due discussions on identity, land recognition and demarcation. The concern with environmental issues brings in a different layer of political interests to the scene. There is very little dialogue on the acceptance of their forms of knowledge by mainstream society, and, as this study highlights, this relation to nature is being pressured to be commercialized and quantified in a Western-style system. The essay concludes that the Suruí pact to sell its Carbon Credits to multinationals such as Natura is a good example of this strategy of paradoxical post-modernity: the traditional local values and culture of the Indigenous society can be represented through new technology, but it is through those machines that the groups can be observed and appropriated as non-threatening to a global audience.

International Journal of Iberian Studies, 2015

This article addresses the use of media for self-representation by the Roma community in Spain, a... more This article addresses the use of media for self-representation by the Roma community in Spain, and their process of negotiating a local, national, and transnational ethnic and political identity. I focus on Voces gitanas: Rromane glasurȃ/Roma Voices, a radio programme created in the city of Barcelona in 2005, using as its frame of reference cultural studies and urban theory, including David Harvey and Manuell Castells. Based on radio shows transmitted online and through FM radio, I discuss how the programme constitutes a tool for promoting culture, conducting political activism and discussing issues important to local communities. Through constant performances that translate as definitions of culture, I argue, the Roma community is able to restore and participate in the dialogue on self-determination and minority rights in a different sphere of discourse, both locally and globally, at the same time that they also influence their own (and others') understanding of their ethnic identity.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2014

(often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and ... more (often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and discussion in the street. Different kinds of texts were displayed in different areas, their context conditioning their reception (street and merchant signs, self-promotion of services, theater handbills). Castillo Gómez illustrates the case of “the Flemish illusionist Juan Rogé” with a reproduction of the printed handbill from his 1655 tour from his Inquisitorial proceso, and cites Jerónimo de Barrionuevo’s encouraging news that “todo esto hace [Rogé] por medios naturales y aprobados por la Inquisición, donde ha estado dos veces y salido libre” (citing Avisos (1654-1658), BAE 221, I:219b; 17 November 1655). Castillo Gómez turns now to mentideros, even more ephemeral texts in urban spaces, whether metropolitan or provincial, public spaces in which people gathered in various (often professional) subgroups for the rapid diffusion of news, gossip, and lies, and for public reading of current ephemera. Heretofore, these materials have largely been studied only as manifestations of the early popular press or “minor literature,” or have escaped attention altogether as administrative or ephemeral and not “literary,” but they form a significant part of the complex interplay of all materials read in a given society and moment. Histories of (literary) reading generally omit this wider horizon, even though Cervantes himself describes it in Don Quixote I:9 (which initiates Castillo Gómez’s analysis), confessing that he is “aficionado de leer, aunque sean los papeles rotos de las calles,” doubtless bearing verses, canciones, pasquinades, and pamphlets very like these. Within the context of the traditional privileging of the literary, the canonical, and the elite, Castillo Gómez’s insistence on a readerreception approach to these materials and their appropriation makes perfect sense, even though he also freely uses more canonical evidence. He offers not only rich accounts of specific cases of reading in the sixteenthand seventeenth-century Hispanic world, but also models the use of a broad array of evidence to construct a cogent and compelling argument. Of particular interest for cultural studies is his reconstruction of the personal and collective experience of reading at all levels of society and including groups that were excluded from full literacy, and he convincingly portrays the range of possibilities across classes, genders, and communities of belief in appropriating and using texts of all kinds, the widest social horizon of reading practices. He thus provides a much-needed understanding of these modalities of reading in themselves, and an equally needed depth to our understanding of the “literary” and “canonical,” constructed categories into and out of which texts move, as well as of the common world that they represent and in which they participated. A review can’t include the compelling and fascinating details supporting his argument, but these details may well change our understanding of everyday early modern interactions with texts, and even of the Inquisition itself, making the present book highly recommended for those working in any aspect of Spain’s late medieval and early modern culture.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2011

addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of ... more addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of a border transformed into a virtual form that extends across the political landscape of the country. In engaging the analysis with the challenges this phenomenon poses for the politics of citizenship and immigration, the discussion interrogates implications for a shifting political imagination that may have already developed into new forms of social sorting. The multilayered cultural and social fabric of the population and the new ubiquitous nature of this contemporary border, reveal the need to reframe conceptual analysis about the borderlands where actual resources, experience and expertise are eclipsed by the shadow of a new “zero-risk” approach to security. Muller explains how “reliance on risk management in border security leads inevitably to a “zero risk” approach [that] acts most acutely to the detriment of the long-standing trans-border cultural, political, and market relations that make the borderland so robust.” He concludes that trends since 9-11 of centralizing control have disempowered the border region, threatening local knowledge and identity. Organized in eight generally brief chapters, the book effectively combines interdisciplinary theory and empirical evidence. The first four chapters provide an overview of the theoretical concepts that shape the author’s ideas, while the latter ones comprehensively integrate case studies to ground the discussion both temporally and spatially. For example, specific cases of the Canada-US border, and Iraq situate otherwise abstract concepts and temper a potentially simplified reading of the text. Muller’s treatment of the subject provides a level of detail appropriate for students and researchers seeking a well-grounded introduction to the topics, an approach that should also be a valuable resource for analysts interested in the broader implications of these modes of border security. Throughout the book the reader experiences a kind of maturation of the author’s original viewpoints from a primarily theoretical narrative with many technical terms and scholarly concepts of the earlier chapters, to the increased fluidity in the case studies. Therefore the power of the original ideas that the book contributes may not always be readily accessible to the reader until the later chapters where case studies allow them to be expressed with their full strength. The book largely succeeds in its examination of securitization and biopolitics, although Muller’s critical questioning of the potential for eroding democratic notions of citizenship, diversity, and collective identity is not extensive. Nonetheless, its outlook makes it an essential contribution to the field as it provides a sound basis for understanding potential transformations of borders and governance. While the book focuses on security, borders and the measured bodies that cross them, its implications reach a broader spectrum of issues including social values, ethics, international relations and the potential virtual erasure of the diverse nature of an entire citizenry.

O fluir dos intervalos: Reflexões sobre literatura e sociedade no mundo contemporâneo, 2020

Hispania-a Journal Devoted To The Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, 2010

... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our... more ... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our view, materials developed specifically for teaching Portuguese to Spanish speakers should draw heavily on Schmidt's ("The Role," "Interlanguage," "Foreign Language") idea that ...

Hispania-a Journal Devoted To The Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, 2010

... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our... more ... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our view, materials developed specifically for teaching Portuguese to Spanish speakers should draw heavily on Schmidt's ("The Role," "Interlanguage," "Foreign Language") idea that ...

TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2017

This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year P... more This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year Plan and the Forest Carbon project implemented inside the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (SSIL) with the support of distinct political players such as United States-based Google Earth engine, Metareilá, Ministry of Culture, Ecosystem Marketplace/Forest Trends, among others. Brazil has a long history of complex relations with Indigenous rights, including long-due discussions on identity, land
recognition and demarcation. The concern with environmental issues brings in a different layer of political interests to the scene. There is very little dialogue on the acceptance of their forms of
knowledge by mainstream society, and, as this study highlights, this relation to nature is being pressured to be commercialized and quantified in a Western-style system. The essay concludes that the Suruí pact to sell its Carbon Credits to multinationals such as Natura is a good example of this
strategy of paradoxical post-modernity: the traditional local values and culture of the Indigenous society can be represented through new technology, but it is through those machines that the groups can
be observed and appropriated as non-threatening to a global audience.

Hispania, 2018

How much have we progressed in the area of Portuguese for Spanish speakers (PSS) in the United St... more How much have we progressed in the area of Portuguese for Spanish speakers (PSS) in the United States? The essay provides a thorough examination of previous research, raising issues of linguistic multicompetence also relevant to the field of third language acquisition (TLA). It dialogues with other research being done in Europe and elsewhere (see Aronin and Hufeisen 2009: 4; Cenoz, Hufeisen, and Jessner 2001: 2–3; De Angelis 2007: 10; Lindqvist and Bardel 2010: 87; Ó Laoire 2005: 82, and the role of language transfer in the learning process. PSS in the United States exists since the 1970s, gaining increased attention in the United States in the last decade with the support of associations such as AATSP and ACTFL, and conferences specifically tailored to the field (Carvalho 2013: 1). The author of the article proposes this particular context in the United States as a unique research setting where we

The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England univer... more The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England universities and colleges vis-à-vis a call for more specialized heritage learner programs in Portuguese. Building on and garnering theoretical support from more established heritage language programs in Spanish, this study details the learner profiles and goals of existing programs in local educational institutions. The goal is to delineate the gaps and opportunities in Portuguese heritage language programs and to offer suggestions for further research.

O fluir dos intervalos: reflexões sobre literatura e sociedade no mundo contemporâneo, 2020

Linguagem, literatura e prática educativa: Reflexões sobre a sala de aula, 2022

Interculturalidade, línguas estrangeiras e o mundo do trabalho, 2024

Este artigo se desenvolve a partir da discussão das necessidades comunicativas no contexto de inc... more Este artigo se desenvolve a partir da discussão das necessidades comunicativas no contexto de inclusão dos refugiados e migrantes no Brasil. Deste modo, são analisados três livros didáticos feitos especificamente para esse público de Português como Língua de Acolhimento (PLAc) pensando na inclusão laboral e social. Em razão disso, o artigo apresenta a pesquisa feita com o objetivo de apresentar os tipos de habilidades linguísticas que são trabalhadas nesses materiais e discutir como os mesmos favorecem futuras oportunidades de trabalho para os refugiados e migrantes. Este estudo é relevante para compreender como os livros trabalham as habilidades comunicativas para esse público que necessita adequar rapidamente ao novo país. Dialogamos com as teorias sobre o ensino de português e, especificamente de PLAc junto à teorização de autores como Bachman, Capistrano, Faria, Souza e Carvalho et al., para apresentar uma fundamentação sobre o processo de aprendizagem desse grupo em específico. Também, são analisados os livros Diga trinta e três... em português, Sou todo ouvidos e Portas abertas, que preparam esse público para o mercado de trabalho.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Latin American Research Review, 2016

This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a fi gurehead in media... more This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a fi gurehead in media discourse, which is based on racializing logics that celebrate historical performances of Indigeneity but minimize attention to the political activity and grassroots movements of the existing population. Using cultural studies as a starting point, this study draws on Diana Taylor's understanding of identity and on postcolonial thinker Homi Bhabha's theorizing on nation to conduct a reading of discourses and performances of Indigeneity as part of cultural memory. I propose an analysis of the limited scenarios allowed in this construction of a nation in Brazilian media outlets, which often claim there is political motivation for identity and are incapable of dealing with contemporary Indigenous groups. Overall, this analysis highlights the need to rethink the way we discuss ethnic identity so as to foster a larger dialogue about identity, heritage, and minority cultures in such a way that we avoid falling into a paradigm of modernization and acculturation when discussing ethnicity, and to promote better understanding of the different ongoing political and cultural movements in contemporary Brazil.

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Aug 25, 2015

The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England univer... more The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England universities and colleges vis-à-vis a call for more specialized heritage learner programs in Portuguese. Building on and garnering theoretical support from more established heritage language programs in Spanish, this study details the learner profiles and goals of existing programs in local educational institutions. The goal is to delineate the gaps and opportunities in Portuguese heritage language programs and to offer suggestions for further research.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2011

addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of ... more addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of a border transformed into a virtual form that extends across the political landscape of the country. In engaging the analysis with the challenges this phenomenon poses for the politics of citizenship and immigration, the discussion interrogates implications for a shifting political imagination that may have already developed into new forms of social sorting. The multilayered cultural and social fabric of the population and the new ubiquitous nature of this contemporary border, reveal the need to reframe conceptual analysis about the borderlands where actual resources, experience and expertise are eclipsed by the shadow of a new “zero-risk” approach to security. Muller explains how “reliance on risk management in border security leads inevitably to a “zero risk” approach [that] acts most acutely to the detriment of the long-standing trans-border cultural, political, and market relations that make the borderland so robust.” He concludes that trends since 9-11 of centralizing control have disempowered the border region, threatening local knowledge and identity. Organized in eight generally brief chapters, the book effectively combines interdisciplinary theory and empirical evidence. The first four chapters provide an overview of the theoretical concepts that shape the author’s ideas, while the latter ones comprehensively integrate case studies to ground the discussion both temporally and spatially. For example, specific cases of the Canada-US border, and Iraq situate otherwise abstract concepts and temper a potentially simplified reading of the text. Muller’s treatment of the subject provides a level of detail appropriate for students and researchers seeking a well-grounded introduction to the topics, an approach that should also be a valuable resource for analysts interested in the broader implications of these modes of border security. Throughout the book the reader experiences a kind of maturation of the author’s original viewpoints from a primarily theoretical narrative with many technical terms and scholarly concepts of the earlier chapters, to the increased fluidity in the case studies. Therefore the power of the original ideas that the book contributes may not always be readily accessible to the reader until the later chapters where case studies allow them to be expressed with their full strength. The book largely succeeds in its examination of securitization and biopolitics, although Muller’s critical questioning of the potential for eroding democratic notions of citizenship, diversity, and collective identity is not extensive. Nonetheless, its outlook makes it an essential contribution to the field as it provides a sound basis for understanding potential transformations of borders and governance. While the book focuses on security, borders and the measured bodies that cross them, its implications reach a broader spectrum of issues including social values, ethics, international relations and the potential virtual erasure of the diverse nature of an entire citizenry.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2014

(often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and ... more (often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and discussion in the street. Different kinds of texts were displayed in different areas, their context conditioning their reception (street and merchant signs, self-promotion of services, theater handbills). Castillo Gómez illustrates the case of “the Flemish illusionist Juan Rogé” with a reproduction of the printed handbill from his 1655 tour from his Inquisitorial proceso, and cites Jerónimo de Barrionuevo’s encouraging news that “todo esto hace [Rogé] por medios naturales y aprobados por la Inquisición, donde ha estado dos veces y salido libre” (citing Avisos (1654-1658), BAE 221, I:219b; 17 November 1655). Castillo Gómez turns now to mentideros, even more ephemeral texts in urban spaces, whether metropolitan or provincial, public spaces in which people gathered in various (often professional) subgroups for the rapid diffusion of news, gossip, and lies, and for public reading of current ephemera. Heretofore, these materials have largely been studied only as manifestations of the early popular press or “minor literature,” or have escaped attention altogether as administrative or ephemeral and not “literary,” but they form a significant part of the complex interplay of all materials read in a given society and moment. Histories of (literary) reading generally omit this wider horizon, even though Cervantes himself describes it in Don Quixote I:9 (which initiates Castillo Gómez’s analysis), confessing that he is “aficionado de leer, aunque sean los papeles rotos de las calles,” doubtless bearing verses, canciones, pasquinades, and pamphlets very like these. Within the context of the traditional privileging of the literary, the canonical, and the elite, Castillo Gómez’s insistence on a readerreception approach to these materials and their appropriation makes perfect sense, even though he also freely uses more canonical evidence. He offers not only rich accounts of specific cases of reading in the sixteenthand seventeenth-century Hispanic world, but also models the use of a broad array of evidence to construct a cogent and compelling argument. Of particular interest for cultural studies is his reconstruction of the personal and collective experience of reading at all levels of society and including groups that were excluded from full literacy, and he convincingly portrays the range of possibilities across classes, genders, and communities of belief in appropriating and using texts of all kinds, the widest social horizon of reading practices. He thus provides a much-needed understanding of these modalities of reading in themselves, and an equally needed depth to our understanding of the “literary” and “canonical,” constructed categories into and out of which texts move, as well as of the common world that they represent and in which they participated. A review can’t include the compelling and fascinating details supporting his argument, but these details may well change our understanding of everyday early modern interactions with texts, and even of the Inquisition itself, making the present book highly recommended for those working in any aspect of Spain’s late medieval and early modern culture.

TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2017

This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year P... more This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year Plan and the Forest Carbon project implemented inside the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (SSIL) with the support of distinct political players such as United States-based Google Earth engine, Metareilá, Ministry of Culture, Ecosystem Marketplace/Forest Trends, among others. Brazil has a long history of complex relations with Indigenous rights, including long-due discussions on identity, land recognition and demarcation. The concern with environmental issues brings in a different layer of political interests to the scene. There is very little dialogue on the acceptance of their forms of knowledge by mainstream society, and, as this study highlights, this relation to nature is being pressured to be commercialized and quantified in a Western-style system. The essay concludes that the Suruí pact to sell its Carbon Credits to multinationals such as Natura is a good example of this strategy of paradoxical post-modernity: the traditional local values and culture of the Indigenous society can be represented through new technology, but it is through those machines that the groups can be observed and appropriated as non-threatening to a global audience.

International Journal of Iberian Studies, 2015

This article addresses the use of media for self-representation by the Roma community in Spain, a... more This article addresses the use of media for self-representation by the Roma community in Spain, and their process of negotiating a local, national, and transnational ethnic and political identity. I focus on Voces gitanas: Rromane glasurȃ/Roma Voices, a radio programme created in the city of Barcelona in 2005, using as its frame of reference cultural studies and urban theory, including David Harvey and Manuell Castells. Based on radio shows transmitted online and through FM radio, I discuss how the programme constitutes a tool for promoting culture, conducting political activism and discussing issues important to local communities. Through constant performances that translate as definitions of culture, I argue, the Roma community is able to restore and participate in the dialogue on self-determination and minority rights in a different sphere of discourse, both locally and globally, at the same time that they also influence their own (and others') understanding of their ethnic identity.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2014

(often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and ... more (often with images, particularly of saints) affixed in public spaces, and collective reading and discussion in the street. Different kinds of texts were displayed in different areas, their context conditioning their reception (street and merchant signs, self-promotion of services, theater handbills). Castillo Gómez illustrates the case of “the Flemish illusionist Juan Rogé” with a reproduction of the printed handbill from his 1655 tour from his Inquisitorial proceso, and cites Jerónimo de Barrionuevo’s encouraging news that “todo esto hace [Rogé] por medios naturales y aprobados por la Inquisición, donde ha estado dos veces y salido libre” (citing Avisos (1654-1658), BAE 221, I:219b; 17 November 1655). Castillo Gómez turns now to mentideros, even more ephemeral texts in urban spaces, whether metropolitan or provincial, public spaces in which people gathered in various (often professional) subgroups for the rapid diffusion of news, gossip, and lies, and for public reading of current ephemera. Heretofore, these materials have largely been studied only as manifestations of the early popular press or “minor literature,” or have escaped attention altogether as administrative or ephemeral and not “literary,” but they form a significant part of the complex interplay of all materials read in a given society and moment. Histories of (literary) reading generally omit this wider horizon, even though Cervantes himself describes it in Don Quixote I:9 (which initiates Castillo Gómez’s analysis), confessing that he is “aficionado de leer, aunque sean los papeles rotos de las calles,” doubtless bearing verses, canciones, pasquinades, and pamphlets very like these. Within the context of the traditional privileging of the literary, the canonical, and the elite, Castillo Gómez’s insistence on a readerreception approach to these materials and their appropriation makes perfect sense, even though he also freely uses more canonical evidence. He offers not only rich accounts of specific cases of reading in the sixteenthand seventeenth-century Hispanic world, but also models the use of a broad array of evidence to construct a cogent and compelling argument. Of particular interest for cultural studies is his reconstruction of the personal and collective experience of reading at all levels of society and including groups that were excluded from full literacy, and he convincingly portrays the range of possibilities across classes, genders, and communities of belief in appropriating and using texts of all kinds, the widest social horizon of reading practices. He thus provides a much-needed understanding of these modalities of reading in themselves, and an equally needed depth to our understanding of the “literary” and “canonical,” constructed categories into and out of which texts move, as well as of the common world that they represent and in which they participated. A review can’t include the compelling and fascinating details supporting his argument, but these details may well change our understanding of everyday early modern interactions with texts, and even of the Inquisition itself, making the present book highly recommended for those working in any aspect of Spain’s late medieval and early modern culture.

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2011

addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of ... more addresses this contradiction, its main objective is to depict the emergence and proliferation of a border transformed into a virtual form that extends across the political landscape of the country. In engaging the analysis with the challenges this phenomenon poses for the politics of citizenship and immigration, the discussion interrogates implications for a shifting political imagination that may have already developed into new forms of social sorting. The multilayered cultural and social fabric of the population and the new ubiquitous nature of this contemporary border, reveal the need to reframe conceptual analysis about the borderlands where actual resources, experience and expertise are eclipsed by the shadow of a new “zero-risk” approach to security. Muller explains how “reliance on risk management in border security leads inevitably to a “zero risk” approach [that] acts most acutely to the detriment of the long-standing trans-border cultural, political, and market relations that make the borderland so robust.” He concludes that trends since 9-11 of centralizing control have disempowered the border region, threatening local knowledge and identity. Organized in eight generally brief chapters, the book effectively combines interdisciplinary theory and empirical evidence. The first four chapters provide an overview of the theoretical concepts that shape the author’s ideas, while the latter ones comprehensively integrate case studies to ground the discussion both temporally and spatially. For example, specific cases of the Canada-US border, and Iraq situate otherwise abstract concepts and temper a potentially simplified reading of the text. Muller’s treatment of the subject provides a level of detail appropriate for students and researchers seeking a well-grounded introduction to the topics, an approach that should also be a valuable resource for analysts interested in the broader implications of these modes of border security. Throughout the book the reader experiences a kind of maturation of the author’s original viewpoints from a primarily theoretical narrative with many technical terms and scholarly concepts of the earlier chapters, to the increased fluidity in the case studies. Therefore the power of the original ideas that the book contributes may not always be readily accessible to the reader until the later chapters where case studies allow them to be expressed with their full strength. The book largely succeeds in its examination of securitization and biopolitics, although Muller’s critical questioning of the potential for eroding democratic notions of citizenship, diversity, and collective identity is not extensive. Nonetheless, its outlook makes it an essential contribution to the field as it provides a sound basis for understanding potential transformations of borders and governance. While the book focuses on security, borders and the measured bodies that cross them, its implications reach a broader spectrum of issues including social values, ethics, international relations and the potential virtual erasure of the diverse nature of an entire citizenry.

O fluir dos intervalos: Reflexões sobre literatura e sociedade no mundo contemporâneo, 2020

Hispania-a Journal Devoted To The Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, 2010

... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our... more ... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our view, materials developed specifically for teaching Portuguese to Spanish speakers should draw heavily on Schmidt's ("The Role," "Interlanguage," "Foreign Language") idea that ...

Hispania-a Journal Devoted To The Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, 2010

... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our... more ... Ana M. Carvalho Juliana Luna Freire Antonio JB da Silva University of Arizona, USA ... In our view, materials developed specifically for teaching Portuguese to Spanish speakers should draw heavily on Schmidt's ("The Role," "Interlanguage," "Foreign Language") idea that ...

TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2017

This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year P... more This study analyzes the experience of the Indigenous Paiter-Suruí in Brazil with the Fifty-Year Plan and the Forest Carbon project implemented inside the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (SSIL) with the support of distinct political players such as United States-based Google Earth engine, Metareilá, Ministry of Culture, Ecosystem Marketplace/Forest Trends, among others. Brazil has a long history of complex relations with Indigenous rights, including long-due discussions on identity, land
recognition and demarcation. The concern with environmental issues brings in a different layer of political interests to the scene. There is very little dialogue on the acceptance of their forms of
knowledge by mainstream society, and, as this study highlights, this relation to nature is being pressured to be commercialized and quantified in a Western-style system. The essay concludes that the Suruí pact to sell its Carbon Credits to multinationals such as Natura is a good example of this
strategy of paradoxical post-modernity: the traditional local values and culture of the Indigenous society can be represented through new technology, but it is through those machines that the groups can
be observed and appropriated as non-threatening to a global audience.

Hispania, 2018

How much have we progressed in the area of Portuguese for Spanish speakers (PSS) in the United St... more How much have we progressed in the area of Portuguese for Spanish speakers (PSS) in the United States? The essay provides a thorough examination of previous research, raising issues of linguistic multicompetence also relevant to the field of third language acquisition (TLA). It dialogues with other research being done in Europe and elsewhere (see Aronin and Hufeisen 2009: 4; Cenoz, Hufeisen, and Jessner 2001: 2–3; De Angelis 2007: 10; Lindqvist and Bardel 2010: 87; Ó Laoire 2005: 82, and the role of language transfer in the learning process. PSS in the United States exists since the 1970s, gaining increased attention in the United States in the last decade with the support of associations such as AATSP and ACTFL, and conferences specifically tailored to the field (Carvalho 2013: 1). The author of the article proposes this particular context in the United States as a unique research setting where we

The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England univer... more The present study outlines the current Portuguese language offerings in select New England universities and colleges vis-à-vis a call for more specialized heritage learner programs in Portuguese. Building on and garnering theoretical support from more established heritage language programs in Spanish, this study details the learner profiles and goals of existing programs in local educational institutions. The goal is to delineate the gaps and opportunities in Portuguese heritage language programs and to offer suggestions for further research.

Annals of the IX Oxbridge Conference on Brazilian Studies, 2021

Research indicates that the process of adapting to a new country and learning a new language invo... more Research indicates that the process of adapting to a new country and learning a new language involves contact and support by a gamut of distinct institutions -- multiple factors, such as pre-migration schooling (Tubergen, 2010), influence a successful resettlement, and scholars also discuss the mental and psychological burden of language acquisition within the first decade of the arrival (Beiser and Hou, 2001). This study consider the barriers created by the Covid-19 pandemic and the isolation imposed by the lockdowns and restrictions, and how that affected the refugees and immigrants recently arrived in the State of Paraíba, Brazil. For this study, immigrants in the northeastern city of João Pessoa were surveyed on their experiences of language acquisition during the pandemic. In the case of children, early exposure to excessive technology and less exposure to family conversation or early school interactions was a severe hindrance. In fact, Brazil has been one of the latest countries to return with activities in the public school system, which directly affected the lower-income population. Thus, the groups of immigrants were affected by this lack of support from public schools and public daycare. The data was collected through an attitudinal questionnaire (quantitative data) and a semi-structured interview (qualitative data) with adults and students. We take into consideration the variation in the proficiencies of multilingual students (Beaudrie & Ducar, 2005; Potowski, 2005; Valdés 1995, 2005) and the context of language acquisition (Child 2013) to discuss pedagogical implications relevant to the field of Portuguese as a Foreign Language or, more specifically, Portuguese as a Host Language (Português como Língua de Acolhimento). Ultimately, the participants examine different factors that impacted the language acquisition of adult and children of the region, also implying that different methodological approaches will have to be done in order to successfully include these individuals in our school system and workforce in the future.

This website provides free activities for Spanish speakers (native speakers, heritage speakers, F... more This website provides free activities for Spanish speakers (native speakers, heritage speakers, FL/SL learners of Spanish) interested in learning (or improving) your Portuguese skills. It was created for the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy, in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Arizona. Directed by Dr. Ana Carvalho and co-authored by Juliana Luna Freire and Antonio José B. da Silva, this website provides users with authentic readings, grammatical explanations and exercises to help them learn some of the structural aspects of the Portuguese language. For more information on methodology and to give us some suggestions, please visit the "About the Project" section.

PALAVRAS ALÉM DOS LIVROS LITERATURA NEGRO-BRASILEIRA ESCRITA POR MULHERES, 2021

Múltiplas formas das linguagens na sociedade: práticas interdisciplinares em foco, 2024

Todos os direitos garantidos. Qualquer parte desta obra pode ser reproduzida, transmitida ou arqu... more Todos os direitos garantidos. Qualquer parte desta obra pode ser reproduzida, transmitida ou arquivada desde que levados em conta os direitos das autoras e dos autores. Francisco Ebson Gomes-Sousa; José Eric da Paixão Marinho [Orgs.] Múltiplas formas das linguagens na sociedade: práticas interdisciplinares em foco.