Portuguese In The America Series
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Founded in 1996, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture is a multidisciplinary international studies and outreach unit dedicated to the study of the language, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world.

The Center is designed to be the liaison between the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and other institutions involved in Lusophone studies, in general, and Portuguese studies, in particular, both abroad and in the United States.

The Center aims to develop pedagogical materials to aid in the teaching and learning of the Portuguese language and cultures at all levels of education, and supports the development and dissemination of knowledge regarding the Portuguese speaking communities in the United States.

The Center also promotes outreach efforts in areas such as, but not limited to, the arts, education, economic development, health and politics related to the Portuguese-speaking communities of the United States.

latest publications


Portuguese in the Americas Series: Two Portuguese-American Plays

Portuguese in the Americas Series
Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature
 Reinaldo Silva

 

Vitorino Nemesio and The Azores 

Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 12.
The Other Nineteenth Century

 

Chaos and Splendor & Other Essays 

Adamastor Book Series 2
Producing Presences
Branching Out From Gumbrecht's Work
Victor K. Mendes
João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Editors

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Afterword

upcoming events


bullet Lecture: "Saudade and Its Aftermath: The Portuguese in New Bedford, Twenty Years Later."
Dates: May 13, 2008; 5:00
Location: Foster Administration Building, Board of Trustees Room

 

Antonio Vieira Culture*Park to perform Through a Portagee Gate
Dates: May 17, 18, 2008
Location: Cambridge and Fall River, Massachusetts

 

bullet For more information on these and other activities of the Center, click here.

 

announcements

 

Dr. Bela Feldman-Bianco

bullet Visiting Endowed Chair Professor in Portuguese Studies teaches course at UMD

bullet 15th Annual Summer Program in Portuguese

bullet President of Portuguese Republic visits UMass Dartmouth's Center for Portuguese Studies

bullet UMass Dartmouth hires faculty pair for Portuguese-American studies.
By Standard-Times.

bullet UMass Dartmouth Appoints Two New Professors in Portuguese-American Studies

bullet UMass Dartmouth, Millennium bcpbank announce partnership in Portuguese Studies

bullet Launching of the book, Vitorino Nemésio and the Azores

bullet Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies

bullet Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies course at UMD

bullet The recently-established Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives has received a donation of the literary papers of late California author Alfred Lewis, one of the most important Portuguese-American writers of the 20th century.
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