
Sandra Sousa, Ph.D.
Education
- Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University (2012)
- M.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University (2011)
- M.A. in Portuguese Studies from University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth (2006)
- B.A. in Portuguese Language and Culture from University of Lisbon (Portugal) (2001)
Research Interests
- Colonialism
and post-colonialism;
- Portuguese Colonial Literature;
- Race relations in Mozambique;
- War, dictatorship and
violence in contemporary Portuguese and Luso-African literature;
- Feminine
writing in Portuguese, Brazilian and African literature.
Selected Publications
Books
-
The Africas in the World and
the World in the Africas: African Literatures and Comparativism. Ed. &
Introd. Sandra Sousa & Nazir Ahmed Can. Holden, MA: Quod
Manet, 2022.
-
Portugal Segundo
os Estados Unidos da América. Dir. José Eduardo
Franco e Fátima Vieira. Cord. Sofia Araújo. Lisboa: Theya Editores, 2021.
- Visitas
a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros. Sheila Khan, Sandra Sousa, Leonor
Simas-Almeida Isabel A. Ferreira-Gould, Nazir Ahmed Can (eds.). Lisboa: Edições
Colibri, 2017.
- Ficções
do Outro: Império, Raça e Subjectividade no Moçambique Colonial. Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 2015.
Edited Editions
-
Literatura Colonial e Pós-Colonial. Portuguese
Cultural Studies. 7.2 (2022). Ed. & Intr. Sandra Sousa.
-
Literatura Colonial
Portuguesa. Portuguese Cultural Studies. 7.1 (2021). Ed. & Intr. Sandra Sousa.
- Passados antecipados, futuros empoeirados: os caminhos da ficção de
João Paulo Borges Coelho. Mulemba
10.18 (2018). Ed. Nazir Ahmed Can, Sandra Sousa, Sheila Khan e Elena
Brugioni.
Articles/Essays
-
“Não tenho nenhum lugar para onde ir”:
o deslocamento infantil The Orchard of Lost Souls de Nadifa Mohamed. Argus-a Artes y
Humanidades, XI. 43 (2022): 1-16.
- “Violências silenciadas no feminino: Uma leitura de Essa
Dama Bate Bué! de Yara Monteiro.” Mulemba 13 (especial 2021): 59-70.
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“Ambiguidades Luso-Tropicais em Rodrigues
Júnior.” Portuguese Cultural Studies 7.1 (2021): 4-16.
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“Informal lives and strategies of survival on
Mozambique’s margins: The narratives of João Paulo Borges Coelho.” Transmodernity
9.5 (2020): 23-38. [published 2021]
-
“Silenced Voices in the Feminine: a reading of
Yara Monteiro’s Essa Dama Bate Bué.” Diadorim. 22.3 (2020):
198-211. [published 2021]
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“Um “Pós-Colonial” Perdido nos Limites do Colonialismo: Henrique Galvão
e os Bichos Do Mato.” Mulemba
12.23 (2020): 16-33. [published 2021]
- “‘A
man can find a home anywhere’: African mobility and the fall of dreams in Behold
the Dreamers.” Mulemba 12.22 (2020): 78-92 [published 2021]
-
(With Gergana Vitanova, Emily Johnson, Amy
Giroux, Don Merritt) “Assessing the Impact of Game Modalities in Second
Language Acquisition: ELLE the EndLess Learner.” Journal of Universal
Computer Science 26.8 (2020): 880-903.
-
(With Ann Miller) “Reacting to the Past Mini Role
Play Games.” Journal of Faculty Development 34.3 (Sep. 2020): 71-72.
- “As mulheres brancas
dos homens da resistência afro-luso-brasileira: um olhar sobre as relações
coloniais.” Brasil Brazil 32.60 (2019): 41-60. [published January 2020]
- “The
Portuguese Colonial Press and the Estado Novo.” Diadorim 21 (Especial 2019): 57-71.
- “A
visita de Mandrake ao Porto de Jaime Ramos: intertextualidade em Um Crime Capital de Francisco José
Viegas.” Diadorim 21.1 (2019): 51-63.
- “Silêncios no feminino
no Boletim da Agência Geral das Colónias/do Ultramar.” Ex-aequo 39 (2019): 55-69.
- “The
Benefits of Role Play in Portuguese Language and Culture Classes.” Portuguese
Language Journal 12 (Fall 2018): 22-39. [Published
March 2019]
- “The
Nigerian Diaspora in the United States and Afropolitanism in Sarah Ladipo
Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream
to the Sun.” African Studies
Quarterly 18. 2(2019): 39-54.
- “Pretos e Brancos: Brito
Camacho e o Olhar Antropológico da Literatura Colonial.” Abril 10.20 (2018): 25-36.
- “Racial and Cultural
Bridges in Mia Couto’s O Outro Pé da Sereia.” Transmodernity:
Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 8.1 (2018): 63-77.
- ““Eu quero ver o Atlântico”: A ficção portuguesa “marginal” depois da revolução.” Revista Moara. 48 (2018): 157-168.
- “A Descoberta de uma Identidade Pós-Colonial em Esse Cabelo de
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.” Abril 9.18 (2017): 57-68.
- “On the Particularities of Postcolonial
Studies, or How Postcolonialism Has Become Obsolete.” Mulemba 9.16. (2017): 19-31.
- “‘Artes e Letras Coloniais/Ultramarinas’
no Boletim Geral das Colónias e do Ultramar.” Transmordernity: Journal of
Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 7.2 (2017): 56-72.
- “Quando as mulheres transgridem o espaço: João
Guimarães Rosa e Graciliano Ramos em comparação.” Signo 42. 74 (2017): 126-138.
- “Haiti and Mozambique: Postcolonial literature
in the context of combined and uneven development.” e-cadernos CES 26 (2017): 129-151.
- “E tu, que achas tu de tudo isto?”:
Colonial Women, Memory and Post-Independence in João Paulo Borges Coelho’s Rainhas da Noite.” Gragoatá. Vol 21. N.41 (2016): 830-849.
- “Now we don’t have anything”:
Remembering Angola through the lens of American missionaries.” Configurações 17 (2016): 119-137.
- "'Ursos,’
‘Palermas’ ou Soviéticos?: Socialismo e Capitalismo em AvóDezanove e o segredo do Soviético de Ondjaki.” Afro-Hispanic
Review. Volume 34, Number 1 (2016): 107-118.
- (with Tom Lewis) “Knowledge and politics across the
North/South divide.” International
Socialist Review. Issue 99. 2015-16: 77-93.
- “O Mato de Guilhermina de Azeredo: a
mulher colonizadora em Angola.” InterDISCIPLINARY
Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies. Special
Issue 4.1. Words in Exile: Poetics of Female Voices of the Portuguese-Speaking
World (2015): 31-48.
- “‘War is not measured by uniforms
or rifles’: resisting Portuguese colonial wars through “marginal” sexual
behaviors.” Transmordernity: Journal
of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2015): 57-72.
- (With Tom Lewis) “Para Além da Divisão Norte/Sul em Epistemologia
e Política Emancipatória.” Configurações 12 (2014): 29-45.
- “Da capital para o interior: a jornada de uma mulher dentro
das margens do Império Colonial Português.” Ellipsis
[Journal of the American-Portuguese Studies Association]. vol.12 (2014):
243-258.
- “João Paulo Borges Coelho e as
Contradições do Pós-colonialismo: uma análise de A Crónica da Rua 513.2.” Literatura
em Debate. v. 7, n. 13(2014): 106:121.
- “O Mato de
Guilhermina de Azeredo: ambivalência colonial no feminino.” Buala. (2013)
- “A influência do
luso-tropicalismo na literatura colonial portuguesa da década de 60: mito ou
realidade?” Revista Trama. Vol 9, nº 17, 1º semestre (2013): 153-165.
- “A conjugação do verbo odiar em O
Matador de Patrícia Melo.” Revista SOLETRAS. Nº 23 (2012): 140-154.
- “Clarice Lispector: Subsídios
para o género masculino e feminino.” Hispania. Vol 95, 2 (2012): 227-235.
- "Demarginalising Portugal’s Elderly:
Representations of Ageing in José Luís Peixoto’s Cal.” Forum for Modern Language Studies. Oxford University Press 47, 1 (2011):
210-221.
- “As contradições da escravatura na Baía do século
dezanove: Viva o Povo Brasileiro e Domingos Sodré.”
Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea 6 (2011):153-177.
- “A Importância do Espaço na Constituição do Género em O Primo Bazilio de Eça de Queiroz.” Caligrama Vol 15, N.
1 (2010): 253-278.
- “O pacto emocional em Os
Cus de Judas.” Divergencias Revista de estudios lingüísticos y
literários 1, vol. 8 (2010):
12-19.
- “‘Conheces o nome que te deram, não conheces o nome que
tens’: a questão identitária do nome próprio e a experiência nipo-brasileira em
O Sol se Põe em São Paulo de Bernardo
Carvalho.” Revista Iberoamericana
230, vol. LXXVI (2010): 187-199.
- “Portuguese
Literature.” World and Its Peoples–Europe. Vol. (Spain and Portugal). Marshall Cavendish
Reference, New York (2009).
- “Fernando Pessoa: O mistério da arte de fingir.” Romance Notes. Vol. XLVII
N.2 (2007): 225-233.
Book Sections/Chapters
-
“A figura do pai em Luanda, Lisboa,
Paraíso e Purple Hibiscus: uma história de contrastes.” The Africas in the World and
the World in the Africas: African Literatures and Comparativism. Ed. Sandra Sousa & Nazir Ahmed Can. Quod Manet, 2022: 301-321.
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“Olhares de fora para
dentro: novas configurações espácio-literárias de Luanda.” Geografias
literárias de língua portuguesa no século XXI. Ed. Maria A. Fontes, Nazir
Ahmed Can, Rita Chaves. Rome: Gruppo editoriale Tab s.r.l., 2022.155-179.
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“Ilhas, Mares e Continentes em In
Dependence de Sarah Ladipo Manyika.” Ilhas de Vozes em Reencontros
Compartilhados. Coord. Susana Antunes. Holden: Quod Manet, 2021. 465-484.
- “‘Diário do amor ausente’: Cartas da Guerra, de 1971 a
2016.” Literatura e Cinema: Diálogos
Possíveis. Ed. Petar Petrov. Lisboa: CLEPUL, Faculdade de Letras da
Universidade de Lisboa, 2021. 167-184
-
(With Gergana
Vitanova, Emily Johnson, Amy Giroux, Don Merritt) “Gameful Teaching: Exploring
Language Teacher Identity and Agency through video games.” Language Teacher
Development in Digital Contexts. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt,
eds. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022, 49-66.
- (With Leonor
Simas-Almeida) “Racial, Cultural and Emotional Crossing Paths: Mia Couto’s
Hopeful Pessimism in Terra Sonâmbula and O Outro Pé da Sereia.” Mozambique on the Move:
Challenges and Reflections. Ed. Sheila Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, Bjørn Enge
Bertelsen.Brill, 2018. 169-185
- “Bernardo Carvalho or the Truth That You Can Only Know through Fiction.” Critical Insights. Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Ipswich,
MA: Grey House Publishing, 2017. 150-162.
- “Desafiando silêncios: as ambiguidades
raciais em O Olho de Hertzog de João
Paulo Borges Coelho.” Visitas a João
Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros. Sheila Khan, Sandra
Sousa, Leonor Simas-Almeida Isabel A. Ferreira-Gould, Nazir Ahmed Can (eds.).
Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2017. 181-193.
- “Os Prémios Literários durante o Estado Novo: uma outra
História?” Prémios Literários. O Poder das Narrativas/ As Narrativas do
Poder. Orgs. Ana Gabriela Macedo, Elena Brugioni, Joana Passos. Porto: Editora
Afrontamento, 2016: 43-52.
Book Reviews
-
“Literatura Moçambicana: Trajectórias de Leitura.”
O País 20 June 2022
https://www.opais.co.mz/literatura-mocambicana-trajectorias-de-leitura/
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“Silva, Daniel F. and Lamonte Aidoo, Eds. Lusophone
African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies.
Anthem Press, 2021. 368 pp. ISBN:9781785276194.” Portuguese Cultural Studies 7.1
(2021): 76-77.
- “Zachary Kagan Guthrie.
Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in
Central Mozambique, 1940-1965. Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 2018. 225 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Paper.” African Studies Review (2020).
- “Tavares, Maria. No
Country for Nonconforming Women. Feminine Conceptions of Lusophone Africa.
Legenda, 2018.” Journal of Lusophone
Studies 4.1 (2019): 328-330.
- “Winterbottom, Tom. A Cultural
History of Rio de Janeiro After 1889. Glorious Decadence. Springer Nature:
Palgrave Mcmillan, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-3-319-31200-2.” Hispania. 101.4
(December 2018): 656-657.
- “Sadlier,
Darlene J. “The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora Seven Centuries of Literature and
the Arts. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. 314. ISBN:
978-1-4773-1148-6.” Hispania 101.1
(March 2018): 152-153.
- “‘Aries Point’, a novella by Nancy Bird.” Revista Cruce.
21
Set. 2016.
- “Sheila Khan, Portugal a lápis de
cor. A Sul de uma pós-colonialidade. (Coimbra: Almedina, 2015).” Configurações
17 (2016): 259-261.
- “Dora Nunes Gago, Travessias.
Contos Migratórios, Viseu, Edições Esgotadas, 2014.” Lisboa: CLEPUL em
Revista, nª4: 6-8.
- “Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra. White Negritude. Race, Writing, and
Brazilian Cultural Identity.” New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 194 p.” Brasil
Brazil 47 (2014): 127-129.
- “SJU→MSP: A Puerto Rican Woman in Minnesota” Centro Voices (2014).
- “Margo Milleret. Latin American women on/in stages.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. 263p.” Brasil Brazil 37 (2008): 110-114.
Miscellaneous Publications
-
“Up&Up: how to stay positive during “covid-classes” and beyond.” Faculty
Focus 20.2 (2021):15-17.
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“O sonhador de histórias e outras memórias.” Preface.
Lobo, Almiro. As formigas do Tavinho e Outras Recordações. Alcance: Maputo, 2021. 3-6.
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“Dogs, Cats
and Underwear, or How We Survived the Online Transition.” Faculty Focus 19.2.
(2020): 8-9.
- “When students build the course syllabus: the things we
learn.” Faculty Focus 18.2 (2019): 8-9.
- “Can We Keep on Dancing? Role-Play in Online Courses.”
Faculty Focus 16.3 (2017): 7-8.
- “Try Running After Work: On the
Possibilities of Active-Learning Classes.” Faculty
Focus. Vol. 15. Nº 1 (2016): 9-10.
- “From the Dark to the Light: How
Role-Play Can Transform Teaching and Learning.” Faculty Focus. Vol. 14. Nº 3 (2015): 9-10.
- “João
Dias.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed.
Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012):
75-78.
- “João
Melo.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed.
Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012):
111-115.
- “João
Paulo Borges Coelho.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African
Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol.367. New York: Gale,
Cengage Learning (2012): 25-28.
- “Lina Magaia.” Dictionary Literary Biography:
Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol. 367.
New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012): 106-110.
Awards
2021 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
2020 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
2020 Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching Award
2018 Honorable
Mention, UCF’s Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching
Courses
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
10680 |
LAS3101 |
Latin Amer Popular Culture |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
11438 |
POR3450 |
Luso-afro-brazilian Triangle |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
80975 |
LAS3002 |
Topics in Lat Am Studies |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
81154 |
LAS4023 |
African Caribbean Experience |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Session |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
51383 |
LAS3320 |
Brazilian Culture |
Web-Based (W) |
B |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
11005 |
LAS3002 |
Topics in Lat Am Studies |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
10701 |
LAS3101 |
Latin Amer Popular Culture |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
19473 |
POR3450 |
Luso-afro-brazilian Triangle |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
81041 |
LAS3002 |
Topics in Lat Am Studies |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
81252 |
LAS4023 |
African Caribbean Experience |
Web-Based (W) |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Course Number |
Course |
Title |
Mode |
Session |
Date and Time |
Syllabus |
50717 |
LAS3320 |
Brazilian Culture |
Web-Based (W) |
A |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
50660 |
LAS4910 |
Las Capstone |
Web-Based (W) |
C |
|
Unavailable |
No Description Available |
Updated: Jul 1, 2022