Director:  LUCI MOREIRA
Associate Professor, College of Charleston; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Director:  REGINA SANTOS
Ph.D. in Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


 
Writer in Residence

ROBERTO DAMATTA , Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro; Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University


 
Scholar in Residence

ALBERTO R. MONTEIRO , Professor, Universidade do Vale da Paraíba, São Paulo; Ph.D. in Biology, Universidad de Navaja, Pamplona, Spain; Post-Doctorate, Louisiana State University


Faculty


CAMILA ALVAHYDO , M.A. in Romance Languages, University of Georgia

LEILA DA COSTA, M.A. in Linguistics, University of Michigan

MERCIA FLANNERY, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Georgetown University

ANTONIO LADEIRA, Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures, University of California at Santa Barbara


Administrative Staff

SANDRA BONOMO , Portuguese School Coordinator

LUCAS MOREIRA , Bilingual Assistant, College of Charleston


Interns

ROBERTA BINS ELY , Universidad Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, and Pontificia Universidade Católica - Porto Alegre, RS

SAMUEL BURLAMARQUI, Instituto de Ensinos Superiores da Amazônia, Belém, Pará


Guests

JEFF CASON, Associate Professor of Political Science and Dean of International Studies, Middlebury College; "Contemporary Politics of Brazil"

TONI COWLES, Certified OPI Tester, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Recipient of the 2007 Middlebury College Baker Fellowship, "The Impact of Target Country vs. Home Country Immersion Programs on Intermediate Second Language Learners"

ROBERTO DAMATTA, "The Symbolism of Animals in Brazil and in the United States"

GREG EWING, Supervisor, ESOL and FL Program, Cobb County School District, Georgia

CHERIE HAMILTON, Writer, "Cuisine in the Lusophone World"

RUSSELL HAMILTON, Professor of Lusophone Studies (Emeritus), Vanderbilt University;  "CPLP: Eight Countries Divided and United by the Same Language"

RICHARD MILLER, Ph.D. in Music, Catholic University of America; "Raízes da Africa. na Música Brasileira: O Choro, O Violão, e Villa-Lobos"

ALBERTO R. MONTEIRO, "The Amazon Rain Forest and its Sustainability"

CLAUDIA MONTEIRO, Universidade de Uberaba; "Plastic Arts of Brazil: The Week of Modern Art in Brazil"

LUCIA RIBEIRO, Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi "Salvador, the Magic Land"

SIMONE SILVA, University of Oregon; "The Bicentennial of the Royal Family in Brazil: Consequences to the Brazilian Society"