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The School of Bossa Nova Performance

Please enjoy this five-minute edited video from a longer concert organized by Mario Higa's Portuguese students from PGSE 0399 The School of Bossa Nova. Prof. Higa trained the students in the class and they were able to present the history of the genre and perform the songs in Portuguese. The performance was packed with 133 members in the audience.

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Fernando Rocha obtained a Master's and a PhD degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He also holds a Master's degree in Letters (Brazilian Literature and Literary Theory) from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Prof. Rocha just finished a book manuscript on Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos. His present research interests focus on the writings of subalterns in Brazil and on the intersections between voice and vocal performance and literature. He has articles published in journals such as Luso-Brazilian Review and ArtCultura.

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Prof. Fernando Rocha

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Subaltern Writings: Readings on Graciliano Ramos's Novels

(New York: Peter Lang, 2013)

Prof. Juana Gamero de Coca

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Sexualidad violencia y cultura

(Ediciones Desde Abajo, 2013)

Prof Ricardo Chávez Castañeda

La niña del Derosipam

(Editorial Ink - November 23, 2017)

http://editorial-ink.com/libros/la-nina-del-derosipam/

Prof. Irina Feldman

Rethinking Community From Peru
(U Pittsburgh P, 2014)

Mario Higa

O Hóspede

(Portuguese Brazilian 2018)

Prof. Enrique García

The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics

(U Pittsburgh P, 2017)

Prof. Gloria Estela González Zenteno

(Cynren Press, 2022) Arribada

(Cynren Press, 2022)

Prof. Nicolas Poppe

Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Sound Cinema in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2021)

Alton's Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the

Emergence of Industrial Sound Cinema in Latin America

(SUNY Press, 2021)

Prof. Patricia Saldarriaga (co-author Emy Manini)

(Rutgers U.P. 2022) Saldarriaga, Patricia & Emy Manini.

Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies.

Rutgers U.P., 2022.

Prof. Luis Castañeda

Mi madre soñaba en francés

(Alfaguara 2018)

Prof. Patricia Saldarriaga (co-ed)

Sor Juana Inés de la Crus e Portugal

(CHAM e Casa da América Latina, 2019)

Prof. Irina Feldman

Latin American Marxisms in Context

Past and Present

(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019)

Prof. Irina Feldman

RESISTIENDO AL IMPERIO

(Política internacional, 2019)

Prof. Luis Castañeda

El imperio de las mareas

(Alfaguara 2019)

Prof. Daniel Silva

Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire’s Individuals

(Routledge 2015)

Prof. Nicolas Poppe

Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960

(Indiana University Press, 2016)

Prof. Mario Higa

Matéria Lítica: Drummond, Cabral, Neruda e Paz

(Ateliê Editorial, 2016)

Prof. Marta Manrique Gómez

Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth Century Spain

(Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)