Dear friends of Portuguese Studies at UMass Lowell,
The Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, in partnership with the departments of English and Cultural Studies, invites you to three events in April dedicated to Portuguese literature, Brazilian culture, and Portuguese-American literature. The events are free and open to the public.
This week, on Wednesday, April 2 at 11 a.m., we continue the Center’s lecture series with a talk on Pessoa and Shakespeare by George Monteiro, Professor Emeritus of English and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. (download event flyer)
On April 16 at noon we will host an outdoor performance of capoeira by the Associação de Capoeira Mandingueiros dos Palmares (ACMP). The event will be at 12:00 p.m. at the O’Leary Library Quad. (download event flyer)
On April 28 we welcome Katherine Vaz, the most prominent Portuguese-American fiction writer today, who will discuss her work and read from her forthcoming novel, Below the Salt. The event is at 7:00 p.m. at the ICC. (download event flyer)
These three events help us launch the Portuguese program at UMass Lowell, as the Department of Cultural Studies will offer Portuguese language and culture courses in Academic Year 2014-15, with the aim of eventually establishing a minor and a Bachelor of Arts in Portuguese.
The creation of a Portuguese program at UMass Lowell has greatly benefited from the the leadership of Chancellor Marty Meehen, Provost Ahmed Abdelal, Dean Luis M. Falcon, and Department Chair Carole Salmon, with support from Elisia and Mark Saab and Luis Pedroso, whose generous gifts in 2013 contributed to establishing the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research (http://www.uml.edu/
Frank F. Sousa, PhD
Professor of Portuguese, Department of Cultural Studies
Director, Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research
UMASS LOWELL
Coburn Hall 108
850 Broadway Street
Lowell, MA, 01854
Best wishes e saudações amigas, —Frank
Frank F. Sousa, PhD
Professor of Portuguese, Department of Cultural Studies
Director, Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research
UMASS LOWELL
Coburn Hall 108
850 Broadway Street
Lowell, MA, 01854
Frank F. Sousa is professor of Portuguese in the Department of Cultural Studies and founding director of the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture & Research at UMass Lowell. He is the author of O Segredo de Eça (Edições Cosmos, 1996), an often-cited book on Eça de Queirós, Portugal’s foremost writer of the nineteenth century. He is presently working on a critical edition of Eça’s A cidade e as serras, to be published by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, Portugal’s leading academic publisher, and is under contract for a second single-author monograph on Eça de Queirós with É Realizações Editora, São Paulo.
He was founding director (1998-2014) of Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, a partner of the University Press of New England. At the same press he was also general editor of the Portuguese in the Americas Series, 2003-2014, and the Adamastor Series, 2011-2014. He has twice been a Fulbright Scholar at the National Library in Lisbon, Portugal.
Before being hired by UMass Lowell in January 2014, he was at Umass Dartmouth, where he proposed and led the campaigns to create the Summer Program in Portuguese (1994), the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture (1996), and the Department of Portuguese (2000), the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies (2001), the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives (2005-09), and the Portuguese-American Newspaper Digitization Initiative (2007-09). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (now MassHumanites), 2003-09, and was designated a Comendador da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique by the Government of Portugal in 1997 and awarded the Medalha de Mérito by the Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in 2010.
He was founding director (1998-2014) of Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, a partner of the University Press of New England. At the same press he was also general editor of the Portuguese in the Americas Series, 2003-2014, and the Adamastor Series, 2011-2014. He has twice been a Fulbright Scholar at the National Library in Lisbon, Portugal.
Before being hired by UMass Lowell in January 2014, he was at Umass Dartmouth, where he proposed and led the campaigns to create the Summer Program in Portuguese (1994), the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture (1996), and the Department of Portuguese (2000), the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies (2001), the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives (2005-09), and the Portuguese-American Newspaper Digitization Initiative (2007-09). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (now MassHumanites), 2003-09, and was designated a Comendador da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique by the Government of Portugal in 1997 and awarded the Medalha de Mérito by the Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in 2010.
