08/05/13
CURRICULUM VITAE MARIA JOSÉ SOMERLATE BARBOSA
Office: 451 Phillips Hall Phone: (319) 335-2988 Email: [email protected]
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Higher Education
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dissertation: “Whose Voice Is It Anyway?: Literary Self-consciousness in Sterne, Machado, Lispector and Barth.” Fields of study: Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature / British and American Literature. August 1990.
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thesis: “A hora da estrela and the Tangible Reality of Fiction.” Field of study: Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature. August 1986.
B.A. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). Degree: Letters (English/Portuguese). December 1983.
Professional and Academic Positions
Institution: University of Iowa Home Department: Spanish and Portuguese Areas of teaching: Luso-Brazilian culture, literature, and Portuguese language Areas of research: Brazilian Literature and culture Professor, July 2013 -- present Associate Professor, August 2001– July 2013present Assistant Professor, August 1998 – July 2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, August 1997 – July 1998 Affiliated Faculty, International Studies, 2003 – present Member of the Steering Committee: a) Latin America Studies Program, 1998 – present b) Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies, 2005 - present
Institution: University of Arizona, Tucson Home Department: Spanish and Portuguese Areas of teaching: Luso-Brazilian culture, literature, and Portuguese language Areas of research: Brazilian Literature and culture Assistant Professor of Portuguese, fall 1990 – spring 1997 Affiliated Faculty: a) Latin American Interdisciplinary Graduate Program b) Comparative Culture and Literary Studies c) Women’s Studies
Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Romance Languages) Graduate Teaching Assistant of Portuguese, fall 1984 – summer 1990 Barbosa 2
Administrative Experience