REX P. NIELSON Curriculum Vitae (updated May 2021) CONTACT INFORMATION Address: 3149 JFSB, Spanish and Portuguese Department Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602 Office: 801.422.2176 Email:
[email protected] PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2017–present Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Brigham Young University Affiliate faculty member: Global Women’s Studies; Latin American Studies; Africana Studies; European Studies 2011–2017 Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Brigham Young University 2010–2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Brigham Young University 2009 Visiting Teaching Assistant, Romance Studies, Harvard University 2005–2009 Adjunct Instructor, Literary and Cultural Studies, Bryant University EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University 2007 A.M., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University 2004 M.A., Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University 2002 B.A., Comparative Literature and Portuguese, Brigham Young University Magna cum laude and University Honors RESEARCH INTERESTS Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture; Ecocriticism/Environmental Humanities; Masculinity and Gender Studies; Digital Humanities; Language and Literature Pedagogy in Higher Education; Translation Studies RESEARCH Guest Editor of Journal 2018 Co-edited with Jeremy Lehnen. Special Issue on Luso-Masculinities. Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2018. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles 2021 “Vulnerability, Resistance, and the Street in the Work of Machado de Assis.” Forthcoming at Luso-Brazilian Review. 2021 “Nefarious Agents of Ecological Collapse: ‘Os fazedores de desertos’ by Euclides da Cunha.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 291–311. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa017 2020 “A resistência ao autoritarismo patriarcal e político em Armadilha para Lamartine de Carlos & Carlos Sussekind.” Revista Iberoamericana, vol.