Rodolfo A. Franconi
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise
Lusophone literatures and cultures,
Hispanic-American studies,
Lusophone film and television,
Adaptation studies,
Teledramaturgy
Biography
2017 Winter Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 pm, or by appointment
Education
B.A. Universidade de São Paulo
M.A. Universidade de São Paulo/Vanderbilt University
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
Taught Courses
Publications
"O olhar oblíquo: uma categoria cultural. Conceituação e exemplos." In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. Ns. 63-64. Lima-Hanover, 1st-2nd Semesters, 2006, 105-115.
"Literaturas latino-americanas nas instituições e revistas acadêmicas anglo-americanas." In Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada. N. 7 (2005) - Porto Alegre: Abralic, 2005 -v., 131-147.
"Being Brazilian in the States: Between Fiction and Reality." In "Luso-Brazilian Literaure in the U.S." Hispania. Volume 88.4 (2005), 726-732.
With Nakamura, C. & Lajoie, S. P. "The multimedia effect in electronic bilingual dictionaries: The effects of graphic representations on vocabulary acquisition of a foreign language." In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2003: "World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications." Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. (Norfolk, VA. 2005), 4319-4322.
"La carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha al Rey Don Manuel." In "El proyecto colonial y sus retóricas," Sección monográfica: Viajes y Viajeros Coloniales por las Américas. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. No. 60, 2nd semester (2004), 27-42.
Works in Progress
Brasil y América Hispana: la mirada oblicua/o olhar oblíquo: América Hispânica e Brasil. Edition and introduction to an anthology of articles on the perception of the "other next door" by Brazilian and Spanish American writers.
Selected Works & Activities
Book: Erotismo e Poder na ficção contemporânea brasileira. (São Paulo: Annablume Editora) July, 1997.
Edition: América Latina: Novas Direções em Crítica e Teoria Literárias IV (Dos estudos literários no Brasil. Sección monográfica. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. No 40, 2nd semester (1994), 7-234.
Other positions and awards
Since 1998, coordinator of the Brazilian section of Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL).
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