Leslie H. Damasceno, Faculty

Please note: Leslie has left the "Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	011 Languages Bldg., Box 90257
Office Phone:	919-660-3120
Email Address:

Education:

PhD in Romance Linguistics and Literature	UCLA	1987
Faculdade de Letras	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	1975
Masters in Comparative Literature (French and Spanish)	San Francisco State University	1974
BA	College of William and Mary	1966

Specialties:

Portuguese
Spanish

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Sentido, sentimento e sensibilidade do grotesco no teatro latinoamericano, edited by Leslie Damasceno, guest editor, Percevejo: Edição Especial, Teatro Latinomericano, vol. XIV (Accepted, Summer, 2009), Universidade do Rio de Janeiro
2. In your face: identity, attitude and latino theatre, edited by Sónia Torres, SELLI: Anais do Seminário de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa, vol. !6 (December, 2006), pp. 59-66, Universidade Federal Fluminense Press
3. The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia:Denise Stoklos at Play with the Hysterical-Historical, in Holy Terrors! Latin American Women Perform, edited by Diana Taylor and Roslyn Costantino (Accepted, 2004), Durham, NC: Duke University Press
4. Five entries on Brazilian theatre, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture, edited by Dan Balderston, Ana Lopez and Mike Gonzalez (forthcoming 2003), Routledge Press
5. Staging the Crisis: Utopian Ideals, Consumer Aesthetics and the Theatrical Image in Brazillian Theatre from Collor to Cardoso (September, 2002)