Leslie H Damasceno, Faculty

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

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• PORTUGUE 49S.01, FIRST YEAR SEMINAR PORTUGUESE Synopsis

  Keohane 4B 402 SEM, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• PORTUGUE 113S.01, INTRO TO BRAZILIAN LITERATURE Synopsis

  Languages 109, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• THEATRST 129S.02, SP TOP LIT/HST/THEO/CRIT

  Perkins 2-070, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• SPANISH 142S.01, SPANISH LITERATURE (TOP) Synopsis

  Perkins 2-070, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• THEATRST 101S.01, ACTING GROTESQUE Synopsis

  Perkins 2-071, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• ROMST 150S.01, READING THEATER:ACTING GROTESQ Synopsis

  Perkins 2-071, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• PORTUGUE 202S.01, DOCUMENTNG BRAZIL/FILM/FICTION Synopsis

  Perkins 2-059, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

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

Research Interests:

Current projects: Research for a book on traditions of the grotesque in Latin American theatre.

Brazillian and Latin American Theater and Film, Brazilian Cultural Theory and Literature, and Cultural Theater and Film Theory.

Recent 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)