Leslie H Damasceno, Assoc. Professor of The Practice of Portuguese and Theater Studies
| Office Location: | 107 Language Building |
| Office Phone: | 919 660 3120, 919 660 3100 |
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| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies/~ljhd |
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- Portugue 113s.01, Intro to brazilian literature
Synopsis
- See instru, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 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
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Sentido, sentimento e sensibilidade do grotesco no teatro latinoamericano, edited by Leslie Damasceno, guest editor, Percevejo: Edição Especial, Teatro Latinomericano, vol. XIV (Accepted, Summer, 2008), Universidade do Rio de Janeiro .
- 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 .
- 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 (2004), Durham, NC: Duke University Press .
- 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 .
- Staging the Crisis: Utopian Ideals, Consumer Aesthetics and the Theatrical Image in Brazillian Theatre from Collor to Cardoso. (September, 2002).