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| Leslie H. Damasceno, Associate Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Portuguese
Please note: Leslie has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. Brazillian and Latin American Theater and Film, Brazilian Cultural Theory and Literature, and
Cultural Theater and Film Theory.
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | Faculty, Durham, NC 27708 | | Email Address: |   | - Office Hours:
- Wednesday: 1:00pm - 2:30pm & by appointment
- 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:
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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
(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, 2009), 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
(Accepted, 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)
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