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Jorge Vital de Brito Moreira
Oshkosh, WI Born: |
Biography:
Jorge Vital de Brito Moreira is a professor, cultural critic, and musician from Brazil with Wisconsin connections. He studied Social Sciences at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBa) where he graduated in 1971. He did Graduate Studies in Sociology and Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) where he received an Honorable Mention for his thesis (1985) on the critical thought of Spanish Philosopher, Manuel Sacristan Luzon. During his doctoral studies at the UNAM, he taught courses on Political Economy. He completed his Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. thesis Military Dictorship and Aesthetic Opposition: Marianism as a Mode of Cultural Resistance in the Fiction of Antonio Callado (1996). He has been teaching language, literature (Brazilian and Latin American) and cultural studies at U.S. universities such as University of California San Diego (La Jolla), University of Minnesota, Washington University (MO), Lawrence University and University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh). He has published essays on Brazilian and Latin American writers such as Antonio Callado, Guimaraes Rosa, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, among others in U.S. and Brazilian journals such as Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Brazilian Studies Association (BRAZA); Nexos; Ideacao; Sociedade e Agricultura and others. He is the author of two essays (on Mae Menininha de Gantois and Benedita da Silva) for the well-known book Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women, published in the U.S. by Greenwood Press.
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Works by Jorge Vital del Brito Moreira:
Jorge Vital de Brito Moreira is a professor, cultural critic, and musician from Brazil with Wisconsin connections. He studied Social Sciences at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBa) where he graduated in 1971. He did Graduate Studies in Sociology and Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) where he received an Honorable Mention for his thesis (1985) on the critical thought of Spanish Philosopher, Manuel Sacristan Luzon. During his doctoral studies at the UNAM, he taught courses on Political Economy. He completed his Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. thesis Military Dictorship and Aesthetic Opposition: Marianism as a Mode of Cultural Resistance in the Fiction of Antonio Callado (1996). He has been teaching language, literature (Brazilian and Latin American) and cultural studies at U.S. universities such as University of California San Diego (La Jolla), University of Minnesota, Washington University (MO), Lawrence University and University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh). He has published essays on Brazilian and Latin American writers such as Antonio Callado, Guimaraes Rosa, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, among others in U.S. and Brazilian journals such as Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Brazilian Studies Association (BRAZA); Nexos; Ideacao; Sociedade e Agricultura and others. He is the author of two essays (on Mae Menininha de Gantois and Benedita da Silva) for the well-known book Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women, published in the U.S. by Greenwood Press.
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Works by Jorge Vital del Brito Moreira:
- Memorial da Ilha e Outras Ficcoes, published 2007
