UWRF Language Matters Presentation
The Sound and Story of Brazilian Portuguese
Language Matters - The Sound and Story of Brazilian Portuguese, by Dr. Sophia Beal, University of Minnesota
Monday, Sep 26, 2016, 03:30 PM
St. Croix Room (321) UC
Sophia Beal
Sophia Beal is the author of Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and co-editor (along with Bruce Robbins and Michael Rubenstein) of Infrastructuralism, a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies published in 2015. Her articles related to Brazilian fiction and urbanism have appeared in the Luso-Brazilian Review, Romance Notes, Hispania, ellipsis, Brasil-Brazil, Estudos de Literatur Brasileira Contemporânea, Revista Escritos, and elsewhere. She earned her PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Tulane University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Language Matters: A Professional Development Series
Language Matters is a series of presentations and discussions on issues regarding second language teaching and learning. The goal of Language Matters is for faculty, staff, and students to share their experiences, expertise, and knowledge.