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SELMA VITAL
LECTURER
       
 
Title   Professor of Portuguese
     
Degrees   MA, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
BA in Social Communication,
Universidade Metodista de São
Paulo, Brazil
     
Department   Romance Languages & Literatures
     
Mailbox   Campus Box 1077
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4
     
Phone   (314) 935-5180
     
Courses   Port 101, 102 (Beggining Portuguese)

Port 103,104 (Beggining Portuguese for Spanish Speakers)

Port 215 (Reading and Conversation)- Intermediate II
     
Research Interests   Brazilian and Portuguese fin de
siècle issues, particularly race in
Brazil and gender in Portugal.
     
Profile:   Doctoral candidate at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. Her dissertation title
is: “Machado de Assis: Preto de
Alma Branca: a complexidade das
questões étnico- raciais no
universo do conto
machadiano”.
     
Selected Publications   “Lima Barreto:
From the Margin of the Margin”,
in Cincinnati Romance Review,
Vol. 23, 2004.
     
 
     
 
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