Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Brazil Initiative

Bate Papo Político with Kathryn Sánchez

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Kim Koo Library, Third Floor, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street

Refreshments provided.

Please join the Brazil Initiative for the spring Bate Papo Político series with Prof. Kathryn Sánchez (U Wisconsin, Madison).

O estado da democracia no Brasil: Indigenous Movements & Mobilization through Art & Culture

The Bate Papo Político will be in Portuguese.

Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez is a professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her main areas of research and teaching are the cultural and literary representation of race and ethnicity, Portuguese literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and performance in transatlantic context, Portuguese-speaking Africa, and the Portuguese diaspora. Her first book, Utopias Desmascaradas: O Mito do Bom Selvagem e a Procura do Homem Natural na Obra de Almeida Garrett was published by the Portuguese national press, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, Lisbon, 2008, and her second monograph, Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnatioal Stardom, by Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. Her critical edition of Eça de Queirós’s translation of Philidor (a bilingual text) was published by the Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda in 2021. She was the invited editor for Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, “The Other 19th Century” (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 2007), co-edited (with Severino Albuquerque) Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Performing Arts (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) and co-editedTransatlantic Dialogues: Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis (University of Coimbra, 2017). She is the executive editor of the Luso-Brazilian Review and edits a book series at Vanderbilt University Press, “Performing Latin-American and Caribbean Identities”. Since 2018, she is an affiliated member of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Faculdade de Letras at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez é professora titular de estudos portugueses e brasileiros na Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison (USA). As suas áreas principais de pesquisa são a representação cultural e literária da raça e da etnicidade, narrativa dos séculos dezenove e vinte da literatura portuguesa, e a representação performática de intercâmbios transatlânticos, de África lusófona e da diáspora. O seu primeiro livro Utopias Desmascaradas: O Mito do Bom Selvagem e a Procura do Homem Natural na Obra de Almeida Garrett foi publicado na Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 2008, e o seu segundo livro, Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp and Transnational Stardom, na Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. A sua edição crítica da tradução de Eça de Queirós Philidor (texto bilingue) foi publicado pela Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda em 2021. Ela foi editora convidada de Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, “The Other 19th Century” (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 2007) e co-editora com Severino Albuquerque de uma coletânea de ensaios Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Performing Arts (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) e co-editora deTransatlantic Dialogues: Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis (University of Coimbra, 2017). Ela é a editora executiva da revista Luso-Brazilian Review e editora de uma série de publicações na Vanderbilt University Press, “Performing Latin-American and Caribbean Identities”. Desde 2018, é membro colaborador do Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.