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LORRAINE LEU

Address: Department of Spanish and Portuguese &

Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies,

The University of Texas at Austin,

150 W. 21st Street, Stop B3700

Austin, TX 78712.

Email: Lorraine.Leu@austin.utexas.edu

Profile summary:

• Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) & Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. Appointed 01/01/11.

• Fellow of the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professorship (2015-18).

• Editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

• Program co-chair, LASA Congress, Boston 2019.

Previous Appointments:

2007-09 Chair, Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Bristol University, England.

2007-10 Associate Professor, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Bristol University.

2002-07 Assistant Professor, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Bristol University.

2000-01 Lecturer in Spanish & Portuguese & Coordinator, Centre for Brazilian Studies, Middlesex University, London.

Academic qualifications:

1996-2000 PhD, King’s College, University of London, Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies.

Major field: Literary & Cultural Studies.

1993-1995 MA with Distinction in Latin American Area Studies (emphasis Literary & Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Anthropology), Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.

1988-1992 BA with honors in Spanish & Portuguese (emphasis Literary & Cultural Studies), King’s College, University of London, Departments of Spanish & Spanish American Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies.

Publications:

Authored books:

Defiant Geographies: Race, Ethnicity, and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro. Manuscript currently under review with the University of Pittsburg Press.

Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration

of Tradition (Aldershot & Burlington, VT: Ashgate: 2006).

Edited book:

Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader, with Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig et al (Routledge: New York: 2017)

Articles and Chapters in Books:

"Eradicating blackness from the ideal city: Urbanization, global spectacle, and Brazil's Centenary". In Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Julia O’Donnell, eds., Urban Latin America: Image, Words, and the Built Environment. New York: Routledge: publication expected Winter 2017.

"Urbanization, ruination, and refusal: Racialized geographies in 1920s Rio de Janeiro", Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 25.1 (2016): 19-34.

“Defiant geographies: black spaces of cultural expression in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro”, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities, 9.2 (2014), 177-194.

“Soundtrack to Roguery: Music and Malandragem in the City”. In Lisa Shaw and Robert Stone, eds., Screening Song in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2012), 264-282.

“Performing Race and Gender in Brazil: Karim Ainouz’s Madame Satã”, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, 4.1 (2010-11), 73-95.

“Spaces of remembrance and representation in the city: José Padilha’s Bus 174”, Luso-Brazilian Review, 45.2, Winter 2008-9, 177-189.

“Drug traffickers and the contestation of space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro”, E-Compós – Revista da Escola de Comunicações, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 11.1 (2008), online journal.

“Brazilianism, Culture and Consumption in the United Kingdom”, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. LXXXIV, 4-5 (2007), 645-652.

“Music and National Culture: Pop Music and Resistance in Brazil”, Portuguese Cultural Studies, inaugural issue (Winter 2006), 36-44.

“A imprensa e o espetáculo da violência no Rio de Janeiro contemporâneo”, in Micael Herschmann (ed.) Comunicação, Cultura e Consumo, (Editora Epapers: Rio de Janeiro: 2005).

“The Press and the Spectacle of Violence in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro”, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 13.3 (2004), 343-355.

“Fantasia e fetiche: consumindo o Brasil na Inglaterra”, Eco-Pós, Revista da Escola de Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 7 (2004), 13-17.

“Language and Memory in Popular Song: Brazil’s Caetano Veloso”, Journal of Romance Studies (Vol. 3.1, Spring 2003), pp. 343-355.

“Raise Yuh Hand, Jump Up and Get On Bad: New Developments in Soca Music in Trinidad”, Latin American Music Review, 21.1: Spring/Summer 2000, pp. 45-58.

Reviews & Other Publications:

Entries on Brazilian cinema in the Directory of World Cinema: Brazil, eds. Natalia Pinazza & Louis Bayman (Intellect: Bristol: 2013).

Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music, T. Livingston-Isenhour & T. Caracas García (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press: 2005) for the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 84.2, 2007.

The Social History of the Brazilian Samba, Shaw, L. (Aldershot: Ashgate: 1999) for the Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, June, 2000.

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus, (orgs.) Robert M. Levine & José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick: 1999), for Portuguese Studies, October, 2000.

33 entries on literature, popular music and art in the Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Latin American & Caribbean Culture, eds. Mike González, Dan Balderston & Ana López (Routledge: London: 2000).

Translation from Spanish & Portuguese of the manuscript of Modernity in Latin America, ed. Vivian Schelling (Verso: London: 2000).

Research Awards, Grants & Fellowships:

• Appointed a fellow of the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professorship for 3 years from Fall 2015.

• COLA College Research Fellowship for a semester’s leave, awarded December 2014 for Spring 2016.

• LLILAS, UT Faculty Led Research Initiative Funding, 2014-15.

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Fall 2010.

• Bristol University Research Fellowship, 2009/2010 session.

• British Academy Research Grant, 2007.

• Bristol Institute for Research in the Arts & Humanities Grants, 2003, 2006/7.

• Bristol University Research Fellowship, 2004/2005 session.

• British Academy Conference Organization Grant, 2004.

Scholarly Presentations in the last 5 years:

• “Race, Visuality, and Urban Space in Rio de Janeiro”, Configuraciones culturales de lo político, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Autónoma de México, June 15-16, 2017.

• “Eradicating blackness from the ideal city: the Centenary World Fair”, LASA Congress, Lima, April 30, 2017.

• “Mega-events, ruination, and the workings of empire in the 21st century: The dispossession of Vila Autódromo favela”, November 5, 2015. 20 Years of the Brazil Center, LLILAS, UT Austin.

• “Urbanization, ruination, and refusal: Racialized geographies in Rio de Janeiro”, invited talk University of California Santa Cruz, December 7, 2015.

• "Defiant Geographies: Race, Ethnicity, and Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro", 9th APSA Congress, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Oct 23-25, 2014.

• "Defiant Geographies: Race, Ethnicity, Class and a Destroyed Community in 1920s Rio de Janeiro", BRASA 12th International Congress, King's College, University of London, England, Aug 20-23, 2014.

• "Showcasing Rio: Urbanization, race/ethnicity, and global spectacle", invited talk, University of Zurich, Switzerland, December 13, 2013.

• “Race, migration, and urban space in Brazil, possibilities for inter-disciplinary research”, University of Brasília, June 3rd, 2013.

• “Defiant geographies: black spaces of cultural expression in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro”, 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of West Georgia, November 1-3, 2012.

• “Eradicating blackness in the ideal city: Rio de Janeiro’s International Exposition of 1922”, BRASA 11th International Congress, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sep 6-8, 2012.

• “The Killing of Place: 1920s Rio de Janeiro and Urbanization by Elimination”, Geography Department, UT, April 20, 2012.

• “Cinema and the favela as racialized space”, LASA San Francisco, 23-26 May 2012.

• “Drug traffickers and the Contestation of Space in Rio de Janeiro”, Republics of Fear: Understanding Endemic Violence in Latin America Today, LLILAS, UT Austin, March 4-5, 2010.

Conference organization:

• Co-organizer, international conference, "Migration, Race & Urban Space in Brazil", UT Austin, Nov 7-8, 2014.

• Co-organizer, colloquium on Migration, Race & Urban Space, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 3, 2013.

• Co-organizer, Lozano Long International Conference, “Refashioning Blackness: Combating Racism in the Americas”, UT Austin, February 20-22, 2013.

• Organizer, international conference, “The Future of Latin American Cultural Studies”, UT Austin, March 30-31, 2012.

Service to the profession:

• Program co-chair, Latin American Studies Association, Boston 2019.

• One of 7 editors of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies since 2000.

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Eco-Pós, the communication studies journal published by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Ângulo, the journal of literature and culture published by the University of São Paulo.

• Member of the Laboratório da Escola de Comunicação e Cultura, a project of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro dedicated to undertaking critical readings of the media’s representation of minorities and to facilitating more self-representations by favela dwellers in the mass media.

• Peer reviewer for journals including Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Ethnomusicology Forum, Luso-Brazilian Review, Music, Sound and the Moving Image, New Cinemas, Portuguese Studies.

• Expert referee for the Leverhulme Trust, one of the largest research charities in the UK.

• Proposal reviewer for Verso Books; Routledge Colloquials Language Series.

• Consultant expert for BBC Bristol, Channel 4 Television, the Jornal do Brasil.

Teaching:

Graduate:

Brazilian Cultural Theory

Brazilian Urban Studies

Cinema, Culture & Identity in Brazil

Contemporary Portuguese Literature

LLILAS Proseminar

Undergraduate:

Brazilian Cinema

Brazilian Popular Music

Modern Brazil

Rio de Janeiro: Society & Culture

Race and Visual Culture in Latin America

Current Doctoral advisees:

Alida Perrine: Black women’s cultural activism in Brazil

Jessica Carey-Webb: Gendered cartographies of the Amazon

Catalina Iannone: Migrants from the global south and the production of space in Lisboa and Madrid

Célia Cordeiro: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Crossings: Portuguese Women's Mobility and the Reinvention of Cultural Spaces (1950 to present)

Sarah Nicholus: Queer geographies, tourism, and neoliberal development in Natal, Northeast Brazil

Ricardo Velasco

Trujillo (LLILAS) Transitional justice and memory in Colombia’s Pacific coast

MA advisee, LLILAS:

Joshua Reason: Reforming Urban Space to Support Black Communities in Salvador, Bahia

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