Fagundes, Francisco
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Professor of Portugese, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Humanities & Fine Arts
Last Name
Fagundes
First Name
Francisco
Discipline
Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Expertise
Contemporary Portuguese Poetry and Short Story; Interrelations of the Arts; Lusophone African Literature; Representations of Orality in Literature; Literature of the Portuguese Diaspora; Practice of Autobiography, short story crónica, and short narrative in general; the works of Jorge de Sena, Vitorino Nemésio, and Fernando Pessoa.
Introduction
Born in the Azores, Portugal, emigrated to the US in 1963. Lived in California for 14 years; has resided in Amherst, MA for 30 years. Has taught Spanish and Portuguese language and literatures at the undergraduate level; Portuguese, Lusophone African, and Brazilian literatures at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and courses in Portuguese- and English-language literature of the Portuguese diaspora in the US. Literary critic, autobiographer, short story writer, and translator.