Portuguese

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

(2014). “Portugal as Nostos Interrupted.” ellipsis 14 (in press – pagination forthcoming).

(2012). “Latent Selfhood and the Problem of Genre in Catalina de Erauso’s Historia de la Monja Alférez.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46.3: 527-546. Print.

(2012). "Espectáculos laborales: primacía de imágenes y cosificación en Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit." Nuevo texto crítico 47-48: 191-205. Print.

(2009). “Recuerdos en el espejo: memoria, ideología y agencialidad en Los cuentos del final y Alfonso y Clotilde de Carlos Manuel Varela.” Latin American Theatre Review 43.1: 61-80. Print.

Conferences

(March 23, 2013). “Dicotomías del lenguaje en Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier.” Primer Coloquio Anual Iberoamericano de Literatura, Política y Arte. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Cafornia.

(October 21, 2011). “A Thwarted Ascent: Stimmung and Worldmaking in the Poetry of Luís Vaz de Camões.” 1º Encontro Internacional de Jovens Pesquisadores da Cátedra de Cultura Portuguesa, The University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(January 6, 2011). “Latent Selfhood and the Problem of Identity in Catalina de Erauso’s Historia de la Monja Alférez.” The Republic of Letters (Stanford Humanities Center Workshop), Stanford, California.

(April 9 – 10, 2010). “Espectáculos laborales: primacía de imágenes y cosificación en Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit.” Performing Selves: Strategies and Limits. Fifth Graduate Student Colloquium, UC Berkeley Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Berkeley, California.

(August 5 – 9, 2008). “Recuerdos en el espejo: memoria, ideología y agencialidad en Los cuentos del final y Alfonso y Clotilde de Carlos Manuel Varela,” XVII Congreso Internacional de Teatro Iberoamericano y Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Editorial Experience

(October 2012 – Present). Consultant for Shmoop, a Silicon Valley education start-up devoted to developing test preparation and course materials for high school and college students written in a humorous yet comprehensive fashion.

(December 2007 – May 2009). Letras femeninas. Arizona State University. Assistant to the Editor. Edited and proofread articles submitted in Spanish, handled subscription data, collaborated with the editor, authors, and subscribers. Edited volumes 34.1, 34.2, and 35.1.

(August 2008). Frohlich, Margaret G. Framing the Margin: Nationality and Sexuality across Borders. Tempe, AZ: Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Proofread and edited.

(May – August 2005). Staff Intern – Arizona Mexico Commission – Office of the Governor. Facilitated office operations; participated in and coordinated the Biannual Plenary Session in Tucson, Arizona; researched policy issues; translated materials from English into Spanish and vice-versa.

(May 2003– May 2004). Arizona State University State Press and WebDevil (campus news publications). Wrote for the arts and culture beat, including feature stories and reviews.

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

(May 2012). Stanford University’s Graduate Research Opportunities (GRO) Fund. A grant of $3,780.00 to conduct dissertation research at the Spanish National Library in Madrid in September and October 2012.

(September 2009 – June 2014). Stanford University Fellowship. A five-year tuition waiver, stipend, and partial summer funding used to complete a doctorate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures.

(May 2006). Moeur Award. Awarded to undergraduates from Arizona State University who graduate within eight semesters with a 4.0+ GPA.

Professional Activities, Leadership, and Community Service

(July 2012 – March 2013). English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor at the Opportunity Center in Palo Alto.

(June 2011 – June 2012). Catholicism 101 leader and coordinator: a forum for discussion of topics relevant to the faith for Catholic graduate students, alumni, and young adults associated with Stanford University.

(September 2010 – June 2011). Coordinator for the Humanities Center’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Workshop.

Victoria Saramago Padua is a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. She is especially interested in 20th Century Latin American fiction, novel theory and relations between space and narrative.

Research:

20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature; comparative literature of the Americas; critical theory; philosphy and literature; Marxist cultural studies; translation.

Published work has addressed the literature of Mario Bellatin, César Aira, Clarice Lispector, João Gilberto Noll, Diamela Eltit, and Fernando Pessoa.

Selected writing and translation:

Morris, Adam. "Fair Warning: Julian Assange's Cypherpunks." The Los Angeles Review of Books. 28 April 2013.

Morris, Adam. "Whoever, Whatever: On Anonymity as Resistance to Empire." parallax 18.4 (October 2012): 106-20.

Morris, Adam. "A Departure from Reason: César Aira's The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira." The Millions 16 October 2012.

Morris, Adam. "Drone Warfare: Tiqqun, The Young-Girl and the Imperialism of the Trivial." The Los Angeles Review of Books. 30 September 2012.

Morris, Adam, and Lúcia Rosa. "Recycling Literary Culture: A Conversation with Lúcia Rosa." Public Books 18 June 2012.

Morris, Adam. "The Brazilian Bird of Prey: Four New Translations of Clarice Lispector." ZYZZYVA 5 June 2012.

Morris, Adam. "Micrometanarratives and the Politics of the Possible." CR: The New Centennial Review 11.3 (Winter 2012) 91-117.

Forthcoming:

"With My Dog-Eyes" by Hilda Hilst. Introduced and translated by Adam Morris. Excerpt in BOMB. Summer 2013.

Morris, Adam. "This Product Made From Post-Consumer Content: Narrative Recycling and New Novelistic Economies." Forthcoming in Criticism. 2013.

Morris, Adam. "Fernando Pessoa's Heteronymic Machine." Forthcoming in The Luso-Brazilian Review. Expected 2013.

Todd began his career with a BA in Spanish from Brigham Young University (Magna Cum Laude 2005) and immediately followed with an MA in Spanish Peninsular Literature (2007), also from BYU. The title of his Master's thesis is The Postmodern Spanish Hero’s Journey: Compassion and Postmodernism in Contemporary Spain. His dissertation, entitled Open Wounds: Reading Contemporary Novels of War, Repression, and Memory in Four Rural Spanish Communities, focuses on the the intersection of memory, literature, and place through a study of the reception of several contemporary novels of memory in the communities they describe. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his three children and his wife, Betty. He is also an avid runner.