Lúcia Sá, Associate Professor

Building 260, Room 225
650 723 4921
lusa@stanford.edu

Professor Sa teaches Brazilian and Spanish American literatures. She is the author of Rainforest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin-American Culture (Minnesota University Press, 2004), and has published several articles on Brazilian poetry and fiction, Peruvian fiction, censorship in Brazil, and Brazilian popular culture.

Interests

The intertextual relationships between indigenous narratives and 20th-century literature in Brazil and Spanish America, cultural representations of urban life in São Paulo and Mexico City, the literary shaping of a national discourse in Brazil, discourses of identity in Latin America, Brazilian avant-garde poetry, and Brazilian popular cultures

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, 1997

M.A. and B.A., Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Current Courses

Reading the Rain Forest
Writing in the City: Latin American Urban Fiction
Avant Garde Poetry in Brazil: Modernismo and After

Selected Publications

Books:
2004	Rain Forest Literatures: Indigenous Texts and Latin American Culture. University of Minnesota Press. 325 pp.
Forthcoming	Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo. Under contract, Routledge Press. Investigates how contemporary cultural productions re-work inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world.
In progress	From cortiço to favela: spatial inequality in Brazilian fiction. An analysis of urban space in several Brazilian works, ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and from canonical to popular.
Editions:
Forthcoming	Euclides da Cunha, At the Margins of History: Amazon Essays. Under Contract, Oxford University Press.
	Aluísio Azevedo, Os Demônios. Under contract, Editora Martins Fontes.
Articles:
Forthcoming	“História, Cosmogonia e Indigenismo na Obra de Márcio Souza ”. Cadernos de Literatura Brasileira: Márcio Souza. São Paulo: Instituto Moreira Sales.
2004	“A Hora da Estrela e o mal estar das elites”. Estudos de Literatura Contemporânea. 49-65
2003	"Meninos, eu vi: a velhice indígena em 'Y-Juca-Pyrama' e Maíra". Maria José Somerlate Barbosa (ed.) Passo e Compasso: nos Ritmos do Envelhecer. Porto Alegre: Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. 37-50
2002	“Germans and Indians in South America: ethnography and the idea of text”. A Symposium on Myth. Ed. Greg Schrempp. Indiana University Press. 62-71 "Tricksters e Mentirosos que Abalaram a Literatura Nacional: as Narrativas de Akúli e Mayuluaípu". Macunaíma e Jurupari: Cosmogonias Ameríndias. Ed. Sérgio Luiz Medeiros. São Paulo: Perspectiva. 245-259 "A Lenda do Jurupari: texto sagrado ou fruto da imaginação de littérateurs?". Macunaíma e Jurupari: Cosmogonias Ameríndias. Ed. Sérgio Luiz Medeiros. São Paulo: Perspectiva. 347-358
2001	2001 "Brazil". Censorship: an International Encyclopedia. Vol. I. Ed. Derek Jones. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 282 - 286
	"Chico Buarque de Hollanda". Censorship: an International Encyclopedia. Vol. I. Ed. Derek Jones. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 360 - 361
2000	“Índia Romântica. Brancos Realistas”. Taunay, Alfredo de. Ierecê a guaná Ed. Sérgio Luiz Medeiros. São Paulo: Iluminuras

Complete List of Publications

Current Projects

Professor Sa's research interests include the intertextual relationships between indigenous narratives and 20th-century literature in Brazil and Spanish America, cultural representations of urban life in São Paulo and Mexico City, the literary shaping of a national discourse in Brazil, discourses of identity in Latin America, Brazilian avant-garde poetry, and Brazilian popular cultures.

Professional Activities

She has recently been awarded a John Philip Coghlan Fellowship by the School of Humanities and has received the Dean's Fellowship Award for outstanding young scholars.

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