RICARDO VASCONCELOS, PH.D., is a professor of Portuguese and Brazilian literature and culture, as well as the Portuguese language. His areas of research and teaching include 19th- to 21st-century Luso-Brazilian poetry and prose; representations of national identity in Luso-Brazilian cinema and music; textual scholarship; the use of multimedia in foreign language learning; and program development. He is the author of Campo de relâmpagos – Leituras do excesso na poesia de Luís Miguel Nava, among other publications. He is currently researching on topics of Luso-Brazilian modernism, anthologies of 20th-century poetry, and the redescription of Portuguese national identity in a time of financial crisis.
