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Room 618, Sproul Hall
UC Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-0835 Undergrad phone
(530) 752-5799 Grad phone
(530) 752-8630 fax

 
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Robert Newcomb

Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies
Ph.D., Brown University

Email: rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu
Office: 610 Sproul Hall
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Curriculum Vita (PDF)


Research Areas

Comparative Luso-Hispanic studies; Luso-Brazilian literature and culture; the essay, theory, and criticism; iberianism, theories of history; Lusophone poetry; 19th and 20th centuries.


Current Projects

Counterposing Nossa and Nuestra América: This book project considers the ways in which Brazilian and Spanish American essayists (Nabuco, Rodó, Reyes, Buarque) have examined and challenged Brazil's relationship to the idea of Latin America. Further, it argues for the importance of sustained critical engagement between the fields of Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic studies.

Iberianist Dialogues and Disjunctions: Debating Luso-Hispanic relations in late 19th century Portugal and Spain: This long-term research project focuses on comparative analyses of the essayistic and critical work of Antero de Quental, J.P. de Oliveira Martins, Juan Valera and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, and presents iberianism as a critical tool for reimagining ideas of “Spain” and “Iberia.”


Research Publications

"Under the Sign of an Evil Power: Jacob Burckhardt and Alfredo Bosi." ellipsis (forthcoming)

"Um Programa Para Toda a Vida: Uma Entrevista com Alfredo Bosi." Luso-Brazilian Review (forthcoming)

"Antero de Quental, Iberista: Iberianism as Organizing Principle and Evolving Intellectual Commitment." Iberoamericana: América Latina-España-Portugal, No 31, Septiembre de 2008

Alfredo Bosi, Colony, Cult and Culture. Ed. Pedro Meira Monteiro. Trans. Robert Patrick Newcomb. Dartmouth, MA: University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 2008

"José de Alencar's Critical Writing: Narrating National History in the Romantic Era," Luso-Brazilian Review, Volume 44, Number 1, 2007 


“João Cabral de Melo Neto and the Poetics of Bullfighting,” Romance Notes, Volume XLVI Number 3, Spring 2006


Courses Taught

SPA 175: Utopias and Dystopias in Latin American Literature, Criticism, and Film
SPA 231: Sueños utópicos y pesadillas distópicas en la ficción inter-americana contemporánea
SPA 274: Luso-Hispanic Encounters
POR 21: Intermediate Portuguese
POR 23: Portuguese Conversation
POR 31: Portuguese for Spanish-Speaking Students


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