Katia C Bezerra

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Books

• Bezerra, K. C. (2017). Contested Images: Conflicted Geographies of Citizenship in Favelas. Fordham.

Chapters

• Bezerra, K. C. (2021). Adriana Lisboa: revisitando a cidade a partir de um espaço de enunciação fronteiriço. In Panoramas da literatura brasileira 2020: drama, poesia, prosa e outras escrituras. Editora da PUC São Paulo.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2016). The Rio de Janeiro Case: Exploring Geographies of Resistance and Domination. In The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City(pp 419-431). London: Palgrave.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2015). Literatura afro-brasileira: a producao de novas cartografias do espaco urbano. In Mulheres em Letras: Memoria, Transgressao, Linguagem(pp 7-17). Belo Horizonte: FALE/UFMG.

Journals/Publications

• Bezerra, K. C. (2024). Cartas para Angola: A Sense of Belonging in a Postcolonial World. Journal of Lusophone Studies, 8(2), 70-84.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2022). Afterword. Hispanic Issues On Line, 28, 248-257.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2021). Cultura e Espaço Público - journal issue. Aletria Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 31(4).
• Bezerra, K. C. (2021). Introduction and Foreword. Aletria Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 31(4), 9-24.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2020). JR's Morro da Providência Exhibit: A Politics of Cultural Intervention. Luso-Brazilian Review, 57(1), 58-76.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2019). A CASA CAI: UNVEILING GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION AND VIOLENCE. Revista Diadorim.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2019). "Milton Hatoum: Redesenhando fronteiras em uma cidade em transição". De Oriente a Ocidente: Estudos da Associação Internacional de Lusofonistas.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2018). Urban Space in the Lusophone World: Contesting Inequality and Constructing Citizenship. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 22, 127-216.
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• Bezerra, K. C. (2014). "Que bom te ver viva:" vozes femininas reivindicando uma outra historia. Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporanea, 43, 35-48.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014). Alice nao mora mais aqui: as novas faces do espaço urbano português. Luso-Brazilian Review, 51(2), 17-30.

Presentations

• Bezerra, K. C. (2024, October 11). Japanese Immigrants and the Myth of Return. 76th Rocky Mountain Language Association Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2023, April 22-24). Japanese Migration in Brazil and a Sense of Belonging. Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2023, May 17-18). Indigenous Poeples and the City: Reclaiming a Voice/Territory as a Politics of Resistance. Thirteenth International Conference on the Constructed Environment. Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2023, October 12-14). Being Angolan in a Globalized World. 75th Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference. Denver, CO: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2022, April 22-24). “Nôs terra: New Cartographies of Belonging Among Cape Verdean descendants in Portugal.” . 74rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2022, March). “ O sertão no imaginário do cinema brasileiro.”  . BRASA Conference. Virtual Conference.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2022, May). “Urban Space and a Sense of Un-rootedness: Migrant Descendants’ Experience in Contemporary Literature.” . Twelfth International Conference on the Constructed Environment. virtual conference.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2022, October 13-15.). “Nihonjin: Mapping Experiences of Immigration, Gender, and a Sense of Belonging.” . Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2022, October 6-8.). “Nôs Terra: In Search of a Place to Call Home.” . American Portuguese Studies Association Conference. Provo, Utah.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2021, April). Conflicting Notions of Home in Contemporary Brazilian Literature. 73rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2021, January). Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso: Exiled Lives in the (Post-)Colonial Scene. Modern Language Association.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2021, June). Bacurau e a invenção do sertão: rupturas e continuidades. VI Congress Internacional Historia, Literatura y Arte en Cine en Español y Portugués.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014, October). Politicas Publicas e Espaco Urbano: Revisitando o mapa da cidade. American Portuguese Studies Association Ninth International Conference. Albuquerquer: APSA.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2016, April 14-16). Marcelo Backes: Unveiling Geographies of Exclusion and Violence. 69th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2016, October). Adriana Lisboa: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging.. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Convention. Salt Lake City.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2020, December). O sol se põe em São Paulo: noções de pertencimento num mundo globalizado. XXXV ENANPOLL. Virtual - Brazil.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2020, January). Adriana Lisboa: Revisiting the City from a Space of Feminine Enunciation. Modern Language Association.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2019, April). A memória que me contam (2016) and the Politics of Memory in Brazil. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2019, May 23-24). "The Restructuring of Urban Space in Lisbon: Consumption, Identity, and Governance". Ninth International Conference on the Constructed Environment. Guimaraes, Portugal.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2019, September). Silent and Silenced Stories: Enlarging the Perception of the Lusophone World. Invited lecture.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2018, April 19-21). Tensions in the City: Competing Narratives of Displacement, Modernity and Belonging". 70th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2018, May). "A cidade é uma só: Issues of Social Justice andCapital ina Globalized World". Latin American Studies Association. Barcelona, Spain.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2018, October 4-6). Conceição Evaristo e as historias de assuntar: algumas reflexões sobre o espaço urbano". 72th Annual Convention Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Cheyenne.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2018, October). ‘Vivendo um outro olhar:’ Favelas and the Politics of Racial Inequality in Rio de Janeiro”. American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference. Ann Arbor.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2017, July). Milton Hatoum: Redesenhando fronteiras em uma cidade em transição. XII Congresso da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas. Macau.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2017, October). Notes on Os gatos não têm vertigem: Everyday Life and the Invisibility of Otherness. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Spokane, Washington.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2017, October). Nôs Terra: New Cartographies of Belonging among Cape Verdean Descendents in Portugal. MidAmerica Conference of Hispanic Literature. Saint Louis, MI.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2016, April). Morro Alto and Niemeyer Architectural Project: A Portrayal of Inequality in Brazil. Sixth International Conference on the Constructed Environment. Tucson, AZ.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2016, November). Relato de um certo Oriente: Inaugurating Cartographies of Memory and Identity. Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. SaintLouis, MO.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2015, April). Memory and Space in Marcelo Faustini's Work. 68th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language conference. Lexington.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2015, May). Becos e Vilas e a construcao de um senso de pertencimento. VII Coloquio Mulheres e letras. Belo Horizonte.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2015, May). Tempo de Crianca: unveiling geographies of exclusion and violence. Latin American Studies Association. Puerto rico.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2015, November). Urban Space in Contemporary Brazilian Novels: Unveiling Geographies of Exclusion and Violence. Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Columbus, OH.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2015, October). Guia Afetivo da Perferia: Inaugurating new cartographies. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014, April). Sonia Coutinho e a construcao de uma nova dialética urbana. 67th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014, August). Imagens do Povo and the Process of Aestheticization of Difference. Brazilian Studies Association XII International Conference. London: BRASA.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014, May). The Inside/Out Providencia Project: Resisting Historical Forms of Social Exclusion and Violence. Latin American Studies Association. Chicago: LASA.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014, October). The Wonder Port Project: The Transformation of the City into a Site of Consumption. Fifth International Conference on the Constructed Environment. Philadelphia.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014, October). Urban Interventions and Citizenship as Conflicting Agendas: The Case of Morro de Santo Antonio. 68th Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Boise, Idaho: RMMLA.

Reviews

• Bezerra, K. C. (2022.

  “Reassessing the Portuguese Colonial Past: New Scholarly Perspectives and Political Activism"

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• Bezerra, K. C. (2022. From Próximos to Prójimos: Discursive Redlining, Autoconstruction, and Crossing in Estação terminal and Angosta.” .
• Bezerra, K. C. (2018. New Approaches to Lusophone Culture.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2017. Historia e representação: a identidade tipo-brasileira em Gaijin-Caminhos da Liberdade (1980), produzido por Tizuka Yamazaki, e Brazil-Maru (1992), de Karen Tei Yamashita.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2017. Retranslating the Brazilian Imperial Project: O Novo Mundo's Depictions of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition.
• Bezerra, K. C. (2017. The Portuguese-Speaking Diasporas: Seven Centuries of Literature and Arts, by Darlene J. Sadlier(pp 246-248).
• Bezerra, K. C. (2014. War is not measured by uniforms or rifles.