Katia C Bezerra
- Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
- Associate Head, Spanish and Portuguese
- Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-3770
- Modern Languages, Rm. 525
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- kbezerra@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Linguistics
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Poetas brasileiras dos anos 80: a heterogeniedade como locus de resistencia e construcao
- M.A. Luso-Brazilian Literature
- The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Saindo do casulo: a construcao da voz feminina na poesia de Adelia Prado
- B.A. English Language and Literatures
- Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Awards
- Fearless Inquiries, Dorrance Dean’s Award – Opening the Canon: “Learning the Power of Storytelling.”
- COH, Fall 2022
- COH Teaching and Outreach Fellowship
- College of Humanities, Fall 2017
- College of Humanities Research Grant
- College of Humanities, Fall 2016
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2022-23 Courses
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Independent Study
PORT 499 (Spring 2023) -
Luso-Brazilian Lit:1900
PORT 401 (Spring 2023) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 463 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Adv Intsv Port+Braz Cult
PORT 497R (Summer I 2022) -
Port Lang Skills+Culture
PORT 397R (Summer I 2022) -
Independent Study
PORT 599 (Spring 2022) -
Inter Grammar+Convers
PORT 325A (Spring 2022) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 463 (Fall 2021) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 563 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Adv Intsv Port+Braz Cult
PORT 497R (Summer I 2021) -
Brazilian Civilization
LAS 430 (Spring 2021) -
Brazilian Civilization
PORT 430 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2020) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 463 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Brazilian Civilization
PORT 430 (Summer I 2020) -
Brazilian Civilization
LAS 430 (Spring 2020) -
Brazilian Civilization
PORT 430 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2019) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 463 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Adv Grammar+Composition
SPAN 425 (Spring 2019) -
Brazilian Civilization
PORT 430 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2019) -
Independent Study
PORT 499 (Spring 2019) -
Issues:Mex+Mex-Am Cult
SPAN 433 (Spring 2019) -
Issues:Span-Am Culture
SPAN 431 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2018) -
Honors Independent Study
SPAN 499H (Fall 2018) -
Intro Genres+Lit Analys
PORT 350 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2018) -
Honors Independent Study
SPAN 399H (Spring 2018) -
Independent Study
PORT 499 (Spring 2018) -
Luso-Brazilian Lit:1900
PORT 401 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2017) -
Independent Study
PORT 599 (Fall 2017) -
Intro Genres+Lit Analys
PORT 350 (Fall 2017) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 463 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Fall 2016) -
Independent Study
PORT 499 (Fall 2016) -
Tpcs Luso-Brazilian Lit
PORT 463 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Brazilian Civilization
LAS 430 (Spring 2016) -
Brazilian Civilization
PORT 430 (Spring 2016) -
Dissertation
SPAN 920 (Spring 2016) -
Intro Genres+Lit Analys
PORT 350 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
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. (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.More infoA special section in the journal
- 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. (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. (2020, December). O sol se põe em São Paulo: noções de pertencimento num mundo globalizado. XXXV ENANPOLL. Virtual - Brazil.
- 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, 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"
. - 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.
