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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
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

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

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Courses

2022-23 Courses

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

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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.
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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. (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"

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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.

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