Research Group: American Studies (RG 3)
Professional Title: Professor Auxiliar 
Institutional Address: CEAUL -Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa
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ULICES Research Projects:

• Pen Pal in Translation
• Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen, International Conference, “Portuguese Americans on Screen: Hollywood Gone-a-Changing or the Power and Persistence of Stereotypes?”
• “Shoving God into the Backseat: The Erosion of the Divine in Portuguese American Literature” (ensaio/essay);
• “’Playing in the Dark’ with Portuguese Statues in the United States of America: João Rodrigues Cabrilho, Peter Francisco, and Catarina de Bragança” (ensaio para um volume com arbitragem/essay for a thematic peer-reviewed volume, “Os rostos da Europa”);
• Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature after the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements in the United States (livro em preparação/book in preparation);
• Anthology of Essays on Portuguese American Literature (livro/antologia de ensaios já publicados em revistas internacionais com arbitragem; book/collection of essays gathered in one volume but already published individually in several peer-reviewed international journals).

Academic Degrees:

• Ph.D., English, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998. Major fields of concentration: 19th and 20th century American literature; American Realism and Naturalism; Portuguese American literature; postcolonial, cultural, and ethnic studies
• M. Phil., English, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1994
• M.A., English, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1989
• Licenciatura, Modern Languages and Literatures (English and French studies), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 1985

Publications:

Books:

• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. Portuguese American Literature. Turril, Penrith UK: Humanities-Ebooks, LLP, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84760-108-7.  
• Silva, Reinaldo. Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature. North Dartmouth, MA: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2008.

Articles/ chapters in books:

• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Madly in Love Outside the Church and the Nunnery: The Portuguese Priest and Nun Revisited in Katherine Vaz’s Fiction.” Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective. Ed. Luz Angélica Kirschner. Trier,Germany and Tempe, Arizona: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier and Bilingual Press at Arizona State University, 2012. 71-85.  
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Her Story vs. His Story: Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States of America.” Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together. Ed. Francisco Cota Fagundes, Irene Maria F. Blayer, Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. 49-62.  
• Silva, Reinaldo. “De ‘refugo’ a cidadãos de pleno direito: Imagens selectivas de portugueses na literatura norte-americana.” ”http://www.socgeografialisboa.pt/ wp/wp content/uploads/2010/01
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Pride and Rejection: In Search of Portuguese Roots in Julian Silva’s Fiction.” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies. 30-31 (2009-2010): 11-23. 
• Silva, Reinaldo. “T. S. Eliot and the Prémio Camões: A Brief Honeymoon and Anointment of Portuguese Fascist Politics.” Yeats Eliot Review 26.2 (2009): 16-23.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “The United States through the Eyes of the Educated Immigrant: The Case of Jorge de Sena.” Portuguese Studies Review 16 (2) (2008-2009): 121-134.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “The Tastes from Portugal: Food as Remembrance in Portuguese American Literature.” Ethnic Studies Review 31.2 (2008): 126-52.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “From Political Refugee to Object of Sexual Desire: The Role of the ‘Young Portuguese Lady of Rank’ in Hawthorne’s ‘Drowne’s Wooden Image.” Op. Cit.: Uma Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/ A Journal of Anglo-American Studies Vol.10 (2008): 127-144.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “A recepção anglófona de A Selva e de outras obras de Ferreira de Castro.” Actas do Congresso Internacional A Selva 75 anos. Ossela, Oliveira de Azeméis: Centro de Estudos Ferreira de Castro, 2007. 157-75. 
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “The Rhetoric of Exclusion: The Portuguese Reaction to Donald R. Taft’s Two Portuguese Communities in New England” in Giving and Taking Offence/Ofender e ser ofendido. Ed. Anthony David Barker. Aveiro: Departamento de Línguas e Culturas/Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. 101-107. 
• Silva, Reinaldo. “John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway’s Attitudes towards Otherness.” John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries. Ed. Stephen K. George and Barbara A. Heavilin. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2007. 69-76.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Stevens and Pessoa/Caeiro: Poetry as ‘Degree Zero’.” Estudos em Homenagem a Margarida Losa. Ed. Ana Luísa Amaral and Gualter Cunha. Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006. 405-22.   
• Silva, Reinaldo. “An Uncomfortable Match: The Panegyric at Odds with Anne Bradstreet’s Account of Elizabethan Politics Abroad.” Portugal e o Outro: Textos de Hermenêutica Intercultural. Ed. Otília Pires Martins. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro, 2005. 171-80.   
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “’The ‘Gees: Herman Melville’s Quarrel with Racism.” Transgressing Cultural and Ethnic Borders, Boundaries, Limits and Traditions. Ed. Ampie Coetzee. Pretoria: U of South Africa P, 2004. 402-20. 
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Steinbeck and Cabrilho: Understanding an Unusual Match with the Help of Ethnicity and Postcolonial Discourse.” The Steinbeck Review 2.2 (Fall 2005): 94-109.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “The Ethnic Impulse in Frank X. Gaspar’s Poetry and Fiction.” Ethnic Studies Review 28.1 (2005): 39-58.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Abolition.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. 5 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. [Vol. 1: pp. 4-9].
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Thomas J. Braga.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. 5 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. [Vol. 1: pp. 311-12].
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Frank Xavier Gaspar.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. 5 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. [Vol. 2: pp. 798-801].
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Portuguese American Literature.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. 5 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. [Vol. 4: pp. 1775-81].
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Katherine Vaz.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. 5 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. [Vol. 5: pp. 2208-10].
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Representations of the Portuguese in Jack London’s Martin Eden.” Portugal e o Outro: Imagens e Viagens. Ed. Otília Pires Martins. Aveiro: Universidade, 2004. 137-48.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Laurinda C. de Andrade.” Dicionário no Feminino (Séculos XIX-XX). Zília Osório de Castro e João Esteves (dir.); António Ferreira de Sousa, Ilda Soares de Abreu e Maria Emília Stone (coord.). Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2005, pp. 499-501.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Abel Botelho and the Discourse on Sexuality in Portuguese Naturalist Fiction.” Cadernos Neolatinos. CD-ROM. Special issue on Émile Zola and Naturalism. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Departamento de Letras Neolatinas, UFRJ, April 2005.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “The Ethnic Garden in Portuguese-American Writing.” The Journal of American Culture 28.2 (2005): 191-200.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Eroticizing the Other in Edith Wharton’s ‘Beatrice Palmato’.” Mentalities/Mentalités 19.1 (2005): 38-45.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Social Darwinism, Race, and the Discourse of Empire in Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous: Gloucester’s Portuguese American Fishermen under British Eyes.” Excavatio: International Review for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies related to Émile Zola and his Time, Naturalism, Naturalist Writers and Artists around the World 19 1.2 (2004): 223-35.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Jack London and Some of His Short Fiction: A Genuine Quarrel with Colonialism?” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 5.1 (2004): 40-53.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Thomas Braga’s Portingales: A Celebration of Portuguese American Culture.” Ethnic Studies Review 27.1 (2004): 57-77.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Representations of the Portuguese in Jack London’s The Valley of the Moon.” Columbia Journal of American Studies 6 (2004): 237-46.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “Fishing for Literary Influence: Echoes of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 28.1 (2004): 37-50.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Portuguese American Literature and Anticlericalism: Katherine Vaz’s Reshaping of the Tradition.” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies 22-23 (2001-2002): 46-63.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Representations of East Timor in the Poetry of Ruy Cinatti: Colonial Rule under Crossfire.” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 8 (Spring 2002): 503-21.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “An Overlooked Legacy: Gloucester’s Portuguese Fishermen in the Background of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Dry Salvages’.” Yeats Eliot Review 20.1 (Spring 2003): 3-11.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “José Rodrigues Miguéis.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 287: Portuguese Writers. Edited by Monica Rector and Fred M. Clark. Detroit: Gale, 2004, pp. 170-175.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Carlos de Oliveira.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 287: Portuguese Writers. Edited by Monica Rector and Fred M. Clark. Detroit: Gale, 2004, pp. 188-193.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “The Machine and the Garden: Walt Whitman and     Fernando Pessoa’s Álvaro de Campos.” The Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies. 15 (Summer 2002): 19 pp. http://www.micklestreet.rutgers.edu
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “Mark Twain and the ‘Slow, Poor, Shiftless, Sleepy, and Lazy’ Azoreans in The Innocents Abroad.” The Journal of American Culture 26.1 (2003): 17-23.
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. “At the Crossroads of Naturalism and Racial Prejudice: John Steinbeck’s Imaging of Portuguese-Americans in Tortilla Flat.” Portugal e o Outro: uma relação assimétrica? Coord. Otília Pires Martins. Aveiro: Universidade, 2002. 193-202.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “The Corrosive Glance from Above: Social Darwinism, Racial Hierarchy, and the Portuguese in The Octopus.” Frank Norris Studies: New Series 1 (2001): 2-8.
• Silva, Reinaldo. Contributed with ten Portuguese recipes – most of which, referred to in the Portuguese American writings of Thomas Braga, Frank Gaspar, and Katherine Vaz – for the volume, The MELUS Family Cookbook. Ed. Avis Kuwahara Payne. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks/The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, 2001: 32-33; 34; 35-36; 38; 129; 130; 176-77; 86-87; 199; 216.
• Silva, Reinaldo. “London Interest in Portugal.” The Call: The Newsletter of the Jack London Society. 11.2 (2000): 4-5.

Reviews:

• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. Rev. of Amory: Six Dialogues and Six Poems, by Thomas J. Braga, Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies 26-27 (2005-2006): 245-49.    
• Silva, Reinaldo Francisco. Rev. of Chaucer: A New Midrashic Reading of the Man and his Work, by Norman Simms, Mentalities/Mentalités 19.1 (2005): 56.

Internationalisation:

Papers delivered at academic conferences:

• “From Obscurity to the Pantheon of Portuguese American Heroes: Recycling Peter Francisco for Ethnic Minority ‘Feel Good’ and Uplift,” presented at the International   Conference Recycling Myths, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 2-5 May 2012.              
• “Donald R. Taft’s Two Portuguese Communities in New England: A Case Study on the Portuguese ‘Plague’ and Discourse on Eugenics in the United States,” presented at the annual conference of the European Association for American Studies, “The Health of the Nation,” Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, 30 March-2 April 2012.          
• “Watch Out for the ‘Black Portygee’!: Paranoia and Fear of Portuguese Commixture in American Literature,” presented at the 32nd Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, May 12-14, 2011
• “From the Top of the Racial Pyramid in Hawaii: Demonizing the Hawaiian Portuguese in Elvira Osorio Roll’s Fiction,” presented at the 2nd International Conference on Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, April 18-29, 2011
• “Revisiting Ancestral Roots in Katherine Vaz’s Fiction: Padre Amaro and Mariana,”  presented at the Bi-annual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, “Transnational Americas: Difference, Belonging, Identitarian Spaces.” University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, November 11-13, 2010    
• “Madly in Love Outside the Church and the Nunnery: The Portuguese Priest and Nun Revisited in Katherine Vaz’s Fiction,” presented at the 4th International Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., October 24, 2009
• “De ‘refugo’ a cidadãos de pleno direito: Imagens selectivas de portugueses na literatura norte-americana,” presented at the round table, A Presença e a Imagem dos Portugueses nos EUA, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 22 October 2009 
• “From Colonial Myopia to Cosmopolitan Clear-sightedness: The Influence of Europe in Correcting Mark Twain’s ‘Visual Disorders’,” presented at the Sixth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College, Elmira, NY, August 6-8, 2009    
• “Pride and Rejection: In Search of Portuguese Roots in Julian Silva’s Fiction,” presented at the «Lusofilias»/Portuguese Studies colloquium, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, November 13-14, 2008
• “Her Story vs. His Story: Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States of America,” presented at the Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora (1928-2008): International Conference on Storytelling, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, October 23-25, 2008
• “Searching for Anchors of Ethnic Identity in Katherine Vaz’s Fiction,” presented at the Second Biennial Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network – Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Diaspora, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, July 11-13, 2008     
• “Literature at the Service of Politics: The Immigration Acts of the 1920s and the   Demonization of the Portuguese in American Writing,” presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA), Leiden University, the Netherlands, June 25-28, 2008   
• “Mary McCarthy, V. S. Pritchett e Richard Franko Goldman: Os Sucessos e Insucessos da Política de Salazar,” presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, April17-19, 2008  
• “Over the Waves We Heard Laurinda Andrade’s Voice: Discursive Crossings and Re- Crossings of the Atlantic in The Open Door,” presented at the Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, University College Cork, Ireland, 9-12 July 2007
• “The Rhetoric of Exclusion: The Portuguese Reaction to Donald R. Taft’s Two  Portuguese Communities in New England,” presented at the Conference on “Giving and Taking Offense,” University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, June 21-22, 2007   
• “From ‘Rejects’ to Assimilated Citizens: Selected Portrayals of the Portuguese in American Literature,” presented at the Launch of the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, 21 October 2006, expenses funded by the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies

Organisation of academic meetings and conferences (recent):

• Membro da comissão organizadora do Congresso Comemorativo dos 25 anos da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, Universidade de Aveiro, 5-7 de Dezembro de 2012.

Supervision of Doctoral Theses and MA Dissertations:

• Monteiro, Fábio de Jesus Monteiro Sabença. Dinamização e Actualização da Marca Wall Street Institute (2010); Mestrado/MA em Línguas e Relações Empresariais
• Barros, Hélida Regina Moreno. Estudo de Caso: A Campanha publicitária do Wall Street Institute Portugal do ano 2010 (2010); Mestrado/MA em Línguas e Relações Empresariais
• Capelo, Mafalda João Oliveira. O turismo e sua aplicação nos dispositivos móveis: Projeto TourEmotion desenvolvido na empresa Ubiwhere (2012); Mestrado/MA em Línguas e Relações Empresariais
• Wszolek, Magdalena. A Universal Study of Female Psyche in Zora Neale Hurston’s THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD:  An Interpretative Escape from Assumptions of Harlem Renaissance and Feminism (2012) MA Thesis (Joint supervision: University of Aveiro/ University of Silesia, Poland)
• Sousa, Maria Isabel de. As questões ecológicas em algumas narrativas de Herman Melville e Henry David Thoreau (Mestrado em preparação/MA in process)
• Silva, Rebecca Wolbach. Kate Chopin’s THE AWAKENING and Gustave Flaubert’s MADAME BOVARY – Cultural Similarities and Differences (Mestrado em preparação/MA in process)
• Costa, Ana Sofia Razões da. Os Três Acordes de Patti Smith: Poesia, Punk e Política (Mestrado em preparação; MA in process)

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