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Luís Bernardo Honwana was born in 1942 in Mozambique. He studied law in Portugal, and in 1975 was appointed director of the President's Office in the newly independent Mozambique under Samora Machel, and then Secretary of State for Culture in 1981. He served on the Executive Board of UNESCO from 1987 to 1991 and was chairman of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the World Decade for Culture and Development. He joined UNESCO in 1995 and was appointed director of the newly opened office in South Africa. Since he retired from the Organization in 2002 he has been active in research in the arts, history and ethno-linguistics.

 

Honwana is the author of a single book, Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso (1964). Dorothy Guedes translated this collection of short stories into English in 1969, under the title, We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories. Set in the (Portuguese) colonial era at the turn of the sixties, the book is reflective of the harsh life black Mozambicans lived under the Salazar regime.  As noted by Sabine (2004), Honwana offers a critique of colonial domination by force, exposing "the centrality of gender politics to the Lusotropicalist myth of Portuguese racial democracy diguising the white supremacist reality of the Estado Novo's colonial rule" (3).

 

Luís Bernardo Honwana

David Treece

CAMOENS Professor of Portuguese

KCL

David Treece received his BA in Hispanic Studies (1982) and his PhD in Brazilian literature (1987) from the University of Liverpool. Between 1984 and 1987 he worked for the human rights NGO Survival International and produced a report on the impact of a major Amazonian development project, the Greater Carajás Programme, on the region’s indigenous communities. He continued his interests in the politics and social impact aspects of Amazonian development by contributing to film documentaries and to the activities of the NGO Brazil Network. After a year lecturing at the University of Glasgow, in 1987 he joined the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King’s, serving as its Head of Department from 2002 to 2005. He was appointed Professor of Brazilian Studies in 2004 and Camoens Professor of Portuguese in 2005. In 1996 he created the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, which became a major European focus for academic work on Brazilian cultural studies, literature and history and is now part of the King’s Brazil Institute.Since 1989 Treece has been an Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas (formerly Institute of Latin American Studies), University of London, teaching on its MA programmes every year. From 2000 he was Associate Fellow of the University of London’s Institute of Romance Studies and a teacher on its MA programme and, since 2001, an Advisory Council member of the Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2000 Treece was awarded the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian Government for services to Brazil-UK relations.

Anna M. Klobucka

Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies

UMass Dartmouth 

Anna M. Klobucka holds an MA in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). She taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia before coming to the University of Massachussetts Dartmouth in 2001. At UMass Dartmouth, she teaches primarily Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. She is the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell, 2000, Portuguese translation issued by Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda in 2006) and O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2009). She has co-edited the volumes After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknel University Press 1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (University of Toronto Press, 2007, Portuguese translation published in 2010 with Assírio & Alvim), and Gender, Empire and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her articles have appeared in Colóquio/Letras, Luso-Brazilian Review, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, and SubStance, among other journals. She was also the lead author of the first edition of Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (Prentice Hall, 2007). She currently serves as Executive Editor of the open-access online Journal of Feminist Scholarship, published by the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at UMass Dartmouth.

 

 

 

 

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