Faculty and Staff

Sandra Sousa, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor
• Sandra.Sousa@ucf.edu
• Office Hours: Summer21 TTh10am-11am (zoom) & by zoom appointment
• Campus Location: TCH365C
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Education

• Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University (2012)
• M.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University (2011)
• M.A. in Portuguese Studies from University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth (2006)
• B.A. in Portuguese Language and Culture from University of Lisbon (Portugal) (2001)

Research Interests

• Colonialism and post-colonialism;
• Portuguese Colonial Literature;
• Race relations in Mozambique;
• War, dictatorship and violence in contemporary Portuguese and Luso-African literature;
• Feminine writing in Portuguese, Brazilian and African literature.

Selected Publications

Books

• Portugal Segundo os Estados Unidos da América. Dir. José Eduardo Franco e Fátima Vieira. Cord. Sofia Araújo. Lisboa: Theya Editores, 2021.

  
  
• Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros. Sheila Khan, Sandra Sousa, Leonor Simas-Almeida Isabel A. Ferreira-Gould, Nazir Ahmed Can (eds.). Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2017.
• Ficções do Outro: Império, Raça e Subjectividade no Moçambique Colonial. Lisboa: Esfera do Caos, 2015.

Edited Editions

• Literatura Colonial Portuguesa. Portuguese Cultural Studies. 7.1 (2021). Ed. Sandra Sousa.

  
  
• Passados antecipados, futuros empoeirados: os caminhos da ficção de João Paulo Borges Coelho. Mulemba 10.18 (2018). Ed. Nazir Ahmed Can, Sandra Sousa, Sheila Khan e Elena Brugioni.
  
  

Articles/Essays

• “Introdução.” Portuguese Cultural Studies 7.1 (2021): 1-3.

  
  

• “Ambiguidades Luso-Tropicais em Rodrigues Júnior.” Portuguese Cultural Studies 7.1 (2021): 4-16.

   

  
  

• “Informal lives and strategies of survival on Mozambique’s margins: The narratives of João Paulo Borges Coelho.” Transmodernity 9.5 (2020): 23-38. [published 2021]

  
  

• “Silenced Voices in the Feminine: a reading of Yara Monteiro’s Essa Dama Bate Bué.” Diadorim. 22.3 (2020): 198-211. [published 2021]

   

  
  

• “Um “Pós-Colonial” Perdido nos Limites do Colonialismo: Henrique Galvão e os Bichos Do Mato.” Mulemba 12.23 (2020): 16-33. [published 2021]

   

  
  
• “‘A man can find a home anywhere’: African mobility and the fall of dreams in Behold the Dreamers.” Mulemba 12.22 (2020): 78-92 [published 2021]

   

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• (With Gergana Vitanova, Emily Johnson, Amy Giroux, Don Merritt) “Assessing the Impact of Game Modalities in Second Language Acquisition: ELLE the EndLess Learner.” Journal of Universal Computer Science 26.8 (2020): 880-903.

  
  

• (With Ann Miller) “Reacting to the Past Mini Role Play Games.” Journal of Faculty Development 34.3 (Sep. 2020): 71-72.  

  
  
• “As mulheres brancas dos homens da resistência afro-luso-brasileira: um olhar sobre as relações coloniais.” Brasil Brazil 32.60 (2019): 41-60. [published January 2020]
  
  
  
  
• “The Portuguese Colonial Press and the Estado Novo.” Diadorim 21 (Especial 2019): 57-71.
  
  
  
  
• “A visita de Mandrake ao Porto de Jaime Ramos: intertextualidade em Um Crime Capital de Francisco José Viegas.” Diadorim 21.1 (2019): 51-63.
  
  
  
  
• “Silêncios no feminino no Boletim da Agência Geral das Colónias/do Ultramar.” Ex-aequo 39 (2019): 55-69.
  
  
  
  
• “The Benefits of Role Play in Portuguese Language and Culture Classes.” Portuguese Language Journal 12 (Fall 2018): 22-39. [Published March 2019]
  
  
  
  
• “The Nigerian Diaspora in the United States and Afropolitanism in Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun.” African Studies Quarterly 18. 2(2019): 39-54.
  
  
  
  
• “Pretos e Brancos: Brito Camacho e o Olhar Antropológico da Literatura Colonial.” Abril 10.20 (2018): 25-36.
  
  
  
  
• “Racial and Cultural Bridges in Mia Couto’s O Outro Pé da Sereia.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 8.1 (2018): 63-77.  
  
  
  
  
• ““Eu quero ver o Atlântico”: A ficção portuguesa “marginal” depois da revolução.” Revista Moara. 48 (2018): 157-168.
• “A Descoberta de uma Identidade Pós-Colonial em Esse Cabelo de Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.” Abril 9.18 (2017): 57-68.
• “On the Particularities of Postcolonial Studies, or How Postcolonialism Has Become Obsolete.” Mulemba 9.16. (2017): 19-31.
  
• “‘Artes e Letras Coloniais/Ultramarinas’ no Boletim Geral das Colónias e do Ultramar.” Transmordernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 7.2 (2017): 56-72.                                               
• “Quando as mulheres transgridem o espaço: João Guimarães Rosa e Graciliano Ramos em comparação.” Signo 42. 74 (2017): 126-138.
  
• “Haiti and Mozambique: Postcolonial literature in the context of combined and uneven development.” e-cadernos CES 26 (2017): 129-151.
  
• “E tu, que achas tu de tudo isto?”: Colonial Women, Memory and Post-Independence in João Paulo Borges Coelho’s Rainhas da Noite.” Gragoatá. Vol 21. N.41 (2016): 830-849.
• “Now we don’t have anything”: Remembering Angola through the lens of American missionaries.” Configurações 17 (2016): 119-137.
• "'Ursos,’ ‘Palermas’ ou Soviéticos?: Socialismo e Capitalismo em AvóDezanove e o segredo do Soviético de Ondjaki.” Afro-Hispanic Review. Volume 34, Number 1 (2016): 107-118.
• (with Tom Lewis) “Knowledge and politics across the North/South divide.” International Socialist Review. Issue 99. 2015-16: 77-93.
• “O Mato de Guilhermina de Azeredo: a mulher colonizadora em Angola.” InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies. Special Issue 4.1. Words in Exile: Poetics of Female Voices of the Portuguese-Speaking World (2015): 31-48.
• “‘War is not measured by uniforms or rifles’: resisting Portuguese colonial wars through “marginal” sexual behaviors.” Transmordernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2015): 57-72.
• (With Tom Lewis) “Para Além da Divisão Norte/Sul em Epistemologia e Política Emancipatória.” Configurações 12 (2014): 29-45.
• “Da capital para o interior: a jornada de uma mulher dentro das margens do Império Colonial Português.” Ellipsis [Journal of the American-Portuguese Studies Association]. vol.12 (2014): 243-258.
• “João Paulo Borges Coelho e as Contradições do Pós-colonialismo: uma análise de A Crónica da Rua 513.2.” Literatura em Debate. v. 7, n. 13(2014): 106:121. 
• “O Mato de Guilhermina de Azeredo: ambivalência colonial no feminino.” Buala. (2013)
• “A influência do luso-tropicalismo na literatura colonial portuguesa da década de 60: mito ou realidade?” Revista Trama. Vol 9, nº 17, 1º semestre (2013): 153-165.
• “A conjugação do verbo odiar em O Matador de Patrícia Melo.” Revista SOLETRAS. Nº 23 (2012): 140-154.
• “Clarice Lispector: Subsídios para o género masculino e feminino.” Hispania. Vol 95, 2 (2012): 227-235.
• "Demarginalising Portugal’s Elderly: Representations of Ageing in José Luís Peixoto’s Cal.” Forum for Modern Language Studies. Oxford University Press 47, 1 (2011): 210-221.
• “As contradições da escravatura na Baía do século dezanove: Viva o Povo Brasileiro e Domingos Sodré.” Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea 6 (2011):153-177.
• “A Importância do Espaço na Constituição do Género em O Primo Bazilio de Eça de Queiroz.” Caligrama Vol 15, N. 1 (2010): 253-278.
• “O pacto emocional em Os Cus de Judas.” Divergencias Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literários 1, vol. 8 (2010): 12-19.
• “‘Conheces o nome que te deram, não conheces o nome que tens’: a questão identitária do nome próprio e a experiência nipo-brasileira em O Sol se Põe em São Paulo de Bernardo Carvalho.” Revista Iberoamericana 230, vol. LXXVI (2010): 187-199.
• “Portuguese Literature.” World and Its Peoples–Europe. Vol. (Spain and Portugal). Marshall Cavendish Reference, New York (2009).
• “Fernando Pessoa: O mistério da arte de fingir.” Romance Notes. Vol. XLVII N.2 (2007): 225-233.

   

Book Sections/Chapters

• (With Leonor Simas-Almeida) “Racial, Cultural and Emotional Crossing Paths: Mia Couto’s Hopeful Pessimism in Terra Sonâmbula and O Outro Pé da Sereia.”  Mozambique on the Move: Challenges and Reflections. Ed. Sheila Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen.Brill, 2018. 169-185
  
  
  
  
• “Bernardo Carvalho or the Truth That You Can Only Know through Fiction.” Critical Insights. Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Ipswich, MA: Grey House Publishing, 2017. 150-162.
• “Desafiando silêncios: as ambiguidades raciais em O Olho de Hertzog de João Paulo Borges Coelho.” Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros. Sheila Khan, Sandra Sousa, Leonor Simas-Almeida Isabel A. Ferreira-Gould, Nazir Ahmed Can (eds.). Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2017. 181-193.
• “Os Prémios Literários durante o Estado Novo: uma outra História?” Prémios Literários. O Poder das Narrativas/ As Narrativas do Poder. Orgs. Ana Gabriela Macedo, Elena Brugioni, Joana Passos. Porto: Editora Afrontamento, 2016: 43-52.

Book Reviews

• “Silva, Daniel F. and Lamonte Aidoo, Eds. Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies. Anthem Press, 2021. 368 pp. ISBN:9781785276194.” Portuguese Cultural Studies 7.1 (2021): 76-77.

  
  
• “Zachary Kagan Guthrie. Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. 225 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Paper.” African Studies Review (2020).
• “Tavares, Maria. No Country for Nonconforming Women. Feminine Conceptions of Lusophone Africa. Legenda, 2018.” Journal of Lusophone Studies 4.1 (2019): 328-330.
  
  
  
  
• “Winterbottom, Tom. A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro After 1889. Glorious Decadence. Springer Nature: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 978-3-319-31200-2.” Hispania. 101.4 (December 2018): 656-657.  
  
  
  
  
• “Sadlier, Darlene J. “The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. 314. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1148-6.” Hispania 101.1 (March 2018): 152-153.
• “‘Aries Point’, a novella by Nancy Bird.” Revista Cruce. 21 Set. 2016.
• “Sheila Khan, Portugal a lápis de cor. A Sul de uma pós-colonialidade. (Coimbra: Almedina, 2015).” Configurações 17 (2016): 259-261.
• “Dora Nunes Gago, Travessias. Contos Migratórios, Viseu, Edições Esgotadas, 2014.” Lisboa: CLEPUL em Revista, nª4: 6-8.
• “Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra. White Negritude. Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity.”  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 194 p.” Brasil Brazil 47 (2014): 127-129.
• “SJU→MSP: A Puerto Rican Woman in Minnesota” Centro Voices (2014).
• “Margo Milleret. Latin American women on/in stages. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. 263p.” Brasil Brazil 37 (2008): 110-114.
  

Miscellaneous Publications

• “O sonhador de histórias e outras memórias.” Preface. Lobo, Almiro. As formigas do Tavinho e Outras Recordações. Alcance: Maputo, 2021. 3-6.

  
  

• “Dogs, Cats and Underwear, or How We Survived the Online Transition.” Faculty Focus 19.2. (2020): 8-9.

  
  
• “When students build the course syllabus: the things we learn.” Faculty Focus 18.2 (2019): 8-9.  
  
  
  
  
• “Can We Keep on Dancing? Role-Play in Online Courses.” Faculty Focus 16.3 (2017): 7-8.
• “Try Running After Work: On the Possibilities of Active-Learning Classes.” Faculty Focus. Vol. 15. Nº 1 (2016): 9-10.
• “From the Dark to the Light: How Role-Play Can Transform Teaching and Learning.” Faculty Focus. Vol. 14. Nº 3 (2015): 9-10.
• “João Dias.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012): 75-78.
• “João Melo.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012): 111-115. 
• “João Paulo Borges Coelho.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol.367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012): 25-28.
• “Lina Magaia.” Dictionary Literary Biography: Lusophone African Authors. Ed. Monica Rector and Richard Vernon. Vol. 367. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning (2012): 106-110.

Awards

Courses

• Spring 2022
• Fall 2021
• Summer 2021
• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020