Regina Castro-McGowan, Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. Teaching and research interests: Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies and Latin American literature and film. Her research focuses on the literature of colonial and imperial Brazil and the literary historiography of the Portuguese Renaissance. She has been awarded national and international grants for archival research at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Brazil’s Fundação Biblioteca Nacional and Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Dr. Castro-McGowan's latest book (made possible by a past grant from the CUNY RF) is titled Presence of Life/Presença da Vida: A Critical Bilingual Edition of Nita Lupi's Previously Unpublished Poems.

Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY
M.Phil., The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
B.A., City College, The City University of New York

Portuguese language, and the cultural studies, film and literature of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world.

“Black, Then White, Then Black Again: Brazil’s Racial Politics and the Changing Face of Machado de Assis.” Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas. Ed. V. Valdes and E. Fitz. New York: SUNY Press. August 2024 (upcoming).

“’Whose Place of Speech?’ Brazil’s Afro- and Queer-Centric YouTube Channels and the Decentralization of TV Globo’s Telenovela Discourse.” Racial Injustice, Violence and Resistance: New Approaches Under Multidimensional Perspectives. Social Sciences, MDPI, vol.13, January, 2024.

“Presence of Life/Presença da Vida: A Critical Bilingual Edition of Nita Lupi's Previously Unpublished Poems." Florida: Underline Publishing, 2021.

“Terra Papagalli: A Historical Novel deconstructing Brazil’s Official History of Discovery.”  In Ometeca 12, 2015.

“João Baptista Lavanha ‘cronista mor do reyno’ e a historiografia sebástica do século XVII.” In Representações do mito na história e na literatura. Org. Ana L. Vilela et al. Coleção Literaura 6. Évova: Universidade de Évora, 2014.

“O discurso litrário nacionalista e a política linguística estatal.” In Ao redor do mundo: Leituras em Português. Vol. 2. 155-167. Coord. Elena Como. New York: Atlantico Books, 2013.

"A retórica do fantástico: Murilo Rubião e Jorge Luis Borges: Um caso comparativo.” LL Journal. New York: CUNY Graduate Center, 2007.

“Questões de número e gênero em Fernando Pessoa.” Viseu: Revista Ave Azul. 2005.