Speaker: Kenneth David Jackson,Yale University

Kenneth David Jackson is a distinguished cultural theorist and Professor of Brazilian, Portuguese, and Lusophone Literature.  He received his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His areas of research include all fields of modern Brazilian, Portuguese, and Latin American literature and culture from the 15th century to the present; visual culture, modernist literature and arts; and Portuguese culture in Asia, poetry, music, and ethnography and “world literature” theory.  He is the author of Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde (2021, Peter Lang), Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (2015, Yale University Press), Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (2010, Oxford University Press), Portugal: As Primeiras Vanguardas (2003, Iberoamericana Vervuert ), A Vanguarda Literária no Brasil (1998, Iberoamericana Vervuert), Sing Without Shame: Oral Traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole Verse (1990, Creole Language Library 1990), and A Prosa Vanguardista na Literatura Brasileira: Oswald de Andrade (1978, Editora Perspectiva).  He is also the author of numerous edited volumes, including, The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (2006, Oxford University Press), Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet (2005, Centre For Brazilian Studies), Experimental, Visual, Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry Since 1960 (co-ed., 1996, Rodopi), and Transformations of Literary Language in Latin American Literature (1987, University of Texas).