Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
6072 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511
Office: 344 Dartmouth Hall
2009 Spring office hours: Tuesday 2 pm to 3:45 pm or by appointment
Telephone: 603-646-1448
Fax: 603-646-3695
e-mail: Rodolfo.A.Franconi@dartmouth.edu
Ph.D. and M.A. (Spanish and Portuguese) - Vanderbilt University
B.A. (Letras Vernáculas) - Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese Literature and Culture
Contemporary Spanish American Literature and Culture
U.S.-Brazilian and Latin American Studies
Brazilian Film and Teledramaturgy
Intensive Portuguese I PORT 1
Intensive Portuguese II PORT 3
Beginning Spanish SPAN 1
Introductory Spanish SPAN 2
Intermediate Spanish SPAN 3
Portuguese Language for Spanish Speakers ALPs (The Rassias Foundation)
Portuguese Language for English Speakers ALPs (The Rassias Foundation)
Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach SPAN 9
Language Study Abroad- LSA Brazil: Readings in Brazilian Literature PORT 6
Language Study Abroad Plus – LSA Plus Brazil: Introduction to Brazilian literature PORT 12
The Portuguese-Speaking World and its Literatures and Cultures: The Definition of an Identity PORT 20
Foreign Study Program – FSP Uruguay: Contemporary Uruguayan and Argentinian Literatures SPAN 35
Foreign Study Program – FSP Brazil: Contemporary Brazilian Literature PORT 36
Portuguese Literature I: Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century PORT 60
Portuguese Literature II: Late Nineteenth Century to the present PORT 62
Brazilian Literature I: Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries PORT 61
Brazilian Literature II: Late Nineteenth to the present PORT 63
Senior Seminar: “The Portuguese-Speaking World Prose Fiction of the 80's and the 90's: Portugal, Africa, and Brazil” PORT 80
Senior Seminar: “The Poetry of Brazilian Popular Music” PORT 80
History, Culture and Society: The Many Faces of Latin America (Latin American and Caribbean Studies - - LACS 4; team taught with Beatriz Pastor)
The People and Cultures of the Brazilian Amazon (Latin American and Caribbean Studies – LACS 70; team taught with Montgomery Fellow Marlui Miranda)
Study on Brazilian Literature: “Machado de Assis e Haroldo Maranhão: o texto de memórias” PORT 87
Study on Popular Brazilian Culture: “Caetano Veloso e os anos da Repressão” PORT 87
Study on Brazilian Literature: “A reconstrução da óptica nacional a partir de Viva o povo brasileiro” PORT 87
Study on Lusophone African Literature: “As literaturas lusófonas da África pós-colonial” PORT 87
Study on Portuguese Literature: “A presença do Mar na literatura portuguesa” PORT 87
Study on Brazilian Culture: “Da África ao Brasil: o que faz a cultura afro-brasileira?” PORT 87
Honors course on Brazilian Literature: “A literatura das escritoras negras brasileiras contemporâneas” PORT 90
Honors Seminar on Brazilian Literature: “A identidade racial, sexual e nacional da mulher negra brasileira e como se manifesta na obra de Carolina Maria de Jesus” PORT 91
Study on Brazilian Literature: “O erotismo na produção literária feminina contemporânea” PORT 8
Study on Portuguese Language and Culture: "Brasil e Portugal contemporâneos: língua e cultura" PORT 87
Study on Portuguese Literature: "Literatura versus geografia: uma abordagem ao romance pós-moderno português" PORT 87
Study on Brazilian Literature: “Literatura negra feminina no Brasil” PORT 87
Study on Brazilian Theater: “Teatro brasileiro: da catequese jesuítica ao tratro do oprimido” PORT 87
Study on Lusophone African Literature: “A literature africana de expressão portuguesa” PORT 87
Study on Brazilian-American Literature: “Entre-Lugares: identidades híbridas e outros temas repetidos na literatura brazuca” PORT 87
Study on Brazilian Cinema: “The Evolution of the Modern Brazilian Cinema” PORT 87
Erotismo e Poder na ficção contemporânea brasileira. (São Paulo: Annablume Editora) July, 1997.
América Latina: Novas Direções em Crítica e Teoria Literárias IV (Dos estudos literários no Brasil). Sección monográfica. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. No 40, 2nd semester (1994), 7-234.
"O olhar oblíquo: uma categoria cultural. Conceituação e exemplos." In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. Ns. 63-64. Lima-Hanover, 1st-2nd Semesters, 2006, 105-115.
"Literaturas latino-americanas nas instituições e revistas acadêmicas anglo-americanas." In Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada. N. 7 (2005) - Porto Alegre: Abralic, 2005 -v., 131-147.
“Being Brazilian in the States: Between Fiction and Reality.” In “Luso-Brazilian Literaure in the U.S.” Hispania. Volume 88.4 (2005), 726-732.
With Nakamura, C. & Lajoie, S. P. “The multimedia effect in electronic bilingual dictionaries: The effects of graphic representations on vocabulary acquisition of a foreign language.” In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2003: “World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications.” Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. (Norfolk, VA. 2005), 4319-4322.
“La carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha al Rey Don Manuel.” In “El proyecto colonial y sus retóricas,” Sección monográfica: Viajes y Viajeros Coloniales por las Américas. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. No. 60, 2nd semester (2004), 27-42.
Brasil y América Hispana: la mirada oblicua/o olhar oblíquo: América Hispânica e Brasil. Edition and introduction to an anthology of articles on the perception of the "other next door" by Brazilian and Spanish American writers.
Since 1998, coordinator of the Brazilian section of Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL).
Also serves in the editorial board of two academic journals: Revista Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (Universidade de Brasília), and Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Universidade Estadual de Maringá), and in the advisory board of Revista Letras (Universidade Federal do Paraná) and Légua & meia: Revista de literatura e diversidade cultural (Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana).
Associate Researcher at the Laboratório de Estudos sobre a Intolerância - LEI (Universidade de São Paulo)
2001 recipient of The Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award "Faculty of the Year".
