Synopsis:
I was born in São Paulo, Brazil. My graduate studies were done
in Madrid, Spain, but I defended the dissertation at the University
of São Paulo (USP) in Neo-Latin Studies (Spanish as major)
where I worked for a couple of years, before moving to Rio de Janeiro.
I got a second Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Universidade Federal of
Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). I taught at UFRJ, at the Universidade Federal
Fluminense (UFF) and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica
(PUC)for twenty-three years.
My career and interest have always been in Humanities, and I have
taught in a number of different areas: language and linguistics, literature
and communication, and semiotics. At USP I taught Spanish language
and Hispanic culture: at UFRJ and PUC my main field was Linguistics,
with a specialization in Semantics and Dialectology; at UFF I taught
Communication Theory with emphasis on nonverbal communication and
mass communication (especially the language of television). My theoretical
approach to these fields is semiotics.
I came to the United States in 1987 as a visiting professor and permanently
in 1989 to teach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I am currently working with Portuguese and Brazilian literature with
a focus on Portuguese Women writers.
My bibliography includes the following books: A fala dos jovens
(1994), Comunicação do corpo (1990), Comunicação
não-verbal, a gestualidade brasileira (1985), Manual
de semântica (1980), Para ler Greimas (1978), A
linguagem da juventude (1975), "The Code and Message of Carnival:
Escolas-de-Samba." Carnival (New York, 1984; Tokyo, 1987;
Mexico, 1989). |
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