Richard Vernon teaches various periods of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
literature as well as Spanish and Portuguese language courses. His
research embraces Portuguese, Brazilian, and Luso-African authors from
the 16th-20th century. He specializes in non-traditional and marginal
literary forms that are appropriated for social and political
subversion, for example 18th-century Portuguese street literature and
Brazilian children's literature from the period of the military
dictatorship. He is currently working on a book-length project dealing
with social debates concerning increasingly malleable class and gender
roles that occurred within the medium of Portuguese 18th-century
chapbook literature
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