Regina Castro-McGowan

Assistant Professor

Building

North Academic Center

Office

6/336A

Phone

212-650-5261

Regina Castro-McGowan

Profile

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鈥檚 Funda莽茫o Biblioteca Nacional and Biblioth猫que Nationale de France. Dr. Castro-McGowan's latest book (made possible by a past grant from the CUNY RF) is titled Presence of Life/Presen莽a da Vida: A Critical Bilingual Edition of Nita Lupi's Previously Unpublished Poems.

Education

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

Courses Taught

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

Publications

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

鈥溾橶hose Place of Speech?鈥 Brazil鈥檚 Afro- and Queer-Centric YouTube Channels and the Decentralization of TV Globo鈥檚 Telenovela&苍产蝉辫;顿颈蝉肠辞耻谤蝉别.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Racial Injustice, Violence and Resistance: New Approaches Under Multidimensional Perspectives. Social Sciences, MDPI, vol.13, January, 2024.

鈥淧resence of Life/Presen莽a da Vida: A Critical Bilingual Edition of Nita Lupi's Previously Unpublished Poems." Florida: Underline Publishing, 2021.

Terra Papagalli: A Historical Novel deconstructing Brazil鈥檚 Official History of Discovery.鈥  In Ometeca 12, 2015.


Jo茫o Baptista Lavanha 鈥榗ronista mor do reyno鈥 e a historiografia seb谩stica do s茅culo XVII.鈥 In Representa莽玫es do mito na hist贸ria e na literatura. Org. Ana L. Vilela et al. Cole莽茫o Literaura 6. 脡vova: Universidade de 脡vora, 2014.


O discurso litr谩rio nacionalista e a pol铆tica lingu铆stica estatal.鈥 In Ao redor do mundo: Leituras em Portugu锚s. Vol. 2. 155-167. Coord. Elena Como. New York: Atlantico Books, 2013.


"A ret贸rica do fant谩stico: Murilo Rubi茫o e Jorge Luis Borges: Um caso comparativo.鈥 LL Journal. New York: CUNY Graduate Center, 2007.

Quest玫es de n煤mero e g锚nero em Fernando Pessoa.鈥 Viseu: Revista Ave Azul. 2005.