09/08/2022
By Monica Melo

The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, in partnership with the Departments of English and World Language and Cultures, presents: 1922: Modernist Poetry in Brazil.

K. David Jackson, Ph.D., Yale University
Thursday, September 15 at 3:30 p.m.
O’Leary Library, Room 478
(In person only)

Introduction to Brazilian Modernism of 1922 and discussion of poems by Mário de Andrade, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira and Murilo Mendes.

K. David Jackson, Ph.D., is a professor of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures at Yale University and author of Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde (2021), Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (2015), Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (2010) and many other literary essays, as well as studies of the ethnography of Portuguese descendants in Asia.

This lecture is incorporated into the course on Modernism offered by Todd Tietchen, Ph.D., of the English Department.

For more information, contact the Saab Center at 978-934-5199 or email diana_gomessimoes@uml.edu.