Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg Personal Records Zoe Weber, 2016 and Records Management Services 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS Biographical sketch... 3 Scope and content... 4 Series 1: Lecture notes and course materials... 5 Series 2: Publications and addresses... 7 Page 2 of 7
Biographical sketch Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, was a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, who taught courses on Brazilian and Portuguese literature between his appointment in 1979 and his retirement in 2015. His main research interests are Brazilian and Portuguese literature and literary figures. Sternberg is also a poet. He has four collections of his poetry published as well as having poems published in numerous poetry magazines and anthologies. Education Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1948, Ricardo Sternberg moved with his family to the United States in 1963, where he received his B.A. in English literature from the University of California, Riverside (1971). He received his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1978) in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Harvard University between 1975 and 1978. University of Toronto Ricardo Sternberg was appointed to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in 1978, and was cross-appointed to the Centre for Comparative Literature in 1984 until 1998. He became an Associate Professor in 1984 and a Professor in 1998. He was a Graduate Advisor for the Centre for Comparative Literature from 1986 to 1998, and the President of the Research Development Commission from 1988 to 1991. From 2004-2005, Professor Sternberg was Acting Director for the Centre for Comparative Literature, and Acting Chair (2007-2008) and Interim Chair (2009-2010) for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He became a Professor Emeritus upon retirement in 2015. Over his career as a Professor, he has taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in Brazilian and Portuguese literature, with a focus on 19 th and 20 th century Luso-Brazilian literature, and literary figures such as Eça de Queirós, Machado de Assis, and José Saramago. Poetry and publications Professor Sternberg has researched and written extensively on Brazilian and Portuguese literature, literary figures and their works, having numerous articles published in several scholarly journals. He has also translated the works of poets such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Jorge de Lima, and João Cabral de Melo Neto. He is also a poet himself, having had many of his poems published in magazines such as The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry (Chicago), Descant, American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly and Ploughshares, as well as in anthologies of Canadian and Latin American literature. He also has four published collections of his work: The Invention of Honey. Montreal: Vehicule,1990; Map of Dreams. Montreal: Vehicule,1996, Bamboo Church. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996; Some Dance. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. He received the National Discovery Prize in 1974, the Pushcart Prize in 1978, and the Blues award for Best Canadian Poetry in English in 2012. Page 3 of 7
Scope and content 1981-2014; predominant 1995-2014 0.65 m of textual records This fonds consists of records of Professor Ricardo Sternberg, documenting his career as a professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto and his published work on subjects in Portuguese and Brazilian literature. The contents of the fonds primarily cover courses taught between the mid-1990s and 2014, and articles published in the 1980s to the early 2000s. The fonds provides a significant record of Portuguese literary themes, figures and works taught and written about by Ricardo Sternberg. These records include course lecture notes, annotated Portuguese and Brazilian literary works, course packs, course syllabi and assignments, pamphlets for lectures given, and published articles written by Ricardo Sternberg. Arrangement note: The fonds is organized into series and files based upon the binders used to house the material when it first arrived at the archives. Accessions: Boxes: 001-005 Access: Open Related fonds in the U of T Archives: Corrigan, Beatrice Marion Hayes, B1980-0023 Fraser, William Henry, B1990-0027 Fraser Family, B1995-0044 and B1997-0027 Parker, Jack Horace, B1986-0080 Page 4 of 7
Series 1: Lecture notes and course materials ca. 1995-2014 0.65 m of textual records This series consists of course notes and readings for a number of undergraduate courses in Portuguese Studies taught by Professor Sternberg at the University of Toronto. The majority of the courses are on literary subjects, including Portuguese and Brazilian literature and literary figures, such as Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and José Saramago. Documents relating to the courses include annotated course readings, lecture notes, tests and assignments and syllabi. Access: Open Boxes: 001-005 Box (File) Title Dates /001 (01) Brazilian Modernism course readings n. d. /001 (02) Course readings n. d. /001 (03) PRT 255 Brazilian Culture [2006] /001 (04) PRT 255S Brazilian Culture course readings n. d. /001 (05) PRT 258 course readings Fall 2005 /001 (06) PRT 258 Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature course readings Fall 2008 /001 (07) PRT 258F Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature course n. d. readings /001 (08) PRT 258 Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature course 2014 readings /001 (09) PRT 342F Machado de Assis course readings n. d. /001 (10) PRT 342S Machado de Assis course readings n. d. /002 (01) PRT 356Y Eça/Machado ca. 2011-2013 /002 (02) PRT 356F 20 th Century Portuguese Literature course readings 2002 /002 (03) PRT 357F Brazilian Movements course readings n. d. /002 (04) PRT 357S Contemporary Movements in Brazilian Literature n. d. course readings /002 (05) PRT 357S Brazilian Literature course readings n..d /002 (06) PRT 358 Topics in Portuguese Studies ca. 1995 /002 (07) PRT 358F The Fashioning of the Literary Self, Medieval 2003-2004 through Modern course readings /002 (08) PRT 358F The Allegorical Mr. Saramago course readings n. d. /002 (09) PRT 358S José Saramago course readings n. d. /002 (10) PRT 358S Topics in Portuguese Studies course readings n. d. /003 (01) PRT 359 Portuguese Modernism (from Pessoa to Saramago) [ca. 2011] /003 (02) PRT 359 20 th Century Portuguese Literature from Pessoa to n. d. Saramago course readings /003 (03) PRT 361 Foreign Mappings (part 1 of 2) n. d. /003 (04) PRT 361 Foreign Mappings (part 2 of 2) n. d. Page 5 of 7
Box (File) Title Dates /003 (05) PRT 365S Romantismo course readings n. d. /003 (06) PRT 423 Translation course readings n. d. /003 (07) PRT 442 Eça de Queirós (part 1 of 2) ca. 2011-2013 /003 (08) PRT 442 Eça de Queirós (part 2 of 2) ca. 2011-2013 /003 (09) PRT 442 Eça de Queirós course readings n. d. /003 (10) PRT 442F Eça de Queirós course readings n. d. /004 (01) PRT 443F Machado de Assis ca. 2013 /004 (02) PRT 443F Machado de Assis, annotated copy of Memórias ca. 1968-2013 Póstumas de Brás Cubas /004 (03) PRT 443F Machado de Assis course readings n. d. /004 (04) PRT 443S Machado de Assis course readings n. d. /004 (05) PRT 454Y The Luso-Brazilian Novel ca. 2000-2007 /004 (06) PRT 454Y The Luso-Brazilian Novel [2009] /004 (07) PRT 454 The Luso-Brazilian Novel course readings n. d. /004 (08) PRT 454 The Luso-Brazilian Novel course readings n. d. /005 (01) PRT 455 Eça/Machado n. d. /005 (02) PRT 455Y Machado de Assis and Eça de Queiroz course n. d. readings /005 (03) PRT 456Y 20 th Century Movements in Portuguese Literature [ca. 2011] /005 (04) PRT 458S Luso-Brazilian Short Story course readings Spring 2012 /005 (05) VIC 280F Creative Writing: Poetry course readings n. d. Page 6 of 7
Series 2: Publications and addresses 1981-2007 0.13 m of textual records This series consists of articles written by Ricardo Sternberg and published in various Portuguese Studies and Hispanic journals. The articles are in the English language and discuss several Brazilian literary figures and their works, including Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987), Ivan Angelo (1936- ), Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968), and Ferreira Gullar (1930- ). There is also a poem written by Sternberg, three Italian poems translated by him and some pamphlets and correspondence regarding a couple lectures he has given. Access: Open Boxes: 005 Box (File) Title Dates /005 (06) Colloquium on Carlos Drummond de Andrade and article Out of the Quarrel with Ourselves: Sentimento do Mundo April 1981-1986 /005 (07) The Precarious Self: Carlos Drummond de Andrade s Brejo das Almas, Hispania 65 March 1982 /005 (08) O Marinheiro and the Ontological Question in Pessoa 1983 /005 (09) The World Within: Carlos Drummond de Andrade s Alguma Poesia, Luso-Brazilian Review, 21(2) Winter 1984 /005 (10) The Unquiet Self: Self and Society in the Poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade 1986 /005 (11) Narrative by the Mirror: A Festa by Ivan Angelo 1987 /005 (12) Bandeira, Manuel in Dictionary of Brazilian Literature 1988 /005 (13) Memory and History in Ferreira Gullar s Poema sujo, Revista 1989 Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 14(1) /005 (14) Francis s Barn poem 1990 /005 (15) Alterity in O Barão, Luso-Brazilian Review, 34(1) 1997 /005 (16) Alterity in O Barão, Arquipélago 15 1997-1998 /005 (17) Three Poems by Remo Fasani, Gradiva, 6(4) 1998 /005 (18) University of Calgary lecture on José Saramago 1999 /005 (19) The Hamilton Poetry Centre readings and workshops pamphlet 2001 /005 (20) Celebrating the Celebration, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 26(1-2) 2001-2002 /005 (21) Revisiting A Ilustre Casa de Ramires, Hispanófila 136 2002 /005 (22) British Diplomatic Correspondence: The Canudos Revolt, Portuguese Traditions 2007 /005 (23) Blackmore, Josiah. Dissidences, La Corónica, 30(1) 2001 Page 7 of 7