LORRAINE LEU Lorraine.Leu@austin.utexas.edu Profile summary: Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) & Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. Appointed 01/01/11. Associate Director, LLILAS, UT Austin. Fellow of the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professorship (2015-18). Editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Previous Appointments: 2007-09 Chair, Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, University of Bristol, England. 2007-10 Associate Professor in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Univ. of Bristol. 2002-07 Assistant Professor in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Univ. of Bristol. 2000-01 Lecturer in Spanish & Portuguese & Coordinator, Centre for Brazilian Studies, Middlesex University, London, Academic qualifications: 1996-2000 PhD, King s College, University of London, Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. Major field: Cultural Studies. Geographic specialization: Brazil. 1993-1995 MA with Distinction in Latin American Area Studies (emphasis Cultural Studies, Cultural History, Anthropology), Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. 1988-1992 BA with honors in Spanish & Portuguese (emphasis Cultural Studies), King s College, University of London, Departments of Spanish & Spanish American Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. Research: I have an established research profile in the area of Brazilian Cultural Studies, drawing from the areas of cultural history, in particular music and film history, cultural geography, black studies and urban studies. My first book (Brazilian Popular Music, Ashgate, 2006) was selected by The Year s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory as one of the most important books in the field that year. My current research project examines how Brazil s whitening ideology materialized in a major urban reform project that was carried out in 1922, the year that the country celebrated its centenary of independence. My project makes race and ethnicity fundamental to understanding both official efforts to organize space, and alternative forms of producing space by those whom the state and the municipal government wished to eradicate from the capital. Since 2000 I have been an Editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and the ongoing process of assessing submissions with my fellow editors allows me to anticipate directions and follow debates on a wide range of issues and across many disciplines within the area of Latin Americanism. Publications:
Authored book: Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition (Aldershot & Burlington, VT: Ashgate: 2006) (xii + 180 pages). Articles and Chapters in Books: "Eradicating blackness from the ideal city: Urbanization, global spectacle, and Brazil's Centenary". In Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Julia O Donnell, eds., Urban Latin America: Image, Words, and the Built Environment. New York: Routledge: publication expected 2016. "Urbanization, ruination, and refusal: Racialized geographies in 1920s Rio de Janeiro", Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 25.1 (forthcoming 2016). Defiant geographies: black spaces of cultural expression in early 20 th century Rio de Janeiro, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities, 9.2 (2014), 177-194. Soundtrack to Roguery: Music and Malandragem in the City. In Lisa Shaw and Robert Stone, eds., Screening Song in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema. (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2012), 264-282. Performing Race and Gender in Brazil: Karim Ainouz s Madame Satã, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, 4.1 (2010-11), 73-95. Spaces of remembrance and representation in the city: José Padilha s Bus 174, Luso-Brazilian Review, 45.2, Winter 2008-9, 177-189. Drug traffickers and the contestation of space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro, E- Compós Revista da Escola de Comunicações, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 11.1 (2008), online journal. Brazilianism, Culture and Consumption in the United Kingdom, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. LXXXIV, 4-5 (2007), 645-652. Music and National Culture: Pop Music and Resistance in Brazil, Portuguese Cultural Studies, inaugural issue (Winter 2006), 36-44. A imprensa e o espetáculo da violência no Rio de Janeiro contemporâneo, in Micael Herschmann (ed.) Comunicação, Cultura e Consumo, (Editora Epapers: Rio de Janeiro: 2005). The Press and the Spectacle of Violence in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 13.3 (2004), 343-355. Fantasia e fetiche: consumindo o Brasil na Inglaterra, Eco-Pós, Revista da Escola de Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 7 (2004), 13-17. Language and Memory in Popular Song: Brazil s Caetano Veloso, Journal of Romance Studies (Vol. 3.1, Spring 2003), pp. 343-355. Raise Yuh Hand, Jump Up and Get On Bad: New Developments in Soca Music in
Trinidad, Latin American Music Review, 21.1: Spring/Summer 2000, pp. 45-58. Reviews & Other Publications: 2 entries on Brazilian cinema in the Directory of World Cinema: Brazil, eds. Natalia Pinazza & Louis Bayman (Intellect: Bristol: 2013). Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music, T. Livingston-Isenhour & T. Caracas García (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press: 2005) for the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 84.2, 2007. The Social History of the Brazilian Samba, Shaw, L. (Aldershot: Ashgate: 1999) for the Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, June, 2000. The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus, (orgs.) Robert M. Levine & José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick: 1999), for Portuguese Studies, October, 2000. 33 entries on literature, popular music and art in the Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Latin American & Caribbean Culture, eds. Mike González, Dan Balderston & Ana López (Routledge: London: 2000). Translation from Spanish & Portuguese of the manuscript of Modernity in Latin America, ed. Vivian Schelling (Verso: London: 2000). Research Awards, Grants & Fellowships: Appointed a fellow of the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professorship for 3 years with effect from Fall 2015. COLA College Research Fellowship, awarded December 2014 for Spring 2016. LLILAS, UT Faculty Led Research Initiative Funding, 2014-15. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Fall 2010. Bristol University Research Fellowship, 2009/2010 session. British Academy Research Grant, 2007. Bristol Institute for Research in the Arts & Humanities Grants, 2003, 2006/7. Bristol University Research Fellowship, 2004/2005 session. British Academy Conference Organization Grant, 2004. Scholarly Presentations in the last 5 years: "Race and Culture in Brazil", invited speaker to 2015 conference of Calaloo: Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, June 10-13, 2015. "Defiant Geographies: Race, Ethnicity, and Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro", 9th APSA Congress, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Oct 23-25, 2014. "Defiant Geographies: Race, Ethnicity, Class and a Destroyed Community in 1920s Rio de Janeiro", 12th International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, King's College, University of London, England, Aug 20-23, 2014.
"Showcasing Rio: Urbanization, race/ethnicity, and global spectacle", Annual Conference of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, December 13-14, 2013, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Race, migration, and urban space in Brazil, possibilities for inter-disciplinary research, University of Brasília, June 3 rd, 2013. Defiant geographies: black spaces of cultural expression in early 20 th century Rio de Janeiro, 27 th Annual Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of West Georgia, November 1-3, 2012. Eradicating blackness in the ideal city: Rio de Janeiro s International Exposition of 1922, Eleventh International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sep 6-8, 2012. The Killing of Place: 1920s Rio de Janeiro and Urbanization by Elimination, Geography Department, UT, April 20, 2012. Cinema and the favela as racialized space, 30 th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, 23-26 May 2012. Drug traffickers and the Contestation of Space in Rio de Janeiro, Republics of Fear: Understanding Endemic Violence in Latin America Today, LLILAS, UT Austin, March 4-5, 2010. Conference organization: Co-organizer, international conference, "Migration, Race & Urban Space in Brazil", UT Austin, Nov 7-8, 2014. Co-organizer, colloquium on Migration, Race & Urban Space, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 3, 2013. Member, Organizational Committee, Lozano Long Conference, Refashioning Blackness: Combating Racism in the Americas, February 20-22, 2013. Organizer, international conference, The Future of Latin American Cultural Studies, sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and LLILAS, March 30-31, 2012. Service: UT Service: LLILAS: Associate Director for Student Programs, 2013-2016. Graduate Adviser, 2011-2016. Member of the EC, 2012-2013; 2013-2014; 2014-2015. Member, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Brazil Center, 2012 to present. Member, Search Committee, LLILAS/Anthropology Assistant Professorship, Spring, 2015. Member, UT-FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) committee, Spring 2015. Mellon/Faculty Summer Research Funding Review Committee, December, 2014. Publications Committee, Spring semester 2011, 2012-2013, and 2013-2014. Member, Search Committee, LLILAS/African & African Diaspora Studies Assistant Professorship, 2013-2014. Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Brazil Center, 2011-2012. Graduate Admissions Committee, 2012-2013. Graduate Program Review Committee, Spring 2012; charged with re-
conceptualizing the LLILAS PhD. Graduate Admissions Committee, 2011-2012. Mellon/Faculty Research Leave Review Committee, December, 2011. Artes Américas Faculty Committee, 2011-2012; charged with creating links between visiting Latin American performers and activities in the undergraduate and graduate classroom. Latin American Filmmakers Committee, Fall semester 2011; charged with creating collaborations between UT Film Studies and the Cine Las Américas Film Festival in Austin. Leader (with Fernando Lara, School of Architecture) of Faculty Seminar on Brazilian Urban Studies, Spring semester 2012. 8 UT faculty and 2 visiting faculty from 7 different disciplines participated. Spanish & Portuguese: Member of the EC, 2012-2013 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2012-2013 EC of the Graduate Studies Committee, 2012-2013 Hons Thesis Adviser, 2012-2013 Undergraduate Program Committee, Spring semester 2012 Research Productivity Committee, Fall, 2011; charged with producing a system for quantifying and qualifying faculty research output. Graduate Admissions Committee, 2011-2012. Portuguese Coordinator, Spring semester 2012. University: International Area Expert, Travel Risk Assessment for International Office Service to the profession: One of 7 editors of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Eco-Pós, the communication studies journal published by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Ângulo, the journal of literature and culture published by the University of São Paulo. Member of LECC (Laboratório da Escola de Comunicação e Cultura) a project based at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to undertaking critical readings of the media s representation of minorities and marginalized communities, and to projects to facilitate more selfrepresentations by favela dwellers in the mass media. Peer reviewer for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Ethnomusicology Forum, Luso- Brazilian Review, Music, Sound and the Moving Image, New Cinemas, Portuguese Studies. Expert referee for the Leverhulme Trust, one of the largest research charities in the UK. Proposal reviewer for Routledge Colloquials Language Series. Proposal reviewer for Verso Books. Consultant expert for BBC Bristol, Channel 4 Television, the Jornal do Brasil. Teaching: I teach on a wide variety of subject areas and across several disciplines, offering
courses on culture and society in Brazil, and also on Spanish-speaking Latin America. Several of my courses explore the inter-relationships between society and visual and aural cultures. I also have a research-led teaching interest in race, ethnicity, and urban space in Brazil. I received the LLILAS Outstanding Faculty Award from the Graduate class of 2013. Graduate: Course code: Course title: LAS 384 LLILAS Proseminar POR 381/LAS 392P Cinema, Criminality & Violence in Brazil POR 381/LAS 392P Cinema & Subalternity in Brazil POR 381/LAS 392P Brazilian Cultural Theory ILA 388/LAS381 Brazilian Urban Studies POR 385L Conference Course: Contemporary Portuguese Lit Undergraduate: POR 350K LAS 370P/ PRC 325E/LAS 370P PRC 320E/LAS 328 UGS 303 BDP 321 Luso-Brazilian Film Brazilian Popular Music Modern Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Society & Culture Bridging the Disciplines Program: - Diane Enobabor, Fall 2010 - Jesse Crandell, Fall 2014 - Sam Hagan, Spring 2015. Graduate Advising/examination committees: MA thesis adviser (LLILAS): Spencer Stoner (completed 2013) Alida Perrine (completed 2013) Daniele Coplin (completed 2013) David Hutchinson (will complete Spring 2015) Mariana Morante (will complete Spring 2015) Kate Layton (will complete Spring 2015) Jessica Diaz-Hurtado (second reader, will complete Spring 2015) PhD Adviser: Dorian Jackson (with Prof. Gabriela Polit) graduated May 2015 Célia Cordeiro Sarah Nicholus Jessica Carey-Webb Catalina Iannone PhD Committees: Alexandre Lima (Spanish & Portuguese, defended Spring 2011) Silvia Castro (Spanish & Portuguese, defended Fall 2013) Leonardo Cardoso (School of Music, defended Fall 2013) Eliseo Jacob (Spanish & Portuguese, defended Fall 2014) Franklin Strong (Comparative Literature, defended Spring 2015) Giulianna Zambrano (Spanish & Portuguese, defending Spring 2015) Brian Bobbitt (Spanish & Portuguese, defending Fall 2015)
Jonathan Fleck (Comparative Literature, defending 2016/7) Catalina Iannone (Spanish & Portuguese, defending 2016/7) Cory LeFevers (School of Music, defending 2016/7) Cory Hahn (Comparative Literature, 2016/17) Katherine Jensen (Sociology, defending 2017) Comprehensive Exams/ Lists Committee: Silvia Castro (Spanish & Portuguese, 2011) Eliseo Jacob (Spanish & Portuguese, 2012) Paula Park (Spanish & Portuguese, 2012) Dorian Jackson (Spanish & Portuguese, 2012) Christina McCoy (Spanish & Portuguese, 2012) Brian Bobbitt (Spanish & Portuguese, 2012) Leonardo Cardoso (School of Music, 2012) Franklin Strong (Comparative Literature, 2012) Meg O Dowdy (Spanish & Portuguese, 2013) Giulianna Zambrano (Spanish & Portuguese, 2013) Sandra Sotelo-Miller (Spanish & Portuguese, 2013) Cory Hahn (Comparative Literature, 2013) Sam Cannon (Spanish & Portuguese, 2014) James Staiger (Spanish & Portuguese, 2014) Brandon McCullers (Spanish & Portuguese, Fall 2014) Jonathan Fleck (Comparative Literature, Fall 2014) Célia Cordeiro (Spanish & Portuguese, Spring 2015) Arno Argueta (Spanish & Portuguese, Spring 2015) Daniela Meirelles (Spanish & Portuguese, Spring 2015) Catalina Iannone (Spanish & Portuguese, Spring 2015) Qualifying Paper Advisor or 2 nd Reader Megan Coxe (2 nd reader, 2013) Célia Cordeiro (2 nd reader, Spring 2014) Sarah Nicholus (advisor, Spring 2015) Jessica Carey-Webb (advisor, Spring 2015)