Contact Information

Office: 3145 JFSB

Phone: 422-2496

Email: vco2@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Port 321 (Third-Year Grammar and Composition),
Port 339 (Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature)
Port 355 (Brazilian Civilization)
Port 441 (Survey of Portuguese Literature)
Port 451 (Survey of Brazilian Literature)
Port 452 (Machado de Assis)
Port 439R/639R (Luso-Brazilian Theater)
Port 459R/659R (Brazilian Film, Luso-Brazilian Short Story, Brazilian Women Writers, Brazilian Culture and Literature and Dictatorships)

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013 Office Hours:
MWF 1-1:50 PM or by appointment

Biography:

Professor Fitzgibbon earned her Masters degree in Portuguese from Brigham Young University and her Doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her main area of research is contemporary Brazilian literature and film with emphasis on racial discrimination and resentment in the establishment of the Brazilian identity (mainly 19th and 20th centuries). Some interests include poetry and theater as well as cultural and historical studies in Brazil and Latin America.

Degrees: BA, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba
MA, Brigham Young University
PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Interests:

Brazilian literature, history, and film; Race and identity in Latin America