Contact Information

Office: 3145 JFSB

Phone: 422-2496

E-mail: vco2@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Port 315 Intermediate Portuguese
Port 322 3rd Year Grammar
Port 339 Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literature
Port 355 Brazilian Civilization
Port 451 Survey of Brazilian Literature
Port 441 Survey of Portuguese Lliterature
Port 439R/639R Luso-Braz

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, 1982
MA, Brigham Young University, 1995
PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2006

Interests

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