Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies

Tulane University

Christopher Dunn

Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese

Contact Info
cjdunn@tulane.edu

Degrees

  • B.A., Colorado College, History, 1987
  • M.A., Brown University, Brazilian Studies, 1992
  • Ph.D., Brown University, Brazilian Studies, 1996

Academic Experience

  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2002-
  • Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2002
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1996-2001

Research & Teaching Specializations: Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies; Popular Music; Countercultures; African Diaspora Studies

Related Experience

  • Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2003-2009, 2012-2013
  • Program Chair, IX Congress of Brazilian Studies Association, 2008
  • Member, Executive Committee of Brazilian Studies Association, 2002-2006
  • Manuscript evaluation for Duke University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Wesleyan University Press, Indiana University Press, Luso-Brazilian Review, PMLA, Hispanic American Historical Review, Latin American Music Review, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Current Anthropology, Afro-Asia, Identities, Hispanic Review, Calalloo

Distinctions

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2013-2014
  • Latin Americanist Graduate Organization (LAGO) Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, 2008
  • Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, 2002
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 1994-1995

Languages: Portuguese; Spanish

Selected Publications

  • 2014. "Mapping Tropicália." In The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt. Timothy Brown and Andrew Lison, eds. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
  • 2014. "Desbunde and its Discontents: Counterculture and Authoritarian Modernization in Brazil, 1968-1974." The Americas.
  • 2013. "Experience the Experimental: Avant-Garde, Cultura Marginal, and Counterculture in Brazil, 1968-1972." Luso-Brazilian Review.
  • 2012. "Por entre máscaras cool, twists mornos e jazz fervente: Bossa Nova no cenário norte-americano, 1961-1964." In João Gilberto. Edited by Walter Garcia. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, (251-270).
  • 2011. Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship. Edited with Idelber Avelar. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • 2009. "Tom Zé and the performance of citizenship in Brazil." Popular Music. 28 (2): 217-237.
  • 2008. "A Roma Negra e o Big Easy: Raça, cultura e discurso em Salvador e Nova Orleans." Afro-Ásia. 37: 119-151.
  • 2006. "A Retomada Freyreana." In Gilberto Freyre e los Estudios Latinoamericanos. Edited by Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee. Pittsburgh: Instituto de Literatura Iberoamericana. 35-51.
  • 2001. Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Brazilian Cultural Imaginaries (São Paulo); Brazilian Modernities; Luso-Brazilian Cities (Salvador, Bahia), Brazilian Literature and the City; Afro-Brazilians

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 7

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Congreso internacional de literatura y cultura centroamericanas (CILCA XXIII)

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Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans, y Purdue University Calumet tienen el gusto de invitar al CONGRESO DE LITERATURA y CULTURA CENTROAMERICANAS (CILCA XXIII) que se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de New Orleans, Louisiana, del 11 al 13 de marzo del 2015 en el campus de Tulane University y Loyola University New Orleans.

Desde el primer congreso realizado en Nicaragua 1993, CILCA se ha caracterizado por ser un espacio de intercambio intelectual y de amistad para académicas/os, escritoras/es y lectoras/es. El congreso se ha efectuado en todos los países centroamericanos y por primera vez en su historia, CILCA se realizará en los Estados Unidos. La ciudad escogida es Nueva Orleáns, puerta de entrada hacia el Caribe y los países de América Central. El intercambio cultural entre Nueva Orleáns y América Central ha sido intenso por muchísimos años, y la ciudad alberga una de las comunidades de origen hondureño más grandes de los Estados Unidos. Tulane University tiene estrechos lazos con la región a través del Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library, y the Middle American Research Institute. Loyola University New Orleans se ha distinguido por el trabajo con las comunidades hispanas que realizan varias de sus unidades académicas, incluyendo the Law School y el Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

La organización de CILCA XXIII la realizan la Dra. Maureen Shea y el Dr. Uriel Quesada, expertos en literatura y cultura centroamericanas, con el apoyo del Dr. Jorge Román Lagunas, creador y promotor de CILCA.

La convocatoria será publicada en agosto 2014.

Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans, and Purdue University Calumet invite you to the Congress on Literature and Culture of Central America (CILCA XXIII) which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana March 11-13 2015 on the campuses of Tulane and Loyola New Orleans.

From the first conference, held in Nicaragua in 1993, CILCA has been a space for intellectual exchange and friendship for academics and writers. The conference has been held in all of the Central American countries and for the first time in its history will be held in the United States. New Orleans, the gateway to the Caribbean and Central America, has been chosen as the location. New Orleans and Central America have a longstanding cultural exchange and New Orleans has one of the largest Honduran communities in the United States. Tulane has long connections with the region through the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library, and the Middle American Research Institute. Loyola New Orleans works closely with hispanic communities particularly through the Law school and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

CILCA XXIII is organized by Drs. Maureen Shea and Uriel Quesada, experts on the literature and culture of Central America, with the support of Dr. Jorge Román Lagunas, creator of CILCA.

Call for papers coming in August 2014.