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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