Dr. Levilson Reis
Dr.
Levilson Reis,
Associate
Professor of Foreign Languages
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Students
often ask me how, as a Brazilian, I came to be a professor of French. The answer is perhaps as uncanny (unheimlich,
as Freud would say) as the
question, for it lies in the colonial history of my Brazilian home
town—Sấo Luis—founded
by the French in 1612. Before coming
under Portuguese rule, (Fort) Saint Louis, had been the Brazilian
capital of Equinoxial
France (La France équinoxiale).
The
historical, sculptural, and architectural
vestiges of a phantasmatic France have apparently left an imprint on my
psyche,
galvanized my interest in French language and literature, and sparked
my
interest
in colonial and postcolonial transnational encounters and their
complementary issues of race,
gender, and
sexuality in both literature and film. My publications and research
interests range from medieval, Renaissance to nineteenth- and
twentieth-century French literature, Brazilian, Mexican, and Spanish
literatures, second-language acquisition, and the scholarship of
teaching.
2005 was the year of Brazil in France/L'Année du Brésil en
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