Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973, Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese.

Phone: (203) 432-7608

Area of interests: Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures; Camões, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa; modernist, vanguardist, and inter-arts literature; Portuguese culture in Asia; ethnomusicology.

Author of: De Chaul a Batticaloa: As marcas do império marítimo português na Índia e no Sri Lanka (2005), Camões and the First Edition of The Lusiadas (CD-ROM, 2003); Portugal: As Primeiras Vanguardas (2003); Os Construtores dos Oceanos/Builders of the Oceans (1998); three CDs in the series The Journey of Sounds produced by EXPO '98/CNCDP (Lisbon, 1998); A Vanguarda Literária no Brasil (1998); A Hidden Presence: 500 Years of Portuguese Culture in India and Sri Lanka (1995); Sing Without Shame (1990); A Prosa Vanguardista na Literatura Brasileira: Oswald de Andrade (1978);
 
Editor of the Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (2006), Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet (2005); Experimental, Visual, Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry Since 1960 (co-ed., 1996); Oswald de Andrade: 100 Years of Invention (ed., 1992); Transformations of Literary Language in Latin American Literature (ed.,1987).
 
Co-translator of Oswald de Andrade's Seraphim Grosse Pointe (1979) and Patricia Galvão's Industrial Park (1993).
 
Camões and the First Edition of The Lusiadas (CD-ROM, 2003); Portugal: As Primeiras Vanguardas (2003); Os Construtores dos Oceanos/Builders of the Oceans (1998); three CDs in the series The Journey of Sounds produced by EXPO '98/CNCDP (Lisbon, 1998); A Vanguarda Literária no Brasil (1998); A Hidden Presence: 500 Years of Portuguese Culture in India and Sri Lanka (1995); Sing Without Shame (1990); A Prosa Vanguardista na Literatura Brasileira: Oswald de Andrade (1978); Editor of "Grand Expositions: Iberian and Latin American Modernisms in the Museum" (2002); "Staging Portuguese and Brazilian Theater" (2000); Experimental, Visual, Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry Since 1960 (co-ed., 1996); Oswald de Andrade: 100 Years of Invention (ed., 1992); Transformations of Literary Language in Latin American Literature (ed.,1987).
  Co-translator of Oswald de Andrade's Seraphim Grosse Pointe (1979) and Patricia Galvão's Industrial Park (1993).

Named to the International Advisory Board of the Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos at the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)