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Ph.D. University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1993, Associate Professor

Areas of interest: Contemporary Brazilian and Latin American literatures, interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary Latin American studies.

She is the author of Kitsch tropical: los medios en la literatura y el arte de America Latina, which was awarded the 2003 prize from the LASA Brazil Section in the category, "Brazil in Comparative Perspective."Kitsch tropical is in its second edition (2004) and an English-language edition is forthcoming. Her recent essays appear in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, Stephen Hart and Robert Young, eds.(2003) and Ritualidades latinoamericanas: Un acercamiento interdisciplinario, Martin Lienhard ed. (2003). She also received the Guimarães Prize awarded by Radio France Internationale in 1992 as a writer. She is the author of two books of short stories, Flauta e Cavaquinho and Os Ossos da Esperança. Work in progress includes: Cosmopolitanism in Brazilian Literature and Culture and Tears for Export: Soap Operas and Literature in Latin America.