- Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
- M.A., University of Virginia, 2001
- B.A., University of Virginia, 1997
Estela Vieira
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
Interim Director, Portuguese Program
- evieira@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-6143
- Global and International Studies Building 2149
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Education
Affiliations
- Comparative Literature
- Institute for European Studies
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- African Studies
About Estela Vieira
I am a scholar of Lusophone studies with special interests in nineteenth-century literature, film, and women writers. My first book studied the function and representation of the interior space in three realist novels. I am currently working on a manuscript that studies women authors in nineteenth-century Portugal. I am also interested in film and have published articles on film and literature, political memory and cinema, and Iberian women filmmakers. My research has focused on nineteenth-century writers including Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Júlio Dinis; on Portugal’s cultural history including the Lisbon earthquake of 1755; on modernist poetics and contemporary authors such as José Saramago; and on comparative approaches to Lusophone and Hispanic studies.
Publications
Book
- Interiors and Narrative: The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
Selected articles and book chapters
- “José Saramago and Literary Dogs.” Saramago After the Nobel: Contemporary Readings of José Saramago's Late Works, edited by Paulo de Medeiros and José N. Ornelas, Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 111-130.
- “Maritime Disasters and Collective Identities: Surviving Shipwreck in Early Modern Portugal.” Hispania, vol. 103, no. 4, 2020, pp. 545-55.
- “Female Friendships: Communities and Legacies of Women Readers and Women Writers in Ana Plácido and Guiomar Torresão.” Revista de escritoras ibéricas, vol. 8, 2020, pp. 101-130.
- “Gender Violence and Historical Memory in Margarida Cardoso and Isabel Coixet.” Women in Iberian Filmic Culture: A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Portugal and Spain, edited by Elena Cordero-Hoyo and Begoña Soto-Vázquez, Intellect Books, 2020.
- “Image, Historical Memory, Politics: Margarida Cardoso’s Kuxa Kanema and Susana de Sousa Dias’s 48.” Women’s Cinema in Contemporary Portugal, edited by Mariana Liz and Hilary Owen, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 129-149.
- “Transatlantic Modernisms: Portugal and Brazil.” Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa, edited by Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastian Faber, Pedro García-Caro, and Robert P. Newcomb, Liverpool UP, 2019, pp. 397-405.
- “Nature’s Literary Lessons: Júlio Dinis on Literature and the Environment.” Portuguese Literature and the Environment, edited by Victor Mendes and Patrícia Vieira, Lexington Books, 2019, pp. 107-120
- “Cinematic Walls: Pedro Costa’s Mural Imagination.” Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2017, pp. 165-180.
- “The Art of Stealing: Eça de Queirós and Kleptomania.” Revista de Estudos Literários, no. 6, 2016, pp. 239-260.
- “Discourse and Disaster: A Universal History of Lisbon’s 1755 Earthquake.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, no. 29, 2016, pp. 70-91.
- “National Cinema and Intertextuality in Alejandro Amenábar: From Hollywood to Julio Cortázar.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 91, no. 8, 2014, pp. 1229-1244.
- “Politics and the Aesthetics of Absence in Margarida Cardoso’s Cinematic Work.” Hispanic Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, 2013, pp. 67-85.
- “Discovery as Mediation: Luís de Camões’s Account of the Portuguese’s Arrival in India.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, no. 21/22, 2012, pp. 369-382.
- “Álvaro de Campos's Ultimatum: An Old Recipe for a New Portuguese Poetics.” Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 47, no. 2, 2010, pp. 120-134.
- “The Aquatic Unconscious: Water Imagery in Eça de Queirós’s A cidade e as serras.” Portuguese Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2010, pp. 168-182.
Co-edited journals
- On Portuguese Cinema, special issue of Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2017 [with Clara Rowland].
- Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis: diálogos transatlânticos, special issue of Revista de estudos literários, no. 6, 2016 [with Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez and Luciana Namorato].
Specializations
- Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures
- Nineteenth-century women writers
- Film and literature, Iberian women filmmakers
- Portuguese cultural history
- Nineteenth-century narrative
Teaching
- Global Portuguese: Arts & Culture
- Women Writing in Portuguese
- Theater in Portuguese: Nation & Identity
- Literature & Film in Portuguese
- Literatures of the Portuguese Speaking World
- Thinking in Portuguese: Essay, Criticism, Theory
- Contemporary Portuguese Literature
- Poetry in Portuguese
- Portugal: The Cultural Context
- Advanced Grammar & Composition in Portuguese
- Luís de Camões
- Structure of the Portuguese Language
Current research projects
- Portuguese women writers of the 19th century
- Women in Iberian film
- Machado de Assis’s female readers
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