- 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
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
Interim Director, Portuguese Program
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.