- Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
- M.A., University of Virginia, 2001
- B.A., University of Virginia, 1997
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Estela Vieira
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Portuguese Program
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
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.