Indiana University Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese, Darlene J. Sadlier, a foreign member (sócia-correspondente) of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the only U.S. citizen and woman currently holding this lifetime position, spent thirty-six years at Indiana University, thirty-one of which she held the position of Director of the Portuguese program and four years as Department Chair. She regularly taught courses on Brazilian and Latin American cinema, and the literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. She was adjunct or affiliated Professor with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, European Studies, African Studies, Comparative Literature (Film), American Studies, and the Honors College. Her book Brazil Imagined is the first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English. She has published extensively about Brazil and beyond as a writer, editor, and translator. Among her books are The Portuguese Speaking Diaspora, Americans All, A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film and The Lilly Library from A to Z. Her most recent book is on the Cuban classic film Memories of Underdevelopment.
The Darlene J. Sadlier Scholarship in Portuguese supports undergraduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese within the College of Arts and Sciences who have a minimum GPA of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale and are majoring in Portuguese or are seniors completing a thesis or other capstone project in Portuguese or are engaged in in-depth study of the Portuguese language approximately equivalent to a Portuguese major in the Department.
Awarded every spring semester.
Spring application deadline: Feb 5 (Committee decision by March 1st)
Application process: Jan 15 to Feb 5
The College of Arts