Reinaldo Silva
Published Works
Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature, published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008
Portuguese American Literature by Humanities-Ebooks, in the United Kingdom, in 2009
Bio
Born in Portugal in 1961, Reinaldo Francisco Silva emigrated to America in 1967, settling in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated in both the United States and Portugal and holds dual citizenship. He has lectured at Rutgers University, New York University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Seton Hall University, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His teaching and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth- century American literature and contemporary emergent literatures, with a special focus on Portuguese-American writers. He has published about forty articles in such peer-reviewed journals as The Steinbeck Review, The Journal of American Culture, Ethnic Studies Review, Columbia Journal of American Studies, Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies, Frank Norris Studies, Yeats Eliot Review, encyclopedia entries in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature and Dictionary of Literary Biography, chapters in books such as John Steinbeck and his Contemporaries and Storytelling the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together and has also authored two books: Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature, published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008, and Portuguese American Literature by Humanities-Ebooks, in the United Kingdom, in 2009.
Blog: http://blogs.ua.pt/dlc/reinaldosilva/
Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature, published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008
Portuguese American Literature by Humanities-Ebooks, in the United Kingdom, in 2009
Bio
Born in Portugal in 1961, Reinaldo Francisco Silva emigrated to America in 1967, settling in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated in both the United States and Portugal and holds dual citizenship. He has lectured at Rutgers University, New York University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Seton Hall University, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His teaching and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth- century American literature and contemporary emergent literatures, with a special focus on Portuguese-American writers. He has published about forty articles in such peer-reviewed journals as The Steinbeck Review, The Journal of American Culture, Ethnic Studies Review, Columbia Journal of American Studies, Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies, Frank Norris Studies, Yeats Eliot Review, encyclopedia entries in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature and Dictionary of Literary Biography, chapters in books such as John Steinbeck and his Contemporaries and Storytelling the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together and has also authored two books: Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature, published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008, and Portuguese American Literature by Humanities-Ebooks, in the United Kingdom, in 2009.
Blog: http://blogs.ua.pt/dlc/reinaldosilva/
