天美传媒

UMass Boston

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Jose Rodrigues

Department:
Latin American/Iberian Studies
Title:
Adjunct Faculty
Director: Cam玫es Center for Portuguese Language
Location:
Healey Library Floor 06 00015
Phone:

617.287.3815

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Biography

José da Cunha Rodrigues is the Director of the Camões Center for Portuguese Language (CPL) at the 天美传媒. The CPL was established in 2009 as a joint venture between the Latin American & Iberian Studies Department and the Camões Institute, I.P., Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Lusophone Literature and Culture. He is a faculty member in the Romance Languages & Literatures Department at Boston College. Also, he serves as an Educational advisor for the Coordination of Portuguese Education in the USA at the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston. Since 2022, he has been a researcher in Group 5, Literatures, Arts, and Transcultures at The Centre for Global Studies (CEG-UAb). He has published various articles, papers, and books in Portuguese and English. À Luz da Kabbalah (2008) includes a preface by Valter Hugo Mãe, Jose Saramago Literary Prize winner.

Area of Expertise

All levels of Portuguese Language and Literature. Afro-Luso-Brazilian Cinema and Literature. Portuguese as a foreign and second language; Portuguese for heritage speakers; Portuguese for Spanish speakers; differentiated instruction in Lusophone and Hispanophone languages and literatures; student-centered learning in a multicultural environment; bilingual and bicultural proficiency, and cooperative learning.

Degrees

Ph.D. Lusophone/Portuguese Literature & Culture, Aberta University, in partnership with Brown University, 2022

M.A. in Portuguese Literature, Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal, 2017

Post-Graduation in Portuguese Post-Colonial Studies, Coimbra University/University of Bologna, 2015

B.A. in Education, Major: Portuguese & German, Minho University, Portugal, 1999

Professional Publications & Contributions

Selected / Referred Articles

  • 2024
    , Anthology. organized by Gerson Roani, José Rodrigues, Lyslei Nascimento, and Silvana Pêssoa, Editora Mercado de Letras.
  • , Rodrigues, José da Cunha, Glossário Comentado: Diáspora, imigração portuguesa e tradição.) (Portuguese Edition) vol. 3. 
  • 2023
    . Vol. 5 Núm. 3 (2023): ÑEMIT峄窻Ã – Revista Multilingüe de Lengua, Sociedad y Educación Publicación del Instituto Superior de Lenguas de la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción.
  • 2022
    , org. Congresso Internacional “Figurações Interartes” (CLEPUL, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa).
  •  pp-9-30 in Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG (Brasil) v. 16 n. 31

Edition/Translation/Preface

  • 2021
    (Book) Shlomo Pereira and Eli Rosenfeld. Chabad Press Portugal. (bilingual edition)
  • (Book)  Shlomo Pereira and Eli Rosenfeld. Chabad Press Portugal. (bilingual edition)
  • (Book) . Shlomo Pereira and Eli Rosenfeld. Chabad Press Portugal. (bilingual edition)
  • 2020
    Revista Philos,
  • 2008
    (Book) , José Cunha Rodrigues, Guerra & Paz publishing 
  • 2006
    (Book) , Yehuda Berg. José da Cunha Rodrigues (translation/preface) Bertrand publishers 

Additional Information

Office: Healey Library, 6th floor, room 12

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