Luis Madureira
Associate Professor
Professor Madureira holds a degree in Comparative Literature, and his major
areas of specialization include Luso-Brazilian colonial and postcolonial
studies, as well as Modernism and Modernity in Latin America, Africa and
the Caribbean. He has written two books, Imaginary Geographies in Portuguese
and Lusophone-African Literature: Narratives of Discovery and Empire (2007),
which studies figurations of empire, nation and revolution in Portuguese
and Lusophone African literatures, and Cannibal Modernities (2005),
a reexamination of the Brazilian and Caribbean avant-gardes from a postcolonial
perspective. He has published several articles on topics ranging from Luso-Brazilian
literature and cinema to early modern travel narratives and postcolonial
theory. His current research focuses on Mozambican theatre and the politics
of time in contemporary Lusophone fiction.
