Ellen Sapega
Professor, Ph. D., Vanderbilt University
Professor Sapega specializes in 20th century Portuguese literature and culture.
Her publications include articles and book chapters on Fernando Pessoa,
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, memory, visual culture and commemoration
since the late 19th century, and the contemporary Portuguese novel. She
is the author of Ficções Modernistas: Um Estudo da Obra
em Prosa de José de Almada Negreiros (Lisboa: Instituto de Cultura
e Língua Portuguesa) and Consensus and Debate in Salazar’s
Portugal: Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text (Forthcoming—Penn
State UP). Professor Sapega is currently at work on a project that examines
cultural productions of the Cape Verdean diaspora in Europe and the U.S.
She is also the co-editor of the Luso-Brazilian Review.
