American Studies Over_Seas 2: (Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across the Atlantic

Edgardo Medeiros da Silva, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English at the School of Social and Political Sciences of Universidade de Lisboa and a researcher in American Studies with ULICES—ULisboa Centre for English Studies. Margarida Vale de Gato, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the areas of translation and U.S. literature in the School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, where she coordinates the American Studies program. Mário Avelar, PhD, is Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, where he is the head of the English Department and director of the PhD and MA programs in this field. Irene Maria F. Blayer, PhD, is Full Professor at Brock University. Her research includes comparative Romance linguistics, linguistic ethnography, diaspora studies, im/migrant narrative discourse, and identity construction. Dulce Maria Scott, PhD, is Full Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Anderson University. Her research has focused on immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States, including immigrant women, Hispanic ethnic entrepreneurship in central Indiana, and Portuguese Americans. Tony McGowan, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at West Point, where he co-directs the Diversity and Inclusion minor. He teaches American literature and critical theory, and his most recent publication on Melville appeared in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

“‘Art urges Voyages,’ notes Gwendolyn Brooks, offering the perfect epigraph to this ebullient second volume of . Redolent with the salty smell of the sea, these contributions by poets, translators and scholars float trans-oceanic experiences to our welcoming selves. The pieces speak homage to the ‘two Teresas,’ visionary activists of ‘cultural diplomacy’ in Portuguese American Studies. We have short stories, histories, fantasies, poems, essays and various other explorations in language and imagination; we experience breathy adventures of then/there to here/now, the epic past to our individual now. Ancient Greece. The Azores. Newfoundland. Africa. New Bedford. Brooklyn. We are launched on the transition/translation of languages: ‘ .’ The collection navigates our intercultural belongings with flair and ease and great delight.”—Marilyn S. Zucker, Stony Brook University

"This volume helps renovate existing ideas about Transnational American Studies. Deeply invested with the cutting-edge transdisciplinary practices currently employed in the field, it examines American literary history centered on seafaring, combining academic essays, personal accounts of scholarly exchanges, and creative writing pieces by poets and novelists. Foregrounding the Portuguese American experience, it provides a unique multicultural perspective for Americanists and general readers alike."—Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University