ZITA NUNES
The researcher discussed issues such as identity, literature,
similarities and differences among American countries. An Assistant Professor
at the Department of English and Compared Literature at the University
of Maryland, College Park, Zita C. Nunes has published papers on culture
and politics, race and democracy. She did her postgraduate work in Literature,
studying texts originally written in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
and Yoruba. Zita C. Nunes is currently writing a book on the photography
of Cape Verde (in progress), and another one on American literature, race,
and democracy (yet to be published). Nunes has been a visiting researcher
and guest professor in Latin-American study centers such as Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidad Interamericana (Buenos Aires, Argentina),
and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo, Mozambique). She was a member
of the board of advisors for the Brazilian art exhibition “Body
and Soul”, at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York (2001-2002). Nunes
has studied Brazilian modernism, and she applies the notion of anthropophagy
to ideas regarding the building of identity in the United States during
the twentieth century.Zita C. Nunes
Waterbury (Connecticut), United States, 1961. Lives and works in Washington, DC.
Essay "Loving our children to death": Identification and the African diaspora (PDF)
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