Antonio Luciano Tosta

Antonio Luciano Tosta
  • Director, Center for Global & International Studies
  • Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
  • RESEARCH INTEREST: Brazil's transnational movements in literature, music, & cinema
  • REGION: Brazil and other Lusophone countries

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Biography —

Luciano Tosta has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and Master's degrees in Comparative Literature and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University. Dr. Tosta also has a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a Fulbright scholar. Prof. Tosta did his undergraduate studies at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, where he earned a Bachelor degree and a Licenciatura in English. Before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his graduate studies at Brown, Dr. Tosta taught at Harvard University, Boston University, and Rhode Island College. He received Harvard University's Certificate of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching, and featured on the University of Illinois's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. He was awarded the University of Kansas Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2016-2017 Jessie Marie Senor Cramer and Ann Cramer Root Faculty Award in recognition of meritorious teaching and research. In Brazil, he taught at the Federal and State Universities of Bahia. His publications on Brazilian and Brazilian-American literature, film, and music have appeared in several journals and as book chapters in the United States, Brazil, Canada, and England. Journals include Afro-Hispanic Review, Revista Iberoamericana, Luso-Brazilian Review, Letras de Hoje, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, Chasqui, Romance Notes, Gávea-Brown, Estudos Portugueses e Africanos, and Hispania. Dr. Tosta also co-edited the Luso-American Literature: Writings by Portuguese-speaking Authors in North America (Rutgers UP, 2011) and Brazil (ABC/CLIO, 2016). His book Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation Making in the Americas was published with Bucknell University Press in 2016. It won the 2016 Vice Chancellor for Research Book Publication Award at the University of Kansas. He is currently working on a second book manuscript tentatively entitled Brazilian American Literature and U.S. Brazilian Literature: Transamerican Politics, Postcolonial Readings.

Research —

My current research is in the field of hemispheric American studies. I am particularly interested in Brazil's transnational movements in fiction and art in general. The study of the nation, its definitions and configurations, movements, and spaces, are at the core of my work. My research is theoretically grounded on the fields of postcolonial, ethnic, and subaltern studies. Other areas on which I have focused my work are the relationship between fiction and history, the study of representations of the city in literature and film, and the sublime.

Teaching —

My teaching interests include 19th and 20th Century Brazilian literature, Brazilian culture (especially cinema and music), the ethnic literatures and cultures of the Americas (particularly Afro-Brazilian, African American, and Afro Latin American, Brazilian-American, and Latina/o), Contemporary Portuguese Literature, and literary and critical theory.

Selected Publications —

Tosta, A. (2017). Milton Hatoum: Interweaving the Local and the Global. Critical Insights-Latin American Fiction. (pp. 134-149). Salem University Press.
Tosta, A. (2016). Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas. Bucknell Univ Pr. [9781611487558].
Tosta, A. (2016). Immigration, Transnationalism, and Transmigration in Grandma Has a Video Camera. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures - Issue 1 | Volume 1. https://doi.org/10.2979/CHIRICU.1.1.06.
Tosta, A., Coutinho, E. (2015). Brazil: . Abc-Clio Inc. [9781610692571].
Tosta, A. (2013). Fictional and everyday violence: the Brazilian audience as an interpretive community of Brazilian cinema. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes - Issue 1 | Volume 38. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2014.883824.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (2012). The Other as Self or Other? "Latinidade" and the Politics of Identification in Brazuca Novels. Gávea-Brown - Issue 2012-2013 | Volume XXXIV-XXXV.
De Andrade Tosta, A., Moser, R., . (2011). Luso-American Literature: Writings by Portuguese-speaking Authors in North America. Rutgers University Press.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (2011). Lyrics and Voice: Resistance and Citizenship in the Songs of Ilê Aiyê and Olodum. Afro-Hispanic Review - Issue 2 | Volume 29.
Tosta, A. (2011). Modern and Postcolonial?: Oswald de Andrade's Antropofagia and the Politics of Labeling. Romance Notes - Issue 2 | Volume 51. https://doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2011.0011.
Tosta, A. (2009). Scribere est agere ou o direito ao grito: o intelectual deprimido e a hora do subalterno em A Hora da estrela. Revista Iberoamericana - Issue 226 | Volume 75. https://doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2009.6563.
Tosta, A. (2009). Scribere Est Agere ou O Direito ao Grito: O Intelectual Oprimido e a Hora do Subalterno em A Hora da Estrela. Revista Iberoamericana. - Issue 226 | Volume 75.
Tosta, A. (2008). Is There a Brazilian American Cinema? Aesthetics and Identity in A Fronteira and Nailed!. The Other Latinos. (pp. 257-284). Harvard Univ David Rockefeller. [9780674025899].
Tosta, A. (2007). American Dream, Jeitinho Brasileiro: On the Crossroads of Cultural Identities in Brazilian-American Literature. A Companion to Us Latino Literatures. (pp. 140-157). Tamesis Books Ltd. [9781855661394].
De Andrade Tosta, A., Ortiz Camargo, G., Denófrio, D. (2006). Uma In(ter)venção da Memória: A Universalização do Particular na Poesia Histórica de Cora Coralina. G. Ortiz Camargo, D. Denófrio (Eds.). Cora Coralina: Celebração da Volta. (pp. 15-35). Cânone.
Tosta, A. (2005). Between Heaven and Hell: Perceptions of Brazil and the United States in "Brazuca" Literature. Hispania - Issue 4 | Volume 88. https://doi.org/10.2307/20063175.
De Andrade Tosta, A., Mota, K., Scheyerl, D. (2004). Além de Textos e Contextos: Língua Estrangeira, Poesia e Consciência Cultural Crítica. K. Mota, D. Scheyerl (Eds.). Recortes Interculturais na Sala de Aula de Línguas Estrangeiras. (pp. 107-41). EDUFBA (Federal University of Bahia Press).
Tosta, A. (2004). The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World: Latino, eu? The Paradoxical Interplay of Identity in Brazuca Literature. Hispania - Issue 3 | Volume 87. https://doi.org/10.2307/20063064.
Tosta, A. (2004). Latino, Eu? The Paradoxical Interplay of Identity in Brazuca Literature. HISPANIA - Issue 3 | Volume 87.
Tosta, A. (2004). Machado de Assis: A obra entreaberta. Luso-Brazilian Review - Issue 1 | Volume 41. https://doi.org/10.3368/LBR.41.1.37.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (2003). Exchanging Glances: The Streetcar, Modernity, and the Metropolis in Brazilian Literature. Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana - Issue 2 | Volume 32.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (2003). Murmúrios textuais, históricos e pósmodernos em A costa dos murmúrios. EPA. Estudos Portugueses e Africanos - Volume 41.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (2001). O ‘Sublime’ Sertão em O Sertanejo, Os Sertões e Grande Sertão: Veredas. Letras de Hoje - Issue 1 | Volume 36.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (2001). Laugh and Learn: Thinking Over the Funny Teacher Myth. English Teaching Forum - Issue 1 | Volume 39.
De Andrade Tosta, A. (1996). Poetry? It’s Worth a Try!. English Teaching Forum - Issue 3-4 | Volume 34.
Tosta, A., Moser, R. Capoeira and Globalization: Interdisciplinary Studies of an Afro-Brazilian Cultural Form.
De Andrade Tosta, A. Palimpsestic Time: Brazilian American Literature, U.S. Brazilian Literature and the Adherence to Coloniality.

Awards & Honors —

2016-2017 Jessie Marie Senor Cramer and Ann Cramer Root Faculty Award. The University of Kansas Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Received: 5-01-2017.
Vice Chancellor for Research Book Publication Award. The University of Kansas. Received: 1-31-2016.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. Received: 12-31-2012.
Brown University Joukovsky Dissertation Fellowship. Received: 12-31-2004.
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching. Received: 12-31-2004.
Brown University Fellowship. Received: 12-31-2000.
Fulbright Fellowship. State University of New York at Buffalo. Received: 12-31-1999.