Jorge Fazenda Lourenço
JORGE FAZENDA LOURENÇO received his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Santa Barbara in July 1993, and he is Professor of Literature and Portuguese Culture at the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) since September of that same year.
He has been visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona. His research interests include poetry, the Bildungsroman, modernism and theories of modernity. From 2005 onwards, he has been the scientific coordinator of the Communication and Culture Research Centre and of the Master and PhD Programs in Culture Studies.
He is the author of three books of essays on Jorge de Sena (1987, 1998, 2002), two bibliographies of Sena’s work (1991, 1994), and the editor of five anthologies of his poetry and prose (1989, 1989, 1999, 2002, 2004). He published several essays on modern and contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian literatures, and an anthology of Fernando Pessoa poetry (1985). He had edited an anthology of critical writings by Charles Baudelaire (2006) and a translation of Le Spleen de Paris (2007) by the same author. He also translated an anthology of poems by E. E. Cummings (1991) and Harmonium by Wallace Stevens (2006). He co-edited the proceedings of the international colloquium Guerra Civil de Espanha: Cruzando Fronteiras 70 Anos Depois (2007).
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