Sandra Sousa

With a Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, Sandra Sousa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Central Florida. Currently, she is a researcher for PielaAfrica (CNPq) and CLEPUL. Her research interests encompass colonialism and post-colonialism; colonial literature; racial relations in Mozambique; war, dictatorship, and violence in contemporary Portuguese and Luso-African literature. She has published essays and reviews in the USA, Brazil, and Portugal. She is the author of the books Ficções do Outro: Império, Raça e Subjectividade no Moçambique Colonial (Esfera do Caos, 2015) and Portugal Segundo os Estados Unidos da América (Theya Editores, 2021), as well as the co-editor of the books Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros (Colibri, 2017) and The Africas in the World and the World in the Africas: African Literatures and Comparativism (Quod Manet, 2022).
 
Works in the field of the colonial press 
(2022). Sousa, Sandra. “Literary discourses in the Portuguese colonial press.” In Machado, Adelaide Vieira; Fonseca, Isadora Ataíde; Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Newman, Robert. Creating and opposing Empire: the role of the colonial periodical press. London & New York: Routledge, 79-96.
 
(2019). Sousa, Sandra. “Silêncios no feminino no Boletim da Agência Geral das Colónias/do Ultramar.” Ex-aequo, 39, 55-69.  

(2019). Sousa, Sandra. “The Portuguese Colonial Press and the Estado Novo.” Diadorim, 21, 57-71. 

Fields of interest
Colonialism and postcolonialism; colonial press; Portuguese colonial literature; racial relations in Mozambique; women writing.

Key words
War; dictatorship and violence; Luso-African literatures.