Charles A. Perrone

Professor Emeritus of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Culture & Literature

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
UF Dauer Hall 170 Gainesville, FL 32611-7405
Telephones: (352) 392 2016 (main)

Affiliate faculty formerly housed in the Center for Latin American Studies
Former Coordinator, specialization in Brazilian Studies
UF Grinter Hall 319 Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
Telephone: (352) 392 0375 (front desk)

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Areas of Interest / Expertises

Modern Brazilian literature, especially contemporary lyric. Inter-American studies. Luso-Brazilian culture/civilization. Brazilian/Latin American song/popular music. Translation.

Books published Spring 2022:  full translation of Toda Poesia by Paulo Leminski, with Ivan Justen Santana. The complete poems and some critical apparatus. ALL POETRY, New London Librarium (sells via Amazon Books) / Chico Buarque’s First Chico Buarque (on the 1978 LP) in Bloomsbury Academic, Brazil 33 1/3 series. The press has its own webspace and a page for each book // Designs: Blueprints of Floorplans of a Provisional Residence (poems assembled in 2001 in Gainesville, now published by cyberwit; also sells via Amazon).

Education

Ph. D. University of  Texas at Austin, 1985, Luso-Brazilian Literature (and Spanish American Narrative)
M. A. University of California at Irvine, 1976, Hispanic Literatures (and Brazilian Literature)
B. A.  University of California at Santa Cruz, 1973, Literature, Spanish and American

Contact Information

Email: perrone@ufl.edu

 Dário Borim, photographer. My CLAS photo at the end of Publications / Presentations.