American Studies Over_Seas 2: (Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across the Atlantic

Edgardo Medeiros da Silva, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English at the School of Social and Political Sciences of Universidade de Lisboa and a researcher in American Studies with ULICES—ULisboa Centre for English Studies. Margarida Vale de Gato, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the areas of translation and U.S. literature in the School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, where she coordinates the American Studies program.Mário Avelar, PhD, is Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, where he is the head of the English Department and director of the PhD and MA programs in this field.Irene Maria F. Blayer, PhD, is Full Professor at Brock University. Her research includes comparative Romance linguistics, linguistic ethnography, diaspora studies, im/migrant narrative discourse, and identity construction. Dulce Maria Scott, PhD, is Full Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Anderson University. Her research has focused on immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States, including immigrant women, Hispanic ethnic entrepreneurship in central Indiana, and Portuguese Americans.Tony McGowan, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at West Point, where he co-directs the Diversity and Inclusion minor. He teaches American literature and critical theory, and his most recent publication on Melville appeared in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

"This volume helps renovate existing ideas about Transnational American Studies. Deeply invested with the cutting-edge transdisciplinary practices currently employed in the field, it examines American literary history centered on seafaring, combining academic essays, personal accounts of scholarly exchanges, and creative writing pieces by poets and novelists. Foregrounding the Portuguese American experience, it provides a unique multicultural perspective for Americanists and general readers alike."—Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University

• Dedication – Ana Luísa Amaral: Ode à Minha Mão: Navegações | Ode to My Hand: Navigations – Introduction by the Editors – Maria Helena de Paiva Correia: An Invocation for Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid, via John Donne and Emily Dickinson – Ana Cristina Alves: A Sketch of Two Women Warriors – Katherine Vaz: Tales of Two Teresas – Frank X. Gaspar: Love What You Will Quickly – Juliet Antunes Sablosky: American Studies and Cultural Diplomacy – Ronald Johnson/Randy Bass/George O’Brien/Lucy Maddox: Atlantic Partnership: The Georgetown University/ University of Lisbon Faculty Exchange, 1995–2006 – Maria Laura Bettencourt Pires: Friendship Overseas for a Better World – Heinz Ickstadt: What the Brooklyn Bridge Talks About When It Dreams: A Fantasy – Diana V. Almeida/Margarida Vale de Gato: "Immodest Demands for a Different World": The Portuguese Maritime Voyages in US Verse by Women – Isabel Oliveira Martins: Women’s Diasporic Trajectories in Katherine Vaz’s Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories – Jorge Fazenda Lourenço: Ageing in America: Some Remarks on Jorge de Sena’s Poetry of Exile, 1965–1968 – Reinaldo Francisco Silva: Herman Melville’s "The ‘Gees’: Dramatizing America’s Fear of Racial Commixture" – Edgardo Medeiros da Silva: Islanders, Sailors, and Democratic Dignity: Azorean Seamen in Melville’s Moby-Dick; or The Whale – Dulce Maria Scott: Portuguese Americans: Ethnic Group en Route to Assimilation, or Diaspora in the Making? – Onésimo Teotónio Almeida: The Magic of George Monteiro’s Osmosis: American Literature in the Lusophone World, Portuguese Literature in America – Nancy Vieira Couto: Two Portuguese American Poems – Darrel Kastin: The Man from Africa – Julian Silva: My Father the Truck Driver – Richard Simas: Chronicles from an Imaginary Voyage – Scott Edward Anderson: Wine Dark Sea – Dean Ellis: Two Lisbon Poems – Stuart Blazer: Fall River Fado – Notes on Contributors – Tabula Gratulatoria – Index.