Ligia Bezerra
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Lígia Bezerra was born in Várzea Alegre, Ceará, Brazil. She moved to the United States in 2006, where she completed a master's in Portuguese at the University of New Mexico and a doctorate in Portuguese with a minor in cultural studies at Indiana University. She also holds a master's in linguistics from Universidade Federal do Ceará. She taught Portuguese and English language and linguistics in Brazil, and has taught Portuguese and Spanish language and Lusophone literature and culture in the United States. Bezerra's research interests include Latin American literature and culture, consumption, everyday life, neoliberalism, and democracy. She has published articles in journals such as Chasqui, Journal of Lusophone Studies (formerly known as ellipsis), Revista de Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Luso-Brazilian Review, and Cultural Studies. Her book, Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction (Purdue University Press, 2022), is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure. Her current project focuses on how Brazilian Popular Music articulates resistance to anti-democratic forces in the twenty-first century.
- Ph.D. Portuguese; minor: Cultural Studies, Indiana University
- M.A. Portuguese, University of New Mexico
- M.A. Linguistics, Universidade Federal do Ceara
- B.A. Letras (Portuguese and English), Universidade Federal do Ceara
Consumption, everyday life, neoliberalism, democracy, contemporary Latin American fiction, Lusophone literature and culture
Books
Published
Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 85, Purdue University Press, 2022.
Available at: http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781612497587
In progress
Tentative title: Defending Democracy: Twenty-First Century Brazilian Songs of Protest.
For more research publications, see Dr. Bezerra's CV
See Dr. Bezerra's CV
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 792 | Research |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POR 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
POR 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
POR 301 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
POR 590 | Reading and Conference |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POR 301 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
POR 301 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
POR 590 | Reading and Conference |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
POR 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
POR 301 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 201 | Intermediate Portuguese I |
POR 201 | Intermediate Portuguese I |
POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
POR 590 | Reading and Conference |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SPA 592 | Research |
SPA 590 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 799 | Dissertation |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SPA 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
POR 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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SPA 792 | Research |
SPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
SPA 595 | Continuing Registration |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
---|---|
POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
SPA 792 | Research |
POR 590 | Reading and Conference |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POR 320 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
POR 320 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
SLC 460 | Brazilian Society Thru Music |
POR 460 | Brazilian Society Thru Music |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
POR 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POR 320 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
POR 320 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
POR 320 | Portuguese Spanish Spkrs I |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 590 | Reading and Conference |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POR 194 | Special Topics |
SLC 194 | Special Topics |
POR 598 | Special Topics |
HON 194 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
POR 314 | Portuguese Comp/Conversation |
SPA 494 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POR 493 | Honors Thesis |
POR 313 | Portuguese Comp/Conversation |
POR 484 | Internship |
POR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POR 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
POR 492 | Honors Directed Study |