His research focuses on questions of power, marginality and the fluctuating problem of the other in Chilean and Brazilian narrative and Portuguese popular culture. He is the author of the book Las últimas obras de José Donoso: Juegos, roles y rituales en la subversión del poder (Madrid: Pliegos, 2001) and the articles “Cannibalistic Perspectives: Paradoxical Duplication and the mise en abyme in Clarice Lispector’s ‘A menor mulher do mundo’,” in the Luso-Brazilian Review (v41.2: 2005) and “Gabriel de Oliveira’s ‘Há Festa na Mouraria’ and the Fado Novo’s Criticism of the Estado Novo’s Demolition of the Baixa Mouraria,” in Portuguese Studies (v20: 2004). His current research examines the problematic relationship between the lyrics of the Lisbon fado and the aesthetics of Portuguese Fascism. E-mail: michael.colvin@simmons.edu