Dario Borim

Professor and Chairperson of the Department Portuguese Dário Borim is also translator, creative writer, concert producer, photographer and radio programmer. A native from Minas Gerais, Brazil, he holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Linguistics and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literature, cinema, theater, and music. Borim's essays and translations have appeared in various anthologies, such as Poéticas da diversidade, by Ed. UFMG, Bodies and Biases: Issues of Sexualities in Hispanic Cultures, by Univ. of Minn. Press, and Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes, by Greenwood Press. His writings have been included in books and periodicals from Brazil, Belgium, Croatia, England, France, Peru, Poland, Taiwan and the United States. Mainly adopting a socio-historical approach, Borim's academic publications discuss a plethora of genres, topics, and authors, including Gloria Anzaldua, Machado de Assis, Manuel Bandeira, Herbert Daniel, Fernando Gabeira, Bernardo Guimarães, Adrienne Kennedy, Clarice Lispector, Eliane Maciel, Rigoberta Menchú, Nelson Rodrigues, Sérgio Sant'Anna, Vera Sant'Anna, Piri Thomas, Caetano Veloso, Luis Fernando Verissimo, and Malcolm X.