Department Faculty Profile - Dr. Robert N. Anderson
| Robert Anderson |  |
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Associate Professor of Portuguese, Department of World Languages and Cultures Phone: (336) 750-3452 335 Hall-Patterson 601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27110 |
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| Background | |
| • B.A., Curriculum in Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1975 • M.A., Foreign Language Education Center, School of Education, University of Texas at Austin, August 1980, Report: "A Graphics Production Guide for Teachers" • M.A., Department of Romance Languages, with a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies from the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1984, Thesis: "A Semiotic Approach to the Theater of Oswald de Andrade" • Ph.D., Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 1990, Dissertation: "Theatrical Semiosis in the Drama of Gianfrancesco Guarnieri" |
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| Position Responsibilities | |
| • Develop and teach all Portuguese language and Afro-Luso-Brazilian studies courses • Develop and teach Literature in Translation / World Literature courses • Serve on the WSSU IAPP India Task Force and as co-PI on WSSU's NEH faculty development grant, "Integrating India into the Liberal Arts Curriculum." • Serve as WSSU project director for a US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, "Legacies of the African Diaspora in Brazil and the United States: Persistent Inequalities," • Co-Chair, Brazil Advisory Committee, University of North Carolina Exchange Program (UNC-EP) / faculty advisor |
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| Credentials | |
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Courses Taught: Advanced Portuguese Conversation (WSSU POR 3309); Advanced Portuguese Composition (WSSU POR 4301) Brazilian and Lusophone African Literature in Translation (WSSU POR 3311); Brazilian Culture (WSSU POR 3310); Culture and Society in Brazil and Africa (WSSU POR 4390); Cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking World (WSSU POR 3312); Elementary Portuguese (WSSU POR 1311 and 1312); Intermediate Portuguese (WSSU POR 2311 and 2312); Spanish Phonetics (WSSU SPA 3312); Survey of Literature in Portuguese (WSSU 3333); World Literature I (WSSU ENG 2301); World Literature: India and Beyond (WSSU ENG 2303) |
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| Research Interest |
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| Afro-Brazilian studies, Brazilian performing arts and poetry 1945-present, Portuguese presence in India and Goan literature. | |
| Philosophy |
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| The "subject-centered" concept of Parker Palmer in The Courage to Teach, in which students and teachers form a "community of truth" with critical attention focused on the subject, while avoiding the "banking model" of education that Paulo Freire criticizes. | |
