Alexandra ISFAHANI-HAMMOND - Ph.D. (UC Berkeley) Primary Office: LIT 337 Primary Phone: (858) 534-8695 Email: aisfahani@ucsd.edu Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature, PhD in Comparative Literature (UC Berkeley, 2000) Research and Teaching Interests: Atlantic studies; species studies and posthumanism; race discourse; Lusophone African literatures and cultures; the Middle East in American imaginaries; postcolonial theory.

Selected Publications Books "Brazilian Humanimalia: Species and Postcoloniality in Literature and Film" (In progress) White Negritude: Race, Writing and Brazilian Cultural Identity. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries (Editor). Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005. Articles and Book Chapters "Animals that Matter: Humana Festa, Abolitionism and the Postslavery Novel" (Submitted). "Of She-Wolves and Mad Cows: Animality, Anthropophagy and the State of Exception in Claudio Assis's ‘Amarelo Manga'" (Submitted) "Aristocratas da Senzala: Gilberto Freyre na Interseção do Orientalismo e dos Estudos de Escravidão." Afro-Ásia, Vol. 37, 2008.1. Also translated into Englash as "Slave Barracks Aristocrats: Gilberto Freyre in the Intersection between Orientalism and Slavery Studies." The Middle East and Brazil: South-South Relations, Hybrid Migrations, Transnational Politics, eds. Paul Amar and Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto (Forthcoming). "Joaquim Nabuco's Black Mandate." Hispania, 2002. 466-476. Other Professional Activities Interview with Regina Rheda, "Literatura, Talento e Conciência." Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais.http://www.anda.jor.br/?p=3002. April, 2009. Interviewee. "African Diaspora Literature in Latin America." National Public Radio/Modern Language Association program entitled "What's the Word?" Fall, 2007.