Dr. Kevin Ennis

Biography

Kevin W. Ennis holds a Ph.D. in Portuguese Brazilian Studies and Doctoral Certificates in Hispanic Studies and Collaborative Humanities from Brown University, and a B.A. in Latin American Studies and Portuguese from Yale University. His teaching practice focuses on building a community of lifelong learners in the classroom. He engages students by turning questions around literature, art, and cultural practices into discussions that help make sense of the world while actively listening to diverse voices. His research interests are in Amazonian literary and cultural studies, the Indigenous literary and artistic practices of Latin America, and the cultural responses to coloniality in the Portuguese-speaking world, including Brazil and East Timor. Ennis's current research project examines the extractivist dynamics that shape the imaginaries of the Amazon as a geocultural, literary, and social space, particularly through Brazilian and Peruvian texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, especially Indigenous literatures and arts from the region. He is also involved in academic governance as the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Lusophone Studies and serves as Treasurer for the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

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