Caio Nogueira Fontes De Castro
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures - Department of Spanish and PortugueseCaio de Castro is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. He received his M.A. from the University of Kansas Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He was a former Fulbright Portuguese teacher at Florida Memorial University, in Miami. He received a B.A. in Foreign Language - English from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Teaching Interests
- Use of technologies
- Collaborative Learning
- Visual activities
Research Interests
- Contemporary Latin American Literature / Cinema
- Lusophone African literature
- Capoeira
- Ethnic Studies
Selected Presentations
Paper presentation: “Olga: Rites of Passage and Gender Relations in Brazilian Society. Fiction and History”. American Portuguese Studies Association – 11th Conference. October 2018 Ann Arbor, MI – U.S.A.
Poster presentation: “Comics As A Catalyst Element Of Interculturality In The ELF Classroom”. The 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. May 2012. Istanbul -Turkey.
Panel presentation: “Comics As A Catalyst Element Of Interculturality In The ELF Classroom”. SLA- Seminar of Applied Linguistics. November 2010. UFBA- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
