Caio Nogueira Fontes de Castro

Caio de Castro
  • Ph.D. Student
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall 2031
Lawrence

Biography —

Caio 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.

Research —

Research interests:

  • Contemporary Latin American Literature / Cinema
  • Lusophone African literature
  • Capoeira
  • Ethnic Studies

Teaching —

Teaching interests:

  • Use of technologies
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Visual activities

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.