Daniela Meireles

Instructor of Portuguese and Spanish

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures

The University of Texas at Austin
M.A. in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures

The University of New Mexico
M.A. in Portuguese

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
B.A. in English

Research Interests

Dr. Daniela Meireles earned her Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research on inter-American cultures focuses on contemporary Brazilian and Spanish-American literature and film and examines the ways such cultural production challenges mainstream discourses of hemispheric citizenship. She analyzes mainly how Brazilian cultural production adds to discourses of pan-Americanism and pan-latinidad. Professor Daniela Meireles joined the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Charleston in the Fall 2019 where she is currently an Instructor of Spanish and Portuguese and has been serving the Department as part of the Portuguese Program Steering Committee and co-advising the National Portuguese Honor Society Phi Lambda Beta. She also advises the Portuguese Club at CofC. More recently, Dr. Meireles became a Global Scholar Faculty Member.

Courses Taught

Intermediate Portuguese I

Intermediate Portuguese II

Elementary Spanish

Intermediate Spanish

Spanish Skills Review

Publications

Meireles, Daniela Cristina Leal. “Hollywood como modelo cultural na ditadura chilena? Identidade e agência cultural em Tony Manero (Chile, 2008) de Pablo Larraín.” Revista Garrafa: 36, 2015.26-40.

Meireles, Daniela Cristina Leal. “Rinhas de Humanos: violência e negação de cidadania em Entre Rinhas de Cachorros e Porcos Abatidos de Ana Paula Maia.” Krypton: 5/6, 2015. 208-216. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13134/2282-3301/627

Meireles, Daniela. “TragiCIDADE- a violenta relação entre as diferentes classes sociais nos centros urbanos brasileiros e sua representação na literatura contemporânea.”  LAII Research Paper Series: 58, 2011.1-30.

Honors and Awards

Global Scholar Faculty Member