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Dissertation: Ethnic Minorities in Brazil and Spain: Erasure & Stigmatization, Gender, and Self-
Representation of Indigenous and Roma Communities. Co-directed by Dr. Malcolm Compitello and Dr.
Katia Bezerra.
My research offers interdisciplinary work on the use of media by marginalized ethnic minorities for self-
representation, using as its frame of reference scholars such as Faye Ginsburg, Gayatri Spivak, Judith
Butler, Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe, and David Harvey. Specifically, my dissertation examines Indigenous
communities in Brazil and the Roma (Gypsy) population of Spain. My work uncovers the multiple
discourses through which ethnic identities have to be negotiated within a larger dominant culture,
especially in contexts of globalization, and brings to this discussion the theorization of new media. Based
on interviews with media producers, I discuss community radio stations, online network groups, video
making, and blogs, and how these constitute different tools for promoting culture and conducting political
activism. I found that despite the efforts of both Indigenous and Roma groups in using these new media as
a non-hegemonic sort of communication, their invisibility as a subject is repeated, even when
sympathetically supported by the discourse of cultural diversity. Ultimately, I bring together their similarities
and differences to determine how these technologies can be both helpful or hinder the self-affirmation and
increased autonomy of these groups.
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Roanoke College Scholarship through the Institute of International Education (IIE) 2002
Undergraduate coursework in Languages and Literature 2001-2002
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
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Academic Honors
Teaching Experience
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Publications
Luna Freire, Juliana. “Whitening, Mixing, Darkening, and Developing: Everything but 2016
Indigenous.” Latin American Research Review (LARR). 51.3. 142-160.
Ferreira, Fernanda and Juliana Luna Freire. “Portuguese Heritage Language June 2015
Pedagogy: The current state of affairs and why we still need heritage learner tracks.”
Viewpoints Section of Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (De Gruyter, 2015)
Ed. by Rajiv Rao. Print.
Luna Freire, Juliana. “A radio of ‘Voces gitanas’: Issues of media identity and April 2015
self-representation in Barcelona.” International Journal of Iberian Studies. 27.1 (2015):
83-104. Print.
Compitello, Malcolm, and Juliana Luna Freire. Real Spaces, Virtual Places: Under review
Reflections on the Use of Virtual World for Cultural Studies
Luna Freire, Juliana. “Rescatando la escritura femenina: pioneras en periódicos de March 2010
Costa Rica a finales del siglo XIX”. Cien años después: la literatura de mujeres en
América Latina. El legado de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera y Clorinda Matto
de Turner. Claire Martin, ed. Peru: Universidad de San Martín de Porres, 2010.
99-110. Print.
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Carvalho, Ana M, Juliana Luna Freire, and Antonio J.B. da Silva. “Teaching March 2010
Portuguese to Spanish Speakers: A Case for Trilingualism.” Hispania 93.1 (2010):
70-75. Print.
Luna Freire, Juliana. “Urban Capitalism and Prostitution: An Analysis of Princesas.” Summer 2009
Divergencias. Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios 7.1 (2009) : 24-36.
Web. 2 Oct. 2011
Carvalho, Ana M, Juliana Luna Freire, and Antonio J B Silva. “Portuguese for Spanish Spring 2009
Speakers.” Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
(CERCLL) Dec 2009. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. <http://www.portspan.cercll.arizona.edu>
Luna Freire, Juliana. “Online Resources For ESL Students Online Resources for August 1, 2003
ESL Students.” Techlearning.com 1 Aug. 2003. Web. 2 Oct 2011.
Luna Freire, Juliana. Weekly Articles. Jornal Contraponto [João Pessoa, Brazil]. Print. July 2003 -
Weekly column at the culture section dealing with literature, culture, and teaching July 2005
pedagogy.
Published Reviews
Luna Freire, Juliana. Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship (Review). Submitted.
Luna Freire, Juliana. “White Gypsies (Review).” The Arizona Journal of Hispanic
Cultural Studies 18 (2014): 314-316. 2014
Luna Freire, Juliana. “Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics 2011
(review).” The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 15.1(2011): 209-211.
Luna Freire, Juliana. "All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema (review)." 2010
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 14 (2010): 386-387. Project MUSE.
Web. 2 Oct. 2011.
Luna Freire, Juliana. “Fragmentos de tu mar (review).” Divergencias: revista de 2010
estudios lingüísticos y literarios 8.1 (2010): 77. Web. 2 Oct. 2011
Presentations at Conferences
“Voces gitanas: Issue of media and self-representation.” Scholars on the Hill. November 2016
Framingham State University. Framingham, Massachusetts. November 18, 2016
“Cais, prostituição, caos e letras no porto do Recife: das palafitas à November 2016
prostituição gentrificada.” Midwest Modern Language
Association (MMLA). St. Louis, Missouri.
“La narrativa femenina sobre la Guerra Civil en los espacios de la November 2016
memoria: Inés y la Alegría, de Almudena Grandes y su guerra
interminable.” Midwest Modern Language
Association (MMLA). St. Louis, Missouri.
Organized the panel “Theorizations of Violence in Contemporary Brazil: Stasis and April 2016
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Change”, and presented “The Banality of Social Injustice: Branco sai, preto fica (2014)
and Protesting State Violence.” Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).
Brown University.
“Whitening, Mixing, Darkening, and Developing: Everything but Indigenous.” Invited February 2016
Talk. Penn State University.
“I Have Already Become an Image (2008): Issues of Art and Self-Representation in January 2016
Huni Kui Films.” University of Pittsburgh.
“’Tuga a fazer música fixe:’ inovação estética, modernidade e mercados globais na November 2015
música portuguesa contemporânea”. Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA).
Cleveland, Ohio.
“Espaços epistemológicos e novas tecnologias: os projetos de mídia dos Paiter-Suruí” May 2015
Latin American Research Association
San José, Puerto Rico
“Emerging Trends in Online Language Teaching: Lessons Learned on Assessment, March 2015
Interaction, and Curriculum Planning”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
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Sturbridge, MA
"Voces gitanas" and Other Projects: Issues of Identity and Self-Representation by April 2013
Spanish Roma”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
Lexington, KY
“Português como língua de herança registros e a prática universitária” April 2013
Conference: A Língua Portuguesa e seus Falantes no Mundo
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Teaching Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Research Findings and Best Practices” March 2013
NeMLA – Northeastern Modern Language Association
Co-presented with Ana Carvalho (The University of Arizona)
Boston, MA
Co-Presenting “La ciudad 'ferpecta': exploring the Spanish cartographic imaginary March 2013
through virtual reality” with Dr. Malcolm Compitello
INTED 2012 (6th International Technology, Education and Development Conference),
in Valencia (Spain) on the 5th, 6th and 7th of March, 2012 (with proceedings)
Co-leading the discussion “Real Places, Virtual Spaces: Cibola as a Hispanic and Feb. 2012
Portuguese Island” with Dr. Malcolm Compitello.
Educause West/Southwest Online Regional Conference, on Feb. 22-24
(http://www.educause.edu/WSWRC122/Program/OL13) March 2012
Workshop: “Cibola, An Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Virtual Community” January 2012
Co-presenter: Dr. Malcolm Compitello
Intercultural Competence and Foreign/Second Language Immersive Environments.
January 26-29, 2012
Tucson, Arizona
“Real Places, Virtual Spaces: Constructing an Hispanic Urban Island in the Second November 2011
Life Virtual Reality Environment”
Co-presenter: Dr. Malcolm Compitello
Midwest Modern Languages Association (M/MLA – 53rd Annual Convention)
St. Louis, Missouri
“Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Erasure & Stigmatization, Gender, and November 2011
Self-Representation of Roma Communities”
2011 Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Symposium
Tucson, Arizona
“Cibola - Real Places, Virtual Places. Cibola as an Hispanic Urban Island in SL” September
Co-presenter: Dr. Malcolm Compitello 2011
5th SLanguages Annual Symposium
Second Life (online)
“La construcción de género en la literatura costumbrista: un análisis de Las November 2010
mujeres españolas, americanas y lusitanas pintadas por sí mismas”
(The construction of gender in the literature of local customs: an analysis of
The Spanish, American, and Portuguese Women as Described by Themselves)
Midwest Modern Languages Association (M/MLA – 52nd Annual Convention)
Chicago, Illinois
“A representação das populações indígenas na mídia brasileira: questões de October 2010
subjetividade, gênero e agência” (The representation of indigenous populations
in Brazilian media: issues on subjectivity, gender, and agency)
XXIX International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Toronto, Canada
“Indigenous Peoples in Brazil: Political Struggle and Contemporary Media February 2010
Representation”
20th Symposium of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture
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Fellowship Assistant for development of online instructional tools. Primary Fall 2010-
investigator: Dr. Malcolm Compitello. Project Title: Second Life Cibola Region Project, Spring 2014
a Cultural Studies research for the creation of a virtual reality project in Second Life
based on historical places of the Portuguese and Spanish speaking world.
Duties: Preparing content, promoting and managing the community with social media,
assisting with the teaching in the virtual reality, advertising it in other educational
venues, presenting the project at conferences.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Research Assistant. Primary investigator: Dr. Ana M. Carvalho. Project title: Language Spring 2011
Variation on the Brazil-Uruguay border. Duties: transcribing sociolinguistic
interviews carried out in both Spanish and Portuguese among other local linguistic
varieties.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Graduate Associate in Teaching. Office of Instructional Computing. Fall 2008 – Fall
Duties: assist graduate students and professors with technology in their teaching, 2010
prepare and teach various workshops about instructional computing, which include
(but not limited to) D2L, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat (Dreamweaver, Photoshop,
Flash, etc), Turnitin.com, Second Life, Drupal.
College of Humanities
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Research Associate for the Portuguese Program. Fall 2007 - Fall
Duties: prepare and adapt instructional materials, create and conduct placement 2009
exams (oral and written) for the incoming students, assist TAs with technology.
The University of Arizona
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Tucson, Arizona
Research Assistant. Principal investigator: Dr. Jaime Fatas. Duties: develop Fall 2007
translation resources for the students using Trados – a computer-assisted
translation software. Compiling law and medical bilingual glossaries and translation
databases to be used in translation courses
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Student Assistant at the Foreign Language Department Co-Teaching Portuguese for Spring 2006
Spanish Speakers. Primary instructor: Dr. Charlene Kalinoski. Duties: Prepare
classes under orientation of Dr. Kalinoski, co-teach and grade materials.
Roanoke College
Salem, Virginia
Student Assistant at the Foreign Language Department. Primary Investigator: Dr. Talbot Fall 2004
Duties: work with translations and research.
Roanoke College
Salem, Virginia
Fellowship Assistant at the English Department for research on Fall 2003
“Writing and Community Service”. Primary Investigator: Prof. Jennifer Rosti.
Duties: elaborate material for first-year freshmen writing course, communicate with
students, and coordinate final project evaluation.
Roanoke College
Salem, Virginia
Content Manager of ESL Resources Webpage for ABA (Brazil-America Association). 2002-2004
Duties: prepare and adapt EFL instructional materials for this online
environment. Work with web designers to implement online activities.
Recife, Brazil <http://www.abaweb.org>
Affiliations
MLA (Modern Language Association), AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese), ACTFL (American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages), LASA (Latin American
Studies Association), SINTRA (Brazilian Translation Society), Braz-TESOL (2001-2002)
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Editorial Group Member and Web Designer for Divergencias: Revista de Estudios Spring 2007 –
Lingüísticos y Literarios Fall 2010
(w3.coh.arizona.edu/divergencias)
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Reviewer for Crisolenguas - Revista electrónica multilingüe del Departamento de 2008
Lenguas Extranjeras
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Graduate Representative for M.A. Students 2007-2008
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Certificates
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Education in Translation
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