Bio
David M. Mittelman is Associate Professor of Portuguese in the Department of Foreign Languages at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He teaches courses in Portuguese language as well as Afro-Luso-Brazilian literary and cultural studies.
Education
Ph.D., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2018.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Portuguese, Department of Foreign Languages, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado (2023 to present)
Assistant Professor of Portuguese, Department of Foreign Languages, U.S. Air Force Academy (2019 to 2023)
Lecturer in Portuguese, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of New Hampshire (2018-2019)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University (Spring 2018)
Honors & Awards
Pink Triangle Award, University of New Hampshire, Office of Community, Equity, and Diversity (2019)
Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities, Brown University Graduate School (2018)
Deans’ Faculty Fellowship, Brown University (2017-2018)
Research and Scholarly Interests
Decoloniality and cultural salvage in Brazil and the United States
19th and 20th century Brazilian literature
Contemporary Brazilian cinema
Skepticism in Brazilian literature
Literary and cultural comparison of the Brazilian sertão and the American West
Publications
Recent Publications
“White Horror in Bacurau.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 1, 2023, pp 25-44.
“Embodying Decolonial Salvage in the Sertão of Boi neon and the American West of The Rider.” Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2021, pp. 142-165.
“Machado de Assis and Euclides da Cunha, Interpreters of an Inexplicable Nation.” Brasil / Brazil: Revista de Literatura Brasileira, vol. 33, no. 63, 2020, pp. 139-161.