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This discussion-based course focuses on a wide range of texts from the colonial period to the present. We’ll read seminal texts from Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa, paying close attention to language and context. How do forms, ideas, and genres travel across the Atlantic? What shape do they take according to different geographies, cultures, and histories? Topics include the legacies of European colonialism and imperialism, slavery and its aftermath, theoretical debates about the formation of Brazilian Literature, national identity, (post)colonialism and decolonization, representations of nature, and Indigeneity. Students will read innovative prose works by Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector; the poetry of Fernando Pessoa; Brazilian concrete poetry, and modernist manifestos; among other things. This course will be taught in English. Students may complete coursework in Portuguese or Spanish to apply the course toward relevant Spanish, Portuguese, or RLL degree requirements.