Hector Brasil-Laurenzo

Area of Expertise

Historical background of Portuguese immigration in southern Brazil and Uruguay (1700-1840)

Research Highlights

• Research on “Picaresque” literature of Spain, 1550 to 1700
• Women in Cervantes’ Don Quixote and the “Negritude”
• Historical development of Colonia del Sacramento, a Portuguese colony in the colonial period of Uruguay

Courses Offered at Redlands

• Don Quixote (Senior Seminary)
• “La Picaresca”
• Hispanic Nobel Prizes
• Spanish Linguistics
• Latin-American Culture and Civ.
• Advance Spanish Grammar
• First and Second Years Spanish
• The cultural and social impact of the Spanish conquest of California natives (Winter Seminar)
• May Terms in Uruguay and Argentina, 2002/ 2003

Degrees Held

• Ph. D. in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, The Ohio State University (1995)
• M.A. in Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara (1987)
• M.A. in Spanish, California State University, Los Angeles (1981)
• B.A. in Latin American Studies and Spanish, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Previous Teaching Experience

• Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (Spanish)
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (Portuguese)
• Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (Spanish)
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (Spanish)
• Columbus State College (Spanish)
• Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Professional Experience

Working as a liaison at the Toledo Program in Spain with the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset (1992)

Honors, Awards and Grants

• Fellow of the Columbus V Centennial Award (1992) at the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain.
• Fellow of the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, of Lisbon, Portugal (1986-87)