Anna Klobucka

Anna Klobucka is a Commonwealth Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, with a joint appointment in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. She has held academic roles since 2001, previously at Ohio State University and the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on Modern Portuguese literature, queer history, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on Luso-Brazilian cultural intersections. Klobucka has authored or co-edited over 40 publications, including books like O Mundo Gay de António Botto (2018) and Gender, Empire, and Postcolony (2014). Her work has been recognized with awards such as the 2022 Fulbright Fellowship and the 2019 PEN Club shortlist. She serves as editor of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies and co-editor of Journal of Feminist Scholarship.

Education: PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (1993), BA/MA in Portuguese from the University of Warsaw (1986). Her teaching includes Portuguese literature, Lusophone African studies, and women’s studies courses such as BA Portuguese Studies and PhD Portuguese.

Research highlights include studies on queer modernism, lesbian history in Portugal, and the cultural agency of marginalized figures like Virgínia Quaresma. Her recent work explores intersections between race, gender, and sexuality in early 20th-century Luso-Brazilian contexts.

Key contributions include analyzing Fernando Pessoa's queer activism, tracing the first Portuguese 'coming out' narrative, and recovering overlooked queer texts like Nova Safo (1912). She has also contributed to critical heritage studies, examining colonial and postcolonial Lusophone cultural legacies.