Kevin W.

Ennis
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
Box O, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
+1 401 261 2297 kevin_ennis@brown.edu

EDUCATION
2023 (expected) Ph.D., Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Brown University, Providence, RI

2020 (expected) Graduate Certificate in Collaborative Humanities

Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI
Mellon Graduate Fellow in Collaborative Humanities for the 2019-
2020 academic year

2017 B.A., cum laude, Latin American Studies, with distinction, and
Portuguese, with distinction
Yale University, New Haven, CT

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

2020 (Fall) Graduate Teaching Assistant in POBS 0110: Intensive Portuguese,
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University

2020 (expected) Sheridan Course Design Seminar (Certificate II)

Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

2019– Writing Associate, Brown University Writing Center

2019 Sheridan Teaching Seminar (Certificate I)

Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

2017-2018 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Fulbright Commission Portugal

School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança,
Portugal
Course Instructor and Designer
English Literature III, Fall 2017 (3rd-year seminar)
English-Language Children’s Literature, Spring 2018 (1st-year lecture)
Literature and Cinema, Spring 2018 (2nd-year seminar)

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

2021 “O olhar multifacetado de Gaspar Frutuoso e a geografia físico-humana açoriana
em Saudades da Terra.” 13º Congresso da Associação Internacional de
Lusitanistas. Sapienza–University of Rome, Rome, Italy. 26-30 July 2021.
[Accepted for presentation.]

2020 “Invalidated Memories in Marcia Tiburi’s Sob os pés, meu corpo inteiro.” 12th
International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association.
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 26-28 September 2020. [Accepted for
presentation.]
 2020 “Into the Amazon.” Collaborative Public Workshop. Cogut Institute for the
Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI. 8-9 May 2020. [Workshop
presentation.]

2020 “The Right to the Rainforest and to Cultural Preservation in Davi Kopenawa’s
The Falling Sky.” 51st Northeast Modern Language Association Convention.
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA. 5-8 March 2020.

2019 “Tensions between Ethnographer and Ethnographic Subject in Pedro de Niemeyer

Cesarino’s Rio acima.” SAMLA 91: Languages: Identity, Power, Relationships.
Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, GA. 15-17 November 2019.

2019 “Contemplative Dreams and Actionable Hunger in Glauber Rocha’s Terra em

Transe.” KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference. University
of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 11-13 April 2019.

2018 “Constructions of Identity and Narrative in José Eduardo Agualusa’s O vendedor

de passados.” 11th International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies
Association. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 18-20 October 2018.

2016 “Physical Infrastructures in Manaus.” 10th International Conference of the

American Portuguese Studies Association. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 13-
15 October 2016. [Poster presentation.]

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS

2020 NeMLA Graduate Student Caucus Travel Award for 2020 NeMLA Convention

2019-2020 Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Collaborative Humanities, Cogut Institute for the
Humanities, Brown University

2019 Real Academia Galega scholarship for the XXXII edición dos Cursos de verán de
lingua e cultura galegas in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2017 Albert Bildner Prize for an outstanding essay written in Portuguese on any subject
in Brazilian literature, for Portuguese senior essay

2016 Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences, for senior essay summer research in Manaus, Brazil

2016 Albert Bildner Prize for an outstanding essay written in Portuguese on any subject
in Brazilian literature, for Brazilian Modernist Poetry seminar term paper

DEPARTMENT SERVICE
2020-2021 Graduate Student Representative to Faculty, Department of Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies, Brown University
 2019-2020 Co-Organizer for Primavera Literária, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian
Studies, Brown University

2019- Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, Brown University

2019 Co-Coordinator for Carnaval, Lusophone-Themed Department Outreach Event

for Spring 2019 term, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown
University

2016 Undergraduate Representative, Portuguese Committee, Department of Spanish

and Portuguese, Yale University

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Portuguese Studies Association
Associação Internacional dos Lusitanistas
Brazilian Studies Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association

LANGUAGES
English, native
Portuguese, near-native
Spanish, near-native
Galician, intermediate