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Faculty > Leland Guyer

Professor of Hispanic Studies, specializes in 20th century Portuguese and Brazilian literature. Some of his recent work is in the theory and practice of literary translation. He teaches intensive elementary Portuguese language and offers follow-up courses in Portuguese from intermediate to advanced.

Leland Guyer is Professor of Hispanic Studies and teaches Spanish and Portuguese languages and literary and other expressions of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian cultures. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has taught at Macalester College since 1983. His primary publications reflect his continuing interests and include Imagística do espaço fechado na poesia de Fernando Pessoa (Imprensa Nacional, 1982), Poema sujo / Dirty Poem (Ferreira Gullar, translator Leland Guyer, University Press of America, 1990), The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 (Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, translator Leland Guyer, Hill & Wang, 1999), and Intimate Enemies, No Sin South of the Equator (Joyce Cavalcante, translator Leland Guyer, Writers’ Club Press, 2001). His current translation project is a 40 year retrospective of works by the Brazilian Ferreira Gullar. He has also published a number of articles on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic literatures, several shorter literary translations and more than 30 book reviews. In addition, he has created a hypertext grammar entitled Portuguese Grammar: A Review (Jeffrey Norton, 1994) and has also published, with Carpenter, Ondich, et al., an electronic Spanish-English dictionary, Ultralingua en español: Spanish-English Bilingual Dictionary on CD-ROM (McGraw-Hill, 2002), currently in its 6th major revision. He travels and works on his stick and rudder skills whenever possible.

(Courtesy of the Hispanic Studies page here)

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