This book is a photographic journey of fifty years of research on Brazil and its folk-popular poetry, the literatura de cordel. The photos taken by the author over these fifty years are divided into three parts: 1. The poets and the printers of cordel 2.The intellectuals, informants and friends associated with the research and 3. The fairs, markets and scenes of folklore related to the research. Each photo, when applicable, is followed by a description of the scene or person. This archive includes many persons and scenes that are no longer present in Brazil thus documenting the reality of...

Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain-A Photographic Journey is another in the series Stories I Told My Students. It follows the pattern of books listed above on Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia. The book tells the tale of travel in Portugal and travel and summer teaching in the Arizona State University summer program in Spain in 1987. The format of the book combines notes from the travel diary, vignettes on the history of the places visited, and in particular notes, on major literary figures like Luis de Camoes or Miguel de Cervantes. Major universities like the University of...

"Aconteceu no Brasil - Cronicas de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil II" e a continuacao de um livro editado uns anos atras: "Peripecias de um Pesquisador 'Gringo' no Brasil no Anos 1960." Continua o namoro e a odisseia do autor no Brasil de 1969 a 1985 (um terceiro volume trara tudo ao presente, isso daqui a uns anos). O volume presente tratara varias estadas no Brasil, o autor ja "Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese" na Arizona State University. Os temas serao a pesquisa da literatura de cordel, congressos e momentos importantes com autores brasileiros, esforcos para...

"It Happened in Brazil: Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil II" is the English version of "Aconteceu no Brasil: Cronica de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano II." The book is a continuation of the first volume in the series published in 2012 in both Portuguese and English: "Adventures of a 'Gringo' Researcher in Brazil in the 1960s." It continues Curran's love affair with Brazil and the Brazilians and work in Brazil from 1969 to 1985; a third volume to be published in coming years will bring everything to the present. This volume deals with various researches and travel trips to...