1. Curriculum Vitae
Cristiane Busato Smith
1670, W Carla Vista Dr
Chandler AZ 85224
Telephone: (480) 395-3625
E-mail: crisbsmith3@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Literary Studies, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, 2007
M.A. in English Literature, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, 1995
B.A. in English and Portuguese, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná,
Brazil, 1985
EMPLOYMENT
Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade, 2007-2011
Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
M.A. Program in Literary Theory
Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, 1998-2011
Professor of English
Department of Languages and Literature
Universidade Federal do Paraná, 1997-1998
Substitute Professor of English
Department of Modern Languages
École Renault du Brésil, 1998-2000
Teacher of English as a Second Language
Incepa (Indústria Cerâmica do Paraná), 1985-1993
Program Coordinator and Teacher of English as a Second Language
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2013 – 2016
Arizona State University
Adjunct Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012 - present
Global Shakespeares Electronic Archive
Regional Editor

2. PUBLICATIONS
Books
Representations of Ophelia in Victorian England (Representações da Ofélia
de Shakespeare na Inglaterra Vitoriana). CESh Centro de Estudos
Shakespearianos. Belo Horizonte: Editora Tessitura. (in press).
Refereed Journal Articles
(*translated title, paper originally published in Portuguese)
“What ceremony else?””: Images of Ophelia in Brazil: the Politics of
Subversion of the Female Artist.” The Shakespearean International Yearbook
16. (Forthcoming, 2016).
*”Fair and Foul on and Off Stage: an Analysis of Two Productions of Macbeth
in 1992 Turbulent Brazil.” Tradução em Revista 14, (2013): 100-112.
*“Neither Angel nor Devil: a Cultural Analysis of the Appropriation of Ophelia
by The Family Shakespeare.” Revista Letras 77, (2010): 10-28.
"Ophelia and the Perils of the Sacred Feminine. Multicultural Shakespeare:
Translation, Appropriation and Performance 6, (21) / 7(22) (2010): 10-33.
*“Shakespeare’s ‘Space-in-Between’ on Brazilian Television: an Analysis of
the Miniseries Otelo de Oliveira,” Scripta Uniandrade 7, (2010): 215-226.
*“Shakespeare and the Intertext of Female Violence.” Tuiuti 41, (2010): 1-14.
*“Shakespeare: The Man and the Myth.” Eletras 17, (2009):16-28.
*“Shakespeare and Astronomy.” Eletras 18, (2009): 42-58.
*“Hybridism and Mimicry in Jessie Couvrer’s “Monsieur Caloche,” Scripta
Uniandrade 6, (2008): 139-154.
*“’A wounded deer’: Frida the Film and Frida the Life.” Scripta Uniandrade
4, (2006): 1-12.
“Ask no questions’: Ontological instabilities in John Fowles’s The Magus.”
Eletras 9, (2006): 1-15.
“The Quest Theme in John Fowles’s The Magus.” Eletras 2, (2001): 20-39.
“The Real and the Unreal in Stoppard`s The Real Thing.” Fragmenta 9, no. 92

3. (1993): 33-46.
“The Designing and the Implementation of the Simulation - A Trip to Britain.”
Fragmenta 9, n. 92 (1993): 109-112.
Web-Based Publications
“Nós do Morro: Voice, Art and Empowerment,” Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive, January
8, 2013.
http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/blog/2013/01/08/nos-do-morro-voice-art-
and-empowerment/
Book Chapters
(*translated title, originally published in Portuguese)
“’A Pair so Famous’: Reputation and Reception in Antony and Cleopatra. In
Shakespeare: His Life and Works. Rio de Janeiro: Editora UFRJ Rio de
Janeiro, vol. 1. (Forthcoming, 2016)
*”Hamlet.” Preface in Hamlet, o Príncipe da Dinamarca. Sao Paulo: Martin
Claret. (in press).
*”Othello, Our Contemporary.” Preface in Otelo, o Mouro de Veneza. Sao
Paulo: Martin Claret, 2014.
“The Woman, the Beast and the Sacred: Rereading Desdemona, Lavinia and
Ophelia.” In: Global World of Shakespeare: Adaptations, Translations and
Transformations, edited by Abha Singh, 162-172. New Delhi: Prestige Books
International, 2015, vol. 1.
*The Aestheticization of Ophelia’s Death: An Intermediatic Investigation in
Literature and Painting. In Shakespeare sob múltiplos olhares, edited by Anna
Stegh Camati and Célia Arns de Miranda, 163-184. Curitiba: Editora Solar do
Rosário, 2009, vol. 1.
*The Life of William Shakespeare.” In Shakespeare, sua Época e sua Obra,
edited by Marlene Soares dos Santos and Liana Leão, 1-36. Curitiba: Editora
Beatrice, 2008, vol. 1.
Conference Proceedings
(*translated title, paper originally published in Portuguese)
“The Brazilian Accent of Othello.” Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare
Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress,
Prague, 2011. Eds. Martin Procházka, Michael Dobson, Andreas Höfele, and
Hanna Scolnicov. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2014. 296-305.
Print.

4. *“The Dialetics Between Text and Scene in Gertrude’s Monologue.” In V
Reunião Científica da Abrace, Anais da V Reunião Científica da Abrace. São
Paulo, 2009, 9-19.
*“A Brazilian Othello.” In: Congresso Nacional II CONALI de Linguagens em
Interação. Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, 2008, vol. 2, 992-999.
*“A Dialogue Between Theatre and Painting: Ellen Terry and Ophelia.” In: V
Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Pós Graduação em Artes Cênicas, Belo
Horizonte, 2008, 56-62.
“Shakespeare's Heroines in Victorian England.” In: I Congresso Internacional
da Abrapui, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 2007, vol.
1, 164.
*“Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and L’écriture Feminine.” In: Anais do XVI
Seminário do Cellip - CD-ROM Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina,
2005, 356-370.
*“’Thou Map of Woe”: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus.” In: Anais do XVII
Seminário do CELLIP, Unicentro, Guarapuava, 2005, vol. 1, 66.
Book Reviews
(*Translated title, review published in Portuguese)
*“On Growing up and Overcoming Bumps on the Road: Juliet on a Bicycle by
Liana Leão.” Eletras, v. 10, 2005
Manuscripts in Submission:
“Ofélia e a Questão da Autorrepresentação Feminina”, journal article.
Manuscripts in Preparation:
"Brazilian Shakespeares: the Politics of Performance Aesthetics", book
manuscript.
“Dance as a Signifier of Female Subversion in Brian Friel’s Dancing at
Lughnasa”, journal article.
Revision of Translation:
(*from English into Portuguese)
Othello (Otelo, o Mouro de Veneza). Sao Paulo: Martin Claret, 2014.

5. Other Publications:
(*translated title / newspaper articles published in Portuguese)
*“The Scene Imagined: the Reproducibility of Gertrude’s Monologue.”
Suplemento Shakespeare 400 Anos. Suplemento Literário de Minas Gerais
(SMLG), Belo Horizonte, March/April, 2016. (Forthcoming, March 2016).
* “A Romeo-and-Juliet Kindda Love.” Gazeta do Povo, Suplemento Viver
Bem, Curitiba, November v.6, 2005, 11.
* “Reflections Post-Mother’s Day. Gazeta do Povo, Suplemento Viver Bem, v.
27.591, May 15, 2005, 11.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2010 Member of Faculty Honored by the 2010 Summer class. Universidade
Tuiuti do Paraná (2010)
2010 Member of Faculty Honored by the 2010 Winter class. Universidade
Tuiuti do Paraná (2010)
2003 Member of Faculty Honored by the 2003 Summer Class. Universidade
Tuiuti do Paraná (2003)
1998 Member of Faculty Honored by the 1998 Summer Class. Universidade
Tuiuti do Paraná (1998)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Research Grant, Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa e Extensão,
(Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná) 2010-2011
Research Grant, Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa e Extensão,
(Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná) 2008-2010
Research Grant, Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa e Extensão,
(Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná) 2006-2007
Honorary Research Fellow, (University of Leeds, UK), 2005
Reader, The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham, UK), 2004
Research Grant, Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação, Pesquisa e Extensão,
Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná 2003-2005
Master’s Fellowship CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal
de Nível Superior),1996-1998

6. INVITED TALKS
(*translated title, talk originally delivered in Portuguese)
"Wheresoe'er Thou Art in this World's Globe": the MIT Global Shakespeares
Digital Archive.” Shakespeare First! From Page to Stage! (First Folio Teacher
Training). Mesa Public Library, February, 2016.
“Brazilian Shakespeares.” Panel “Dead at 400: Shakespeare, Cervantes and
El Inca Garcilasco”, Twenty-Second Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, February 4-6, 2016.
“Lady Macbeth and Ophelia: Beyond Drowning and Sleep-walking.” Fearless
Females Series. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Changing Hands Bookstore, January, 2015.
“The Politics of Adapting Othello in Otelo da Mangueira.” Videoconference.
Emory University, November 24, 2014.
“Shakespeare and Samba: Rereading Othello in Brazil.” Videoconference talk.
Emory University, May 19, 2014.
“Brazilian Adaptations of Shakespeare.” Videoconference talk. Emory
University, October 31, 2013.
“Lady Macbeth and the Politics of Fair and Foul.” V Abril de Shakespeare
Conference, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, April 22, 2010
* “Titus Andronicus: the Poetics of Pain and Silence.” IV Abril de Shakespeare
Conference, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, April 23, 2008.
*”The Shakespearean text, the Researcher and the Choice” Semana de
Letras, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, March 12, 2008.
*“What’s in a play? Reflections on Romeo and Juliet,” Semana de Letras,
Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, October 22, 2008.
*“Representations of Ophelia: a Case Study.” Graduate Program in Gender
Studies, Universidade Tecnológica do Paraná, Curitiba, June 5, 2008.
*“Ekphrasis: Painting and Poetry, Life and Death.” Graduate Program in
Literature, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, November 7, 2007.
*“Hamlet: a History of Textual Instabilities.” II Abril de Shakespeare
Conference, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, April 26, 2007.

7. *“Nineteenth Century Hamlet Editions.” Abril de Shakespeare Conference,
Graduate Program in Literature, Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade,
Curitiba April 29, 2006.
*“Lavinia as the Sacrificial Victim.” Graduate Program in Literature,
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Abril 3, 2005.
*“Marilyn Monroe: the Construction of a Sexual Icon.” Imagens da Mulher:
Texto Palco e Tela, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, May 7, 2005.
*“Flowers, Sanity and Madness.” 2003 Graduate Program in Literature,
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, May 23, 2003.
“The Educational System in Brazil.” World Languages Program, The
University of South Florida, Tampa, July 30, 1999.
“Teaching English Through Literature.” Semana de Letras, Universidade
Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, September 12, 2001.
*“British Nineteenth Century Culture: Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, a Study of
Provincial Life.” Semana de Letras 2002. Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná,
Curitiba, November 9, 2000.
*“Introduction to the Shakespearean Universe.” Evento de Extensão,
Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, June 3, 2000.
“Metafictional Texts.” Semana de Letras, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná,
Curitiba, October 29, 1999.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized
(*Translated title, panel originally delivered in Portuguese)
“Shakespeare in Brazil: Investments in the Local and the Global,” 12th
International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), King’s
College, 20-23 August 2014, London, UK, 2014.
“Cultural Manifestations in Contemporary Brazil: New Paradigms in Social
Aesthetics,” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Washington, DC, May 29-June 1, 2013.
“Intermedial Transactions: Creative Stage and Screen Adaptations,” The Sixth
Symposium of Irish Studies in South America, Federal University of Paraná,
Curitiba, August 30-31 – September 1, 2010.

8. *“Dilemmas of Postcolonial Literatures: Practices of Reading in the
Globalized World,” I SIELL – Simpósio de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários,
Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, October 14–16, 2010.
*“Alterities in Shakespeare,” 2005 (Cellip) XVII Seminário do Cellip,
Guarapuava, October, 27-29, 2005.
Papers Presented
(*translated title, paper originally presented in Portuguese)
“Ophelia in Contemporary Brazilian Art.” Twenty-Second Annual Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Scottsdale, AZ,
February 4-6, 2016.
“Global Shakespeares and the Study of a Brazilian Adaptation of Othello.”
Twenty-First Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, February 5-7, 2015.
“Shakespeare, Samba, Solace and Escape: An analysis of Otelo da
Mangueira.” 12th International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association
(BRASA), King’s College, 20-23 August 2014, London, UK, 2014.
“Macbeth: Visions of Apocalypse Now and Then.” Twentieth Annual Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Scottsdale, AZ,
February 6-8, 2014.
“Fair and Foul: an analysis of two Macbeth productions in 1992 turbulent
Brazil.” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Washington, DC, May 29-June 1, 2013.
“The Woman, the Beast and the Sacred.” 19th Annual Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Phoenix 14-16 February,
2013.
“Images of Ophelia in Brazil: the Politics of Subversion of the Female body.”
40th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Boston 5-7
April, 2012.
“The Brazilian Accent of Othello.” Ninth World Shakespeare Congress,
Prague, July 17-22, 2011.
“Dance as a Signifier of Female Subversion in Brian Friel’s Dancing at
Lughnasa”. The Fifth Symposium of Irish Studies, Curitiba, August 30-31-
September 1, 2010.
“Multiculturalism in the Modern World: More than a Question of Tolerance.”
2009, Simpósio de Reflexões sobre Metodologias e Práticas de Ensino.
Curitiba, October 29-31, 2009.

9. *“The Dialetics between Text and Stage in Gertrudes’s Monologue.” Sao
Paulo, November 5-6. 2009.
*“The Brazilianation of Othello.” Conali Universidade Estadual de Maringá
October 7-10, 2008.
*“Victorian Shakespeare: A Definitely Dynamic Shakespeare.” Curitiba,
November 1-3, 2008
*“Theatre and Painting in Dialogue: Ellen Terry and Ophelia.” V ABRACE
Congress, Belo Horizonte, October 28-31, 2008.
*“Forms and (Re)Forms: the Appropriation of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth
Century.” Semana Científica Universidade Tuitui do Paraná, May 22-23,
2008.
“Shakespeare's Heroines in Victorian England.” In: I Congresso Internacional
da Abrapui, Belo Horizonte: Faculdade de Letras – Universidade Federal; de
Minas Gerais, 2007.
*“The Place of the Female Body in Fifties Hollywood,” October 25-27, Day,
2007.
*“Ophelia Reloaded.” Semana de Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná,
June 23-24, 2006.
* “Violence and the Sacred in Titus Andronicus.” XVII Seminário do Cellip.
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Guarapuava, October 27-29, 2005.
* “Rereading Ophelia.” Semana de Letras da Uniandrade, Curitiba, October
23, 2005.
*“Diamonds are a man’s best friend”: Sexuality in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
IV Congresso Paranaense de Leitura e I Congresso Nacional de Leituras de
Múltiplas Linguagens. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, May 11-14,
2005.
Ophelia and the Perils of the Sacred Feminine. The Sacred and the Feminine:
Image, Music, Text, Space, CentreCATH at The University of Leeds, Leeds,
UK, 14-16 January, 2005.
“The Ophelia Phenomenon: Iconography and Popular Imagination.” XXXII
Senapulli: Literaturas de Língua Inglesa: Visões e Revisões. Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, April 6-10, 2003.

10. Chair
Panel “Shakespeare and the Catastrophic,” Twentieth Annual ACMRS
Conference, Phoenix, AZ, February 6-8, 2014.
Panel “Alan Gilsenan's The Ghost of Roger Casement,” Fifth Symposium of
Irish Studies in South America, Curitiba, 30, 31 August and 01 September,
2010.
Discussant
Panel “Dead at 400: Shakespeare, Cervantes and El Inca Garcilasco.”
Twenty-Second Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, February 4-6, 2016.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
M.A. Level
Languages of Alterity in Brazilian Fiction (M.A. in Literary Theory, Uniandrade)
Specialization in Language and Literature,
Literature and Cultural Studies (Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná)
Specialization in English
Listening Strategies
Literature in the E.S.L. Classroom: A Communicative Approach
(Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná)
Undergraduate
English Literature I and II
English Drama I and II
American Fiction I and II
Nineteenth Century Fiction in English
Twentieth Century Fiction in English
Advanced English
Graduate Supervision
M.A. Theses Supervised
(completed)
Manoel Messias da Costa. The Influence of Space in Clarice Lispector’s The
Hour of the Star. (M.A. in Literary Theory) - Centro Universitário Campos de
Andrade, 2011.
Maria Isabel Hardt. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands: From the Fiction to The

11. National Park. Dissertação (M.A. in Literary Theory) - Centro Universitário
Campos de Andrade, 2011
Maria Luiza Striffler de Souza Gonçalves. Intertextual Challenges in A Girl
with a Pearl Earring. (M.A. in Literary Theory) - Centro Universitário Campos
de Andrade, 2011.
Juliana Pessi Mayorca. Reflections on Identity in The English Patient: a
Cultural Reading. Dissertação (M.A. in Literary Theory) - Centro Universitário
Campos de Andrade, 2010.
Rodrigo Augusto Kovalski. Problematic Identities In João Gilberto Noll’s Lorde
2009. (M.A. in Literary Theory) - Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade,
2009.
Member of MA Theses Committees
Between 2007 and 2011, served on 11 Masters Thesis Committees
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Leader of Reading Group (The Women of Shakespeare), Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.
Editorial Board: Woolfiana, 2014 – present.
Editorial Board: Scripta Alumni, 2012 – present.
Editorial Board: Revista Interin, 2014 – present.
Journal manuscript reviewer: Journal Acta Scientiarum. Language and
Culture, 2009.
Grant reviewer: Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, 2003.
Manuscript reviewer: Electronic Journal Eletras, 2003-2011
Proposal reviewer: I SIEEL 2010.
Joint Editor of the electronic journal Scripta Alumni 2008-2011
Editorial Board: Scripta 2008-2011.
Editorial Board Eletras 2007-2011.
Conference Organizer: Images of Women: Text, Stage and Screen, Curitiba,
Brazil, 24-26 May, 2005.

12. Organizing Committee: The Fifth Symposium of Irish Studies, UFPR, Curitiba,
30, 31 August and 01 September, 2010.
Organizing Committee: I SIEEL Simpósio de Estudos Linguísticos e
Literários, Curitiba, Brazil, 14-16 October, 2010.
DEPARTAMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Member of Admissions Committee
Member of Research Committee
TEACHING AREAS/COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH
Shakespearean Studies (Global Shakespeares; Shakespeare and the Digital
Archive; The Self-Sacrificial Heroine in Shakespeare’s Works; Female
Characters in Shakespeare; Brazilian Shakespeares).
Brazilian Literature and Culture.
Women’s Studies (Visual and Textual Representations of Women)
LANGUAGES
Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
ISA (International Shakespeare Association)
SAA (Shakespeare Association of America)
LASA (Latin American Studies Association)
BRASA (Brazilian Studies Association)
ABRACE (Associação Brasileira de Artes Cênicas)
CESh (Centro de Estudos Shakespearianos)

13. REFERENCES:
Peter Donaldson, Ford Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Literature Section Building 14N, Office: 14N-431
Cambridge, MA 02139
PBX: 617-253-1447
Email: psdlit@mit.edu
Alexa Huang, Professor of English
George Washington University
801 22nd Street NW
Suite 760
Washington, DC 20052
Phone number: (202) 994-6636
Email: acyhuang@gwu.edu
Anna Stegh Camati, Professor of Theatre Studies
M.A. Program in Literary Theory
Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade
João Scuissiato nº1 - CEP: 80.310-310 Curitiba PR Brazil
Email: anniesc@bol.com.br
CITIZENSHIP
Brazilian
U.S. Naturalized Citizen.