George Monteiro

Background

Monteiro was born on May 23, 1932 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States; the son of Francisco Jose and Augusta (Temudo) Monteiro.

Education

Monteiro received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Brown University in 1964. In 1956, he earned his Master of Arts from Columbia University. Also George was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts in 1993.

Career

Monteiro began his career as an instructor and associate professor at Brown University in 1961. Eleven years years later he took a position of a professor of English at the same university and held it until 1999. He worked as a professor of Portuguese at Brown University from 1984 to 1999. Since 1999 he was an adjunct professor at that university. Nowadays Monteiro is a professor emeritus of English and of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University

Also in 2006 George was a professor at the University of Massachusetts. He held the position of a visiting professor at Providence College in 1967-1968.

Achievements

• Monteiro is known for his books, including "The Presence of Camoes", "The Presence of Pessoa", "Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature" and "Paixões de Pessoa".

Works

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  • Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature (Studies in Romance Languages)

    (Both in his own poetry and the poetry he attributed to hi...)

    2000
  • Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed - Kindle edition by George Monteiro. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

    (The life and career of American poet and writer Elizabeth...)

    2012
  • The Presence of Camões: Influences on the Literature of England, America, and Southern Africa (Studies in Romance Languages)

    (Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Va...)

    1996
  • Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance

    ("A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ...)

    1988
  • 38 School Street: A Memoir - Kindle edition by George Monteiro. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

    (George Monteiro never intended to write a memoir. But as ...)

    2016
  • Henry James and John Hay: the record of a friendship 1965
  • The Presence of Pessoa: English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses (Studies in Romance Languages) 1998
  • Man Who Never Was : Essays on Fernando Pessoa 1982

Connections

On August 14, 1958 George Monteiro married Lois Ann Hodgins, whom he divorced in 1992. They have 3 children. On March 25, 1995 he married Brenda Murphy.

Father:

Francisco José Monteiro

Mother:

Augusta (Temudo) Monteiro

child:

Katherine Monteiro

child:

Stephen Monteiro

child:

Emily Monteiro

First wife:

Lois Ann Hodgins

Second wife:

Brenda Murphy