Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Ph.D Associate Professor and Program Director Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies Graduate Faculty Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Rutgers- New Brunswick American Studies PhD Program, Rutgers-Newark Affiliated Faculty Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark

EDUCATION

PhD, 1999, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
MA, 1992, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
BA, 1988, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
Building Ethnic Communities: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard, co-edited with Andrea Klimt. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Portuguese in the Americas Series (forthcoming 2008)

Performing Folklore: Ranchos Folcloricos from Lisbon to Newark . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Articles
"Lisboa 94-Lisboa Capital Europeia da Cultura." Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX. Ed. Salwa Castelo Branco. Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores e Editoral Notícias (in press).

“Migratory Polemics in Lídia Jorge’s Vale da Paixão.” Para Um Leitor Ignorado: Ensaios Sobre a Ficção de Lídia Jorge. Ed. Ana Paula Ferreira. Lisbon: Dom Quixote (in press)

"Fado Historiography: Old Myths and New Frontiers." P:Portuguese Cultural Studies 0, Eds. Hillary Owen and Paulo de Medeiros, (Winter 2006):1-17

“Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Portuguese Folklore Performance Amid Newark’s Urban Renaissance.” Etnográfica. IX, 1(2005): 81-101.

“Dancing Along the InBetween: Transmigration and Folklore Performance in Portuguese Newark.” Portuguese Studies Review. 11, 2 (2004): 153-82.

"Fazer das Tripas Coração: O Parentesco Cultural nos Ranchos Folclóricos" Vozes do Povo: A Folclorização em Portugal. Eds. Salwa Castelo-Branco and Jorge Freitas Branco. Oeiras, Portugal: Celta Editora, 2003: 142-52.

"Lisboa 94, Capital Europia da Cultura" Vozes do Povo: A Folclorização em Portugal. Eds. Salwa Castelo-Branco and Jorge Freitas Branco. Oeiras: Celta Editora, 2003: 17-1-90.

"Bearing Material Witness to Musical Sound: Fado's L94 Museum Debut." Luso-Brazilian Review. 39, no.2 (2002): 107-123.

"Dressing for Success: Lisbon as European Cultural Capital." Journal of American Folklore 111, no. 438 (1998): 174-96.

"Like Blood in Your Mouth: Topographies of Flamenco Voice and Pedagogy in Diaspora." Text and Performance Quarterly 18, no.4 (1998): 300-18.

TRANSLATIONS (Portuguese to English)

Holton, Kimberly DaCosta. 2001. "Saramago's Construction of Fictional Characters: From Terra do Pecado to Baltasar and Blimunda." By Horácio Costa. On Saramago: Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 6; 33-48

CURRENT PROJECTS

Ethnographer and Project Director (2001-present) of the "Ironbound Oral History Project" in Newark, New Jersey. Conducting research and directing student ethnographic research into Portuguese and Brazilian immigrant communities of Northern New Jersey. The archive, which presently consists of over 100 qualitative interviews, will be housed in the Camões Institute Center for Portuguese Language and Culture in Rutgers-Newark's Dana Library

RESEARCH INTERESTS

TEACHING FIELDS

Portuguese Literature from Medieval period to the present, 20th century Brazilian Literature, Performance and Culture in Portugal and Brazil, Anthropology of Portugal and Brazil, Portuguese Language. (Courses Taught: Elementary Portuguese, Portuguese Literature in English Translation I and II, Oral History of the Ironbound, Post-Revolutionary Portuguese Literature and Culture, Performing the Nation in Portugal and Brazil)