Reinaldo Silva
Born in Portugal in 1961, REINALDO SILVA immigrated to America in 1967 at age 6, settling in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated in both the United States and Portugal and holds dual citizenship. After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Coimbra in 1985, he earned an M.A. in English and American literature at Rutgers University-Newark in 1982 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1998. He has lectured at Rutgers, NYU, NJIT and Seton Hall, and is currently Assistant Professor...See more
Born in Portugal in 1961, REINALDO SILVA immigrated to America in 1967 at age 6, settling in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated in both the United States and Portugal and holds dual citizenship. After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Coimbra in 1985, he earned an M.A. in English and American literature at Rutgers University-Newark in 1982 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1998. He has lectured at Rutgers, NYU, NJIT and Seton Hall, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His teaching and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and contemporary ethnic literatures, with a special focus on Portuguese-American writers. He has published numerous articles and encyclopedia entries in American journals. See less
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