Henrique Espada

Jonathan Schroeder, Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Warwick and a recent Postdoctoral Associate at Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, discusses his research project “Passages to Freedom: Worlding the North American Slave Narrative.” “Passages to Freedom” examines the language and mobility of 294 African-American slave narratives.

Henrique Espada holds a degree in Psychology (UFSC, 1990), a Masters in Brazilian Literature (UFSC, 1993) and PhD in Social History of Work (Unicamp, 1999). He has been teaching at the History Department of the Federal University of Santa Catarina since 2004, where he teaches in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies (Master’s and Doctorate). His areas of research and teaching include History of History, Methodology and Theory of History, Microhistory, Global History, and Contemporary History and Brazil, with emphasis on studies of social history of work, researching the experiences and trajectories of former slaves between slavery and post-emancipation, as well as housework. He was the National Coordinator of the Worlds of Work WG (ANPUH) between 2007 and 2010 and has been a Research Productivity Fellow (PQ1) of CNPq since 2008.

Jonathan’s Recomended Resources

1. Daphne A. Brooks. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Book on Amazon
2. Kevis Goodman. “Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917,” Victorian Studies 50, no. 1 (2007): 130-133. 
3. Kevis Goodman. “‘Uncertain Disease’: Nostalgia, Pathologies of Motion, Practices of Reading,” Studies in Romanticism, 49, no. 2 (2010): 197-227. 
4. Thomas Nail. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. Book on Amazon​
5. Britt Rusert. Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2017). Book on Amazon

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