Director

Dr. Renato Alvim is an Associate Professor at California State University, Stanislaus and teaches lower, intermediate, and advanced Portuguese Language classes, Portuguese Cultures, and Brazilian Literature. He holds a Ph.D. and a master’s in Portuguese and its Literatures from Indiana University-Bloomington and a second a master’s degree in Secondary Education from Ball State University, Indiana. He teaches lower and intermediate Spanish levels as well. In the US, he has taught at American University-Washington, D.C., Indiana University, Bloomington, and University of Alabama, Birmingham. In Brazil, he has taught at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Faculdade de Letras and at Universidade de Itaúna. His research interests and publications include Portuguese Language & Literatures and Cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Dr. Alvim received a Fulbright Scholarship to obtain his master's degree at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, USA.