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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Phillip Rothwell is currently working on a book-length project, provisionally entitled Portuguese Perversions, which analyses how the cultural component of the Portuguese imperial project and its postimperial legacy is often structured through disavowal.
BOOKS
A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007.
A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.
Edited with Hilary Owen, Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature. Bristol: HIPLA Series, 2004.
Edited with Margarida Ribeiro, Teresa Cristina Cerdeira and Juliet Perkins, A Primavera Toda para Ti. Lisbon: Presença, 2004.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
"Between Politics and Truth: Time to Think through the Other in Couto's Pensatempos." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 84.4 (2007): 463-61.
“Teaching Desire: The Aleatory in Ethics and the Aesthetic Experience” in Producing Presences: Branching Out from Gumbrecht’s Work, edited by Victor K. Mendes and João Cezar de Castro Rocha (Dartmouth: Adamastor Books, 2007): 331-38. "Subaltern Rankings and the Death of Community in Buchi Emecheta's In the Ditch." in A Mulher em Africa: Vozes de uma Margem sempre Presente, edited by Inocencia Mata and Laura Cavalcante Padilha (Lisboa: Colibri, 2007): 293-308. “Vodafone Portugal: Postcolonial Ethics in a Mobile Age.” Utrecht Portuguese Studies: Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literatures. Ed. Paulo de Medeiros. (2007): 119-28.
“Inventing a Lusotropical Father, or The Neurotic Legacy in Germano Almeida’s O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno.” Research in African Literatures 38.1 (Spring 2007): 95-105.
“Portugal e Moçambique no Século XX: Língua, Pátria, e Pânico.” Prelo 3 (Winter 2006): 114-27.
“O Poder de uma Mulher: Uma Leitura de Lueji: O Nascimento dum Imperio.” Metamorphoses 7 (2006): 57-64.
“Postcolonial Contemporaneity: An Anglophone Menace Returns to Lusophone Africa in Pepetela’s Jaime Bunda e a Morte do Americano.” Lusophone Studies 4. Ed. Anthony Soares. (2006): 91-110.
“The Authenticity of Smell: Contenting Civilization in the Angola of Ondjaki’s Bom Dia Camaradas.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 83 (2006): 83-90.
“Shit, Shrimps, and Shifting Soubriquets: Iracema and the Lesson in Lost Authority” [Republication by request]. Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism 157 (2006): 55-60.
“Rereading Pepetela’s O Desejo de Kianda after September 11, 2001: Signs and Distractions.” Portuguese Studies 20 (2004): 195-207.
“Placing Women’s Time and in a Colonial Space: Abdulai Sila’s A Última Tragédia.” In Sexual/Textual Empire: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature (2004): 65-82.
“Onions and English Blondes: Or the Profane Defragmentation of A Brasileira de Prazins.” In A Primavera Toda para Ti (2004): 147-50.
“Galeria de Sombras.” In Fantasmas e Fantasias Imperiais no Imaginário Português Contemporâneo. Eds Ana Paula Ferreira and Margarida Ribeiro. Lisbon: Campo das Letras, 2003: 179-86.
“Between the Lines: Elision and Paternity in Helder Macedo’s Partes de África.” Acts of the 23rd Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Eds Alejandro Cortazar and Christian Fernández. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2003: 163-68.
“An Unbecoming Lady of the Camellias: Luiza’s Desire for Recognition in O Primo Bazilio.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 80 (2003): 399-408.
“Momplé’s Melancholia: Mourning for Mozambique.” Portuguese Studies Review 10.1 (2002): 185-193.
"In Search of a Phallus: Jacinto’s True Quest in A Cidade e As Serras.” Portuguese Studies 18 (2002): 64-70.
“Mirroring Imperial Endings: Recognizing the Unknown in Lusophone Texts.” Hispania 85.3 (2002): 486-493.
“The Problem of the Portuguese Pátria: Languagehood’s Dialogic Double-Agency.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies LXXIX (2002): 465-485.
“Unmasking Structures: The Dynamics of Power in Pepetela’s Mayombe.” Luso-Brazilian Review 39.1 (2002): 121-128.
“Entre Metáfora e Metonímia: Outra Leitura de Partes de África.” In A Experiência das Fronteiras. Ed. Teresa Cristina Cerdeira. Niterói: EDUFF, 2002. 105-112.
“The Phylomorphic Linguistic Tradition: Or, The Siege of (the) Portuguese in Mozambique.” Hispanic Research Journal 2.2 (2001): 169-180.
“Shit, Shrimps, and Shifting Soubriquets: Iracema and the Lesson in Lost Authority.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 6 (2001): 285-296.
“A Tale of Two Tensions: Synthesis and Separation in Portuguese National Identity.” Forum for Modern Language Studies XXXVI.3 (2000): 322-330.
“Fuzzy Frontiers: Mozambique: False Borders, Mia Couto: False Margins.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 1 (1998): 55-65.
EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS
Executive Editor of ellipsis: Journal of American Portuguese Studies Association
Guest editor of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 84.4 (2007), with Claudia Pazos Alonso Guest editor of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 10 (Spring 2003) “Reevaluating Mozambique” EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Associate Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Editorial Board of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies Advisory Board of Adamastor Book Series International Advisory Board of O Marrare: Periódico do Setor de Literatura Portuguesa de UERJ
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