Regina Castro-McGowan, received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York. She is currently Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, and coordinator for the Minor in Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures in the Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures of the City College of New York. Dr. Castro McGowan´s teaching and research focus on Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature, historiography, film and cultural studies. Her latest works include the recent peer reviewed articles "South Atlantic Encounters: The Lusotropical Modernism of Ernesto Lara Filho´s Crônicas" (Portuguese Cultural Studies, 2026), "´Whose Place of Speech?´ Brazil´s Afro- and Queer-Centric YouTube Channels and the Decentralization of TV Globo´s Telenovela Discourse" (Social Sciences, 2025), "Protest Music, K-7 Tapes and a Hideout Place in Copacabana: Music in Brazil and Portugal During the Dictatorship" (Anppom, 2024), the book chapter "Black, Then White, Then Black Again: Brazil´s Racial Politics and the Changing Face of Machado de Assis" (SUNY Press, 2024), and the bilingual critical edition of previously unpublished poems by Portuguese poet Nita Lupi (Underline, 2022). 

Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY
M.Phil., The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
B.A., City College, The City University of New York

Portuguese language, and the cultural studies, film and literature of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world.

Vem Falar Português: Portuguese for All. CUNY Pressbooks, May 2026. (Peer reviewed).

“South Atlantic Encounters: The Lusotropical Modernism of Ernesto Lara Filho's Crônicas.” In Portuguese Cultural Studies. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Vol. 9, January 2026. (Peer reviewed)

“Diálogo e polifonia em Fernando Pessoa.” In Antologia Words from Overseas, V. 2. Ed. Nereide Santa Rosa. Florida: Underline Publishing, Fall 2025.

“’Whose Place of Speech?’ Brazil’s Afro- and Queer-Centric YouTube Channels and the Decentralization of TV Globo’s Telenovela Discourse.” Racial Injustice, Violence and Resistance: New Approaches Under Multidimensional Perspectives. Ed. Paixão, Marcelo, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, and Thomas McNulty. Social Sciences, MDPI, vol.14, July 2025. (Peer reviewed).

"Protest Music, K-7 Tapes and a Hideout Place in Copacabana." In Music in Brazil and Portugal During the Dictatorship. Brazil: Revista OPUS. Anppom, vol. 30, December 2024. (Peer reviewed). 

“Black, Then White, Then Black Again: Brazil’s Racial Politics and the Changing Face of Machado de Assis.” In Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas. Ed. V. Valdes and E. Fitz. New York: SUNY Press. August 2024. (Peer reviewed)

Presence of Life, Poems: A Critical Bilingual Edition of Nita Lupi’s Previously Unpublished Poems. Florida: Underline Publishing, 2021.

“A Longa Grama Molhada.” Trans. of Séamus Scanlon’s “The Tall Wet Grass.” In Afterburn.  Dublin: Arlen House, 2019.

“Terra Papagalli: A Historical Novel Deconstructing Brazil’s Official History of Discovery.” Ometeca Journal. Florida: Ometeca Institute, 2016. (Peer reviewed)

“João Baptista Lavanha ‘Cronista Mor do Reyno’ e a Historiografia Sebástica do Século XVII.” Representações do Mito na História e na Literatura. Portugal: University of Évora, 2014.

“Língua Portuguesa ou Língua Brasileira? O Discurso Literário Nacionalista e a Política Linguística Estatal.” In Ao Redor do Mundo, Vol. 2. New York: Atlântico Books, 2013.