Research

Professor Sapega specializes in 20th century Portuguese literature and culture. Her publications include articles and book chapters on Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, memory, visual culture and commemoration since the late 19th century, and the contemporary Portuguese novel. She is the author of Ficções Modernistas: Um Estudo da Obra em Prosa de José de Almada Negreiros (Lisboa: Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa) and Consensus and Debate in Salazar’s Portugal: Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text (Forthcoming—Penn State UP). Professor Sapega is currently at work on a project that examines cultural productions of the Cape Verdean diaspora in Europe and the U.S. She is also the co-editor of the Luso-Brazilian Review.