Benjamin Chaffin

A man wearing a grey had and a black button down shirt. A city skyline in the background

Lecturer

616 Sproul
Office Hours
Fall 24: Tues & Thurs 2-3:30

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Courses Taught

  • Fast Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Intermediate Portuguese I & II, Advanced Portuguese I, Portuguese for the Professions, Spanish Elements I (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Portuguese 1, 3, 4, & 5, Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (16B); Spanish 2 & 3 (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Intermediate Portuguese (201), Elementary Spanish (101-102) (University of Hawaiʻi)

Selected Publications

  • “Igarapé Fantasmagórico: Um diálogo entre a poesia de Mário de Andrade e Leaves of Grass, de Walt Whitman.” Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, n. 46, agosto 2022, pp. 79-97.
  • “O progresso como disrupção social em O alienista de Machado de Assis e ‘A nova Califórnia’ de Lima Barreto.” Revista Leitura, n. 68, abr 2021, pp. 391-405.
  • “The Unsivilized Figure as Cultural Hero of Artifice: Suassuna’s João Grilo and Twain’s Huck Finn.” Texto Poético, v. 17, n. 32, 2021, pp. 248-269.
Education and Degree(s)
  • PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 2022