Kevin Ennis

Kevin W. Ennis is finishing his Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He holds an A.M. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown, as well as Doctoral Certificates in Hispanic Studies and Collaborative Humanities, and graduated from Yale (Go Pierson!) with a B.A. in Latin American Studies and Portuguese.

Kevin’s teaching practice centers on building a community of lifelong learners in and out of the classroom. He turns to questions of how literature, art, and other forms of cultural practice help us make sense of the world around us, listening to and learning from diverse voices across the world.

His research interests lie in Amazonian literary and cultural studies, Indigenous literary and artistic practices from Latin America, and cultural responses to coloniality across the Portuguese-speaking world, from Brazil to East Timor. His current research project centers on how extractivist dynamics have shaped imaginaries of Amazonia as a geocultural, literary, and social space in Brazilian and Peruvian texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, especially in Indigenous literatures and arts from the region.

Outside of the university, he is the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Lusophone Studies and the Treasurer of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association.