Journal of Romance Studies: "Psychoanalysis and Portuguese Studies" 

Journal of Romance Studies promotes innovative critical work in the areas of linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, media, material culture, intellectual and cultural history, critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, social sciences, and anthropology. The primary focus is on those parts of the world that speak, or have spoken, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, but work on other cultures may be included. Issues cross national and disciplinary boundaries in order to stimulate new ways of thinking about cultural history and practice.

Prof. dr. Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of Portuguese Studies and Coordinator of the Research Master Comparative Literary Studies. His teaching and research focus on contemporary Lusophone literatures and on issues of literary theory, with special incidence on comparative literature and postcolonialism. Medeiros chairs the Department of Portuguese and is director of the Portuguese Studies Center. He is also editor of the electronic journal P: Portuguese Cultural Studies.