David Treece is Camoens Professor of Portuguese, King’s College London. His research interests include Brazilian Culture and Literature; Brazilian popular music; Afro-Brazilian culture and politics; anti-racism in Brazil; Translation from Portuguese, including song translation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Treece received his BA in Hispanic Studies (1982) and his PhD in Brazilian literature (1987) from the University of Liverpool. Between 1984 and 1987 he worked for the human rights NGO Survival International, campaigning in defence of Brazil\u2019s indigenous communities. After a year lecturing at the University of Glasgow, in 1987 he joined the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King\u2019s, serving as its Head of Department from 2002 to 2005. He was appointed Professor of Brazilian Studies in 2004 and Camoens Professor of Portuguese in 2005.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1996 he created the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, now incorporated into the King\u2019s Brazil Institute. He is a former co-editor of\u00a0Portuguese Studies\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.\u00a0<\/em>In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian Government for services to Brazil-UK relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2000 Treece\u2019s research activities have concentrated on Brazilian popular music, especially from bossa nova onwards, and the culture and politics of race and Afro-Brazilian identity. From 2003 to 2007 he directed a collaborative AHRC-funded project which produced the volume \u201cCultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic\u201d (Palgrave\/Macmillan, 2007), co-edited by Nancy Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca, and David Treece.\u00a0In 2013 he published \u201cBrazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap\u201d (Reaktion), which brought together those interests in popular music and race.\u00a0Besides pursuing practice-based research on Brazilian song translation, Professor Treece is currently developing work on \u201cMusic and anti-racism in contemporary Brazil\u201d with the support of a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Music scenes, spaces and migrations in the Lusophone world<\/em>\u00a0(ed.) (Anthem Press, forthcoming)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap\u00a0<\/em>(London: Reaktion Books, 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gathering of Voices: the twentieth-century Poetry of Latin America<\/em>, co-authored with Mike Gonzalez (Verso, 1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Language-in-song, language-as-song : new perspectives from Brazil on song translation theory and practice.\u00a0\/\u00a0Treece, David Helier.In:\u00a0Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies\u00a0, Vol. Volume 3 (Digital Online Version), 16.05.2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bringing Brazil\u2019s resistance songs to London: words and music in translation.\u00a0\/\u00a0Treece, David.In:\u00a0Veredas: Revista da Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Internacional de Lusitanistas\u00a0, Vol. 27, 5, 30.08.2018, p. 68-84.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Collaborator with singer-songwriter M\u00f4nica Vasconcelos on the project \u2018The S\u00e3o Paulo Tapes: Brazilian Resistance Songs\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-organiser of Minas \u2013 Heart of Brazil festivals at King\u2019s College London.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n David Treece is Camoens Professor of Portuguese, King’s College London. His research interests include Brazilian Culture and Literature; Brazilian popular music; Afro-Brazilian culture and politics; anti-racism in Brazil; Translation from Portuguese, including song translation. Prof. Treece received his BA in Hispanic Studies (1982) and his PhD in Brazilian literature (1987) from the University of Liverpool. … <\/p>\n
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