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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sorry to say Anna, but people in Gender
Studies in Brazil might be more open minded than you think they
are. It seems that you only looked for people and courses in the
Linguistic Dept. in Rio, so you should not generalize. Gender has an
interdisciplinary nature ever since the first Centers for Women's Studies were
created in the USA in the 1970's. I myself took profit of it, taking
courses in several different Departments while I was a Graduate
student in Psychology in California during this period. The Conference on
Gender Studies "Fazendo Gęnero/Doing Gender", mentioned by <FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is a good exemple of that.
</FONT>So, I suggest that you search for Gender courses in other
Departments of both UFRJ and PUC-Rio.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Maria Lúcia Rocha-Coutinho.</FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=bserpa@YAHOO.COM href="mailto:bserpa@YAHOO.COM">Anna Serpa</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:13
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GALA-L] MA in Gender and <A
href="mailto:Language?@Carmen">Language?@Carmen</A></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Carmen,</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Iīd be more than glad if you could send me the
names of the professors and research lines at PUC and UFRJ. I was a
student at UFRJ , left the MA in 2006 and I am also aquainted to
Professor Heye at PUC - at present heīs retired - who saw my
work, really liked it, but said the same as all others, concerning the
scope of it. </DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Speaking as a carioca researcher and ex
student, I guess the problem is the way things are organized at
research in Rio Unis - I mean in Languages. It is conservative,
at least in RJ, and by conservative I mean procedures, course
structure and professors in general. For instance, at UFRJ, just as an
example, people who were part of the Sociolinguistic group had
to take Gerativism as a mandatory course and the other way round
simply didnīt happen. Dissertations on something thatīs new are simply
discouraged, they tell students to "leave it for the doctorate" - yes,
in Rio we canīt go for Doc. straight even if the student has
something great in hands. We have to take the MA first, and
dontīmind me saying, waste time on subjects that are simply off of our
work, specially if inedit. I have ex students that are taking the MA
in UERJ, UFRJ, PUC-RJ, UFF, brilliant ones who say that MA is a waste
of time, itīs sometimes even devolping the original work of head
professors, so they do it just to get the title and thatīs
it. They leave to Unis abroad, just like you and many others. Itīs
terrible for Rio and Brazil as a whole. This is the panoram I have
been facing since 2005. But I donīt know about the rest of Brazil. I
know that Rajan has made great changes in Unicamp and that USP is more
open, but for the moment, I canīt leave Rio.</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>I canīt really recall anyone or any line who
could host my studies and believe me, I have searched all over RJ. I
donīt want to leave Brazil or Rio, but if youīd like it, I could send
you an abstract and maybe you could tell me where could it fit in
Santa Catarina. Iīd really appreciate it, I was about to give
up.</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Thanks in advance,</DIV>
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<DIV
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