<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Sorry to send this to the whole list but, like Carmen, I've got surprised and a bit disappointed at Anna's remarks. There is a solid tradition in language and gender studies in Brazilian Universities and this is due to the wonderful job pioneered by Carmen and some other researchers in the 1980's and 1990's. Research in lang. And gender is undertaken in MANY universities and, although there is no specific MA, one can find researchers whose work has focused on gender and its interconnections with lang. At UFRJ, just to correct Anna's mistake, we have Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes, Branca Fabrício, Michela di Candia and myself working on issues of language, gender and sexuality. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Rodrigo Borba</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 17/11/2010, at 19:13, Anna Serpa <<a href="mailto:bserpa@YAHOO.COM">bserpa@YAHOO.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px">
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<div class="plainMail">I´d 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 he´s 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 didn´t happen. Dissertations on something that´s new are simply discouraged, they tell students to "leave it for the doctorate" - yes, in Rio we can´t go for Doc. straight even if the student has something great in hands. We have to take the MA first, and dont´mind 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, it´s sometimes even devolping the original work of head professors, so they do it just to get the title and that´s it. They leave to Unis abroad, just like you and many others. It´s terrible for Rio and Brazil as a whole. This is the panoram I have been facing since 2005. But I don´t 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 can´t leave Rio.</div>
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<div class="plainMail">I can´t really recall anyone or any line who could host my studies and believe me, I have searched all over RJ. I don´t want to leave Brazil or Rio, but if you´d like it, I could send you an abstract and maybe you could tell me where could it fit in Santa Catarina. I´d 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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