Although a native of Washington, DC, Robert Anderson grew up in North Carolina, and returned to settle here after studying and working in Austin, Texas, Washington, DC, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has forty years of post-baccalaureate experience in foreign language education, most of that in Portuguese instruction, and has developed and taught a wide range of courses on Portuguese language and the Lusophone world. Anderson returned to UNC-Chapel Hill in 2015 after ten years at Winston-Salem State University, where he was a tenured associate professor and acting department chair. At WSSU, I established an undergraduate minor in Portuguese and helped create and direct student exchanges with Brazil as well as faculty collaborations. At WSSU, I also developed and taught General Education courses on globalization, experience abroad, and Indian literature. He has published in the areas of Afro-Brazilian studies and Brazilian performing arts, and his current research project deals with the cultural appropriation of Palmares, the seventeenth-century maroon state in Brazil. He has also recently published on Luso-Asian literatures and on teaching Indian literature. His newest project is on Lusophone Language, Culture, and Intellectual History in Goa, India. Anderson is a member representing Goa in working group, “Language and Literature: Race Relations, Sociocultural Diversity, and Interculturality in Portuguese-Speaking Countries” based at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. And finally, he is engaged in literary and nonliterary translation from Portuguese to English, including the critically acclaimed Brazil: A Century of Change (Chapel Hill: UNCP, 2009).