K. David Jackson is professor of Portuguese at Yale University. He specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian literatures, modernist movements in literature and other arts, Portuguese literature and culture in Asia, poetry, music, and ethnography. His publications include: a photograph album, A Hidden Presence: 500 Years of Portuguese Culture in India and Sri Lanka (Macau, 1995); a study of creole folk verse in Asia, Sing Without Shame (Amsterdam & Macau, 1990; Canta sen Vargonya, Macau, 1996); Builders of the Oceans (Lisbon, EXPO, 1998, also in Portuguese and Spanish); three CDs in the series The Journey of Sounds (Lisbon, 1998); two volumes on the Brazilian and Portuguese avant-garde movments, A Vanguarda Literária no Brasil (Frankfurt, Vervuert, 1998) and As Primeiras Vanguardas em Portugal (Madrid, Iberoamericana, 2003); a CD-ROM, "Luís de Camões and the First Edition of The Lusiads, 1572," and a recent book on the literature of empire, De Chaul a Batticaloa: As Marcas do império maritimo português na Índia e no Sri Lanka (Ericeira, 2005). Professor Jackson recently edited Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet (Oxford, 2005) and the Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (2006). He is author of a new interpretation of Fernando Pessoa in English, the Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (Oxford, 2010).