USA’s Pettway Named A Fulbright Scholar

 University of South Alabama (USA) instructor Matthew Joseph Pettway, an associate professor of Spanish, has been selected as a 2024-2025 Fulbright Scholar. The Fulbright Program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries. Pettway will be one of more than 800 scholars to strive to make an impact globally. Pettway is USA’s first African American scholar to be named a Fulbright Scholar. He will conduct archival research on the philosophical and ethical foundations of Black Brazilian manhood, sexuality and kinship in the 18th and 19th centuries at the Brazilian National Archive and National Library of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. He will also teach a graduate course in the fall semester with Brazilian faculty at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro examining Afro-Brazilian and African-American masculinities in literature and history. He will travel to Brazil in July and teach and conduct his research through December. Pettway, author of Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido and Afro-Latino Religion, will also deliver two lectures on the genesis of Black Cuban literature at the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco on May 15 and 16.