Position
Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese

Role
Director of Portuguese Language Program

Office Phone
609-258-4519

Email
ncooney@princeton.edu

Office
341 East Pyne

Degrees
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, Harvard University
B.A. in Afro-Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and French, King's College, University of London, Associate of King's College


Bio/Description
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Profile

Nicola Trowbridge Cooney earned a joint B.A. in Afro-Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and French from King's College University of London and is an Associate of King's College. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Harvard University.
She directs the Portuguese language program as well as Princeton’s summer program in Lisbon, Portugal and is a Faculty Fellow and Adviser at Butler College. She teaches courses on the cultures and literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Her research interests include second-language acquisition, poetry, Luso-African literature and film and identity politics in the Luso-Afro-Asian-Brazilian sphere.