{"id":10689,"date":"2022-09-15T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/?p=10689"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:27:09","slug":"umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Machias, Maine \u2014 University of Maine at Machias Professor <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marcus LiBrizzi has been researching and collecting the ghost stories of Brazil for a decade, traveling across the country from the Amazon Rainforest in 2012 to southeastern Brazil five years later. Now, a University of Maine faculty research grant will allow LiBrizzi to further his work in Brazil and complete what will be his sixth volume of ghost stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LiBrizzi, a professor of English and a Machiasport resident, has a personal and professional connection with Brazil. His husband, Jomar, is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brazilian and they have a house in the city of Vila Vehla in the state of Espirito Santo. For his fieldwork, collecting the country\u2019s ghost stories, LiBrizzi works with an interpreter, professional tour guides and a consultant who is a retired history professor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a visit with family this past February, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LiBrizzi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> taught remotely, and mapped the objectives, procedures and timeline for his research project, which includes a six-week trip in winter 2023 to gather material for six new chapters in the upcoming book. He will travel to the northeast region of Brazil, visiting Bahia, Fernando de Noronha, Maranh\u00e3o and Rio Grande do Norte.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI want to capture personal accounts of the paranormal that reflect Brazil\u2019s diverse heritage, rooted in Indigenous, African and Portuguese cultures,\u201d says LiBrizzi. \u201cBroader dissemination of this content would provide new perspectives on literary tradition and historical struggle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LiBrizzi\u2019s ghost stories often connect to the social and political history of a region. For example, \u201cLost Atusville: A Black Settlement from the American Revolution\u201d recorded and expanded on the role of racial injustice, and how diversity and inequality play in the formation of popular culture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, Brazilian ghost stories are hard to find, LiBrizzi says, and those in circulation <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">can lack supporting details and historical context.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> LiBrizzi\u2019s volume of Brazilian ghost stories will feature narratives from all five of the major regions of Brazil and will help preserve these local pieces of history through personal accounts tied to the culture, history and traditions of the Brazilian people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machias, Maine \u2014 University of Maine at Machias Professor Marcus LiBrizzi has been researching and collecting the ghost stories of Brazil for a decade, traveling across the country from the Amazon Rainforest in 2012 to southeastern Brazil five years later. Now, a University of Maine faculty research grant will allow LiBrizzi to further his work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":10702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"academic-area":[],"umaine-feed":[],"region":[],"class_list":["post-10689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil - UMaine Machias News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil - UMaine Machias News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Machias, Maine \u2014 University of Maine at Machias Professor Marcus LiBrizzi has been researching and collecting the ghost stories of Brazil for a decade, traveling across the country from the Amazon Rainforest in 2012 to southeastern Brazil five years later. Now, a University of Maine faculty research grant will allow LiBrizzi to further his work [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UMaine Machias News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-15T15:52:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-15T16:27:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jacqueline.leonard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"jacqueline.leonard\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"jacqueline.leonard\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5b36bdea7188d2728639c20500266534\"},\"headline\":\"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-15T15:52:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-15T16:27:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\"},\"wordCount\":353,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\",\"name\":\"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil - UMaine Machias News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-15T15:52:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-15T16:27:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5b36bdea7188d2728639c20500266534\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg\",\"width\":960,\"height\":540,\"caption\":\"Background is a black and white photo of the Brazilian forest with water. \\\"Ghost stories of Brazil\\\" is written in white on the bottom left hand corner\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/\",\"name\":\"UMaine Machias News\",\"description\":\"University of Maine at Machias\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5b36bdea7188d2728639c20500266534\",\"name\":\"jacqueline.leonard\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e984eb471abef2c69c16bd826d58346512ac58478b36c20484e4b555371001c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e984eb471abef2c69c16bd826d58346512ac58478b36c20484e4b555371001c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e984eb471abef2c69c16bd826d58346512ac58478b36c20484e4b555371001c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"jacqueline.leonard\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/author\/jacqueline-leonard\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil - UMaine Machias News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil - UMaine Machias News","og_description":"Machias, Maine \u2014 University of Maine at Machias Professor Marcus LiBrizzi has been researching and collecting the ghost stories of Brazil for a decade, traveling across the country from the Amazon Rainforest in 2012 to southeastern Brazil five years later. Now, a University of Maine faculty research grant will allow LiBrizzi to further his work [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/","og_site_name":"UMaine Machias News","article_published_time":"2022-09-15T15:52:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-15T16:27:09+00:00","og_image":[{"width":960,"height":540,"url":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"jacqueline.leonard","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"jacqueline.leonard","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/"},"author":{"name":"jacqueline.leonard","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5b36bdea7188d2728639c20500266534"},"headline":"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil","datePublished":"2022-09-15T15:52:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-15T16:27:09+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/"},"wordCount":353,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/","url":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/","name":"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil - UMaine Machias News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg","datePublished":"2022-09-15T15:52:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-15T16:27:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5b36bdea7188d2728639c20500266534"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg","width":960,"height":540,"caption":"Background is a black and white photo of the Brazilian forest with water. \"Ghost stories of Brazil\" is written in white on the bottom left hand corner"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/15\/umaine-machias-professor-receives-umaine-faculty-research-grant-to-study-in-brazil\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UMaine Machias professor receives UMaine faculty research grant to study in Brazil"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/","name":"UMaine Machias News","description":"University of Maine at Machias","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/5b36bdea7188d2728639c20500266534","name":"jacqueline.leonard","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e984eb471abef2c69c16bd826d58346512ac58478b36c20484e4b555371001c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e984eb471abef2c69c16bd826d58346512ac58478b36c20484e4b555371001c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e984eb471abef2c69c16bd826d58346512ac58478b36c20484e4b555371001c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"jacqueline.leonard"},"url":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/author\/jacqueline-leonard\/"}]}},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":6,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/09\/Ghost-Stories-of-Brazil.jpg",960,540,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"jacqueline.leonard","author_link":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/author\/jacqueline-leonard\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":6,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":403,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":403,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"academic-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic-area?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"umaine-feed","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/umaine-feed?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=10689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}