MICHAEL COLVIN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and author of Las últimas obras de José Donoso: Juegos, roles y rituales en la subversión del poder (2001); The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History (2008), and Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s (2016).