Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões is Brazilian, naturalized US Citizen. He teaches Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Kansas (KU), with interest in Romance languages. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, at the Portuguese School of Middlebury College, University Federal of Espírito Santo, KU’s Study Abroad in Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, at the Ocean University, in Qingdao, China mainland, and at the US Military Academy at West Point, as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He authored Pois não (University of Texas Press, 2008), co-authored Pronouncing Brazilian Portuguese (LinguaText, 2007), co-authored Portuguese for Spanish Speakers – Selected Articles (Pontes, 2004), authored Com licença! (University of Texas Press, 1992), and articles in his area of expertise. He is currently finishing a new textbook for advanced students of Portuguese planned to be concluded in November of 2017, and writing another book in Phonetics. Professor Simões created the first Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) for Portuguese, as well as other language-related tests. Since 2012, his research interest centers on the analysis of speech prosody, through the use of musical notation.
Contact: asimoes_at_ku_dot_edu (replace _at_ by @, and _dot_ by .)
Last update: May 2012