The First Class: Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad

What does a professor - Brazillian or otherwise - think and do on the first class, standing before a group of 'foreign' students to talk about Brazillian Liteture?
This aparrently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this books opens a series of others questions: Who is this professor? How did he or she go about planning that first class? What challenges do professor faces when teaching the literature of a country different from that of their students, and in a language wich is, in most case, likewise unfamiliar to them?