José Teixeira Coelho Netto

Undergraduate in Law (Law School, Universidade de Guarulhos, 1971); master in Communication Sciences (Universidade de São Paulo, 1976); ph.D in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (University of São Paulo, 1981). Full professor at the University of São Paulo (retired). Professor emeritus, University of São Paulo, 2015. Formerly, professor of the Architecture School at the University Mackenzie, São Paulo; director of MAC USP/ Contemporary Art Museum, of the University of São Paulo; chief-curator, São Paulo Art Museum/MASP. Expert in Cultural Policy, collaborator to the Unesco Chair in Cultural Policy, University of Girona, Spain. Coordinator of the graduate program in Cultural Management and Policy at the Observatório Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, in cooperation with University of Girona, Spain. from its inception in 2008 until its end in 2020. Has published a number of books on art and culture. As a fiction writer awarded the Portugal Telecom Literary Prize in 2007 for his novel A Natural History of Dictatorship. Currently he coordinates a study group on Computational Culture and Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)