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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Marcelo Pen is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Science, University of São Paulo. He ha published in Portuguese a book length study of Henry James and Machado de Assis: Realidade possível: dilemas da ficção em Henry James e Machado de Assis (Ateliê Editorial, 2012, 360 pp). He has also translated Jamess fiction and theory into Portuguese: Os embaixadores (The Ambassadors; Cosac Naify, 2010, 608 pp); Um peregrino apaixonado e outras histórias (A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Stories; Planeta, 2005, 232 pp); and A arte do romance (The Art of the Novel; Globo, 2003, 320 pp). He was Visiting Professor at Université Paris 8 - Vincennes/Saint-Denis (2011) and undertook his postdoctoral research as Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and Research Assistant at Harvard (2016). In 2023, he was Visiting Scholar at Penn State University. His main research interests are: the 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-American and Brazilian novel, realism, modernism, Henry James, and Machado de Assis. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The project "Theory of the Novel: Ethics, Alterity, and Politics in the New Enfranchised Nations", organized by the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Studies, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Sao Paulo, seeks to encourage discussion on the theory of the novel, both with social and formalistic approaches, seen from Brazilian and Amer…
This project proposes an analysis of the fiction of the American writer Carson McCullers. Our aim is to investigate the literary transfiguration of isolation, its formal resonances in the author's work, and how this narrative principle relates to the context of its production, the Southern United States in the first half of the 20th century. Our hypotheses seek to demonstrate how two elem…
What are the relations between the Cold War, the so-called boom of the Latin-American literature, and the work of Machado de Assis? This research aims to investigate not only processes of literary production, circulation, and emancipation, but also the dynamics of the global market and the strategies of geopolitical domination in the American hemisphere, so that we may understand how the …
Based in a perusal of the Novel Theory, with an emphasis on the studies that in the American scene received direct or indirect influence of Henry James's fiction and critical thought, this project aims, firstly, at examining the ethical and political dimensions of the characterological creation, especially, but not always, related to the Doppelganger presence, and, secondly, at exploring …
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