Laura Rivas Gagliardi

Laura Rivas Gagliardi is researcher at the Luso-Brazilian Institute at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her project "New perspectives of postcolonial theory: on history and knowledge in Brazilian literary criticism" is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. She was a visiting lecturer at the graduate program in Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of São Paulo and a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Modern Languages (2020) at the same institution. She holds a PhD in Romanische Literaturwissenschaft (Literary Theory in Neo-Latin Languages) from the Free University of Berlin (2019), an MA in Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft (Applied Literary Theory) (2013) from the same university, and a BA in Letras, Portuguese and French, from the University of São Paulo (2007). She worked in the publishing market (2006-2012), was an intern at Suhrkamp Publishing House (2011) in Berlin and at Instituto Moreira Salles (2012) in São Paulo. She taught German and French as foreign languages (2005-2008) and was a tutor at Colégio Santa Cruz (2009), in São Paulo. She developed research on the love lyric of Carlos Drummond de Andrade with an undergraduate scholarship granted by FAPESP (2002-2006). She was a fellow at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Free University of Berlin) between 2015 and 2019, during her PhD. In 2019, she was at the Institute of Latin American Studies (London School of Advanced Studies) as a visiting researcher to conduct postdoctoral research. She works in the areas of literary theory, Brazilian literature, reception of Brazilian literature in Germany. She is also a translator from German into Portuguese. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)