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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Associate Professor in the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he coordinates Kaliban Research Group on Postcolonial and World Literature (website: https://www2.iel.unicamp.br/kaliban/). From 2008 to 2013, he served as Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago (USA). He earned his undergraduate degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2001) and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (20172018) and was the Joaquim Nabuco Chair in Brazilian Studies at Stanford University (2020), where he taught the course The Conceptual History of Formação. In 2022, he received his Livre-Docência (habilitation) in Brazilian Literature at Unicamp, with a focus on the concept of formação as developed in foundational works of Brazilian social thought and literary criticism. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow. At Unicamp, he directed the Alexandre Eulálio Documentation Center (CEDAE) from 2015 to 2017, chaired the Department of Literary Theory from 2018 to 2021, and served as Faculty Advisor to the Rectors Office, based at the Executive Office of International Relations, from 2021 to 2025. His research focuses on the intersection of Brazilian social thought and literary criticism. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Because the anthropophagic paradigm, the Brazilian intellectuals frequently conceive Brazilian Culture as a transforming force of the European cultural models. Those intellectuals hardly theorize about the insertion of Brazilian culture in other countries, especially those from the South. In this project we describe how the presence of Brazilian culture helped Lusophone African countries …
The project seeks to investigate the overarching concept of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's historiographical and critical writings - that of formation - from 1936, when the author published Raízes do Brasil, through 1958, when he became chair of History of Brazilian Civilization at the University of São Paulo. Sérgio Buarque's understanding of the formation of Brazilian culture springs from …
This project, we intend to show, through the analyses of two 1930s novels (Calunga by Jorge de Lima and Maleita by Lucio Cardoso) that the social critique commonly ascribed to the 1930 social novel needs to be more fully and detailed reassessed, once such critique does not solely present a full-blown denounce of the archaic social structures kept by local elites, but it also contains an a…
The present project intends to study the way Graciliano Ramos, by means of his fiction and other literary texts, interferes in the national debate about education. We will examine the progressivist premises of his idea of pedagogy, in dialogue with the Escola Nova´s ideals of promoting education as an inducer of citizen action, and at the same time, we will study the hierarchisation and s…
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This Research Project is a proposal for an Internship Abroad Research Program (BEPE-IC). It aims to expand and update the knowledge of the theoretical interface between Postcolonial studies and World-Literature. The intersection between these two fields of study has been thoroughly examined by the Warwick Research Collective (WREC), at the Department of English and Comparative Literary St…
This research critically investigates the notions of tradition and formation in Brazilian literature through examining representations of the sertão during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos. We intend to show how a return to Antonio Candido's idea of a formed tradition, coined in the 1950s, questions the period's criticism, as well as points to the m…
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