Ana Claudia Surian da Silva Gruter

I am an Associate Professor in Brazilian Studies, University College London (UCL). I have a BA in Portuguese (UNICAMP, 1995) and MPhil in Literary Theory and History (UNICAMP, 1997). I was an undergraduate student at the University of Geneva for one year (1996) where I started my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Wlad Godzich. After taking a career break when my first son was born, I moved to Oxford and completed an MA in European Literature (2003) and DPhil in Brazilian Literature (2007).I joined UCL in 2014 to help develop the Brazilian Studies programme. Before I taught at the University of Surrey, Birkbeck College, the University of Oxford, and the University of Birmingham. I held visiting professorships and research fellowships at Institut des Textes et Modernes (CNRS), UNICAMP, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and UFSC.My interest in editorial practices, literature, press history, and translation has oriented my teaching, research, and public engagement activities over the years. I work on Brazilian literature, book and press histories, focusing on the works of Machado de Assis, prose fiction, 19th-century press, and fashion history. I have been involved in several collaborative research projects. From 2008 to 2017, I was a member of the CNPq research network Intertextual Relations in the Works of Machado de Assis. As co-investigator for the international research network The Transatlantic Circulation of Printed Matter: the Globalisation of Culture in the 19th Century (FAPESP, 2011-2015), I explored the formation and consolidation of the fashion press as an international journalistic enterprise and the birth of the Brazilian fashion press. I published my findings in, among others, the volumes that I co-edited Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930: A Transatlantic Perspective (2014) and Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: Theatre, the Book-Trade and Reading in the Transatlantic World (2016). As a member of the international research network Translation and Travel in Literary and Cultural Studies (2012-2014), I investigated how Hipólito da Costa adapted the format of the English review to found the periodical Correio Braziliense. My findings were published in the chapter Hipólito da Costa, the Correio Braziliense and the dissemination of the Enlightenment in Brazil, in The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Politics from a Distance (co-authored with Isabel Lustosa, 2017).I organized with Claudia Oliveria the special issue Moda, Mulher e Imprensa no Brasil, dObra[s] (2020). Other special issues in the field of fashion studies that I have edited are Brazilian Fashion for Film Fashion Consumption (2013) and Machado de Assis e a Moda for Machado de Assis em Linha (2017).As part of the CNPq research netofwork The Role of the Periodicals in the Circulation of Ideas in the 19th and 20th Centuries", I am working with a team of students and academics of UNICAMP (Lucia Granja and Alenxandro Paixão) , UNESP (Tania de Lucia and Álvaro Simões) and UFPR (Milena Martins Ribeiro) on the digital edition of the collaboration of Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho, Délia, and Júlia Lopes de Almeida with the Rio de Janeiro press.My publications to date include one monograph, three scholarly editions, four co-edited volumes, thre co-edited special issues, and several journal articles and book chapters. I am the recipient of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry International Award for best essays on Machado de Assis (2006), and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.I am the founder and coordinator of the SELCS Brazilian Translation Club, a series of workshops in which students, translators, and enthusiasts of Brazilian literature meet to discuss the translation of a selected contemporary Brazilian short story.Full profile and publications: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ACSUR41; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-2 (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)