Researchers

Elena Brugioni. Assistant Professor at the Department of Literary Theory (DTL/Unicamp). She has published and developed research in the fields of Comparative African Literatures, Indian Ocean Studies, Comparative Literatures and Postcolonial theory. Her current research interests are engaged with alternative critical cartographies and theoretical paradigms for the study of contemporary African literatures and visual narratives in a postcolonial comparative perspective.

Alfredo Cesar Melo. Assistant Professor at the Department of Literary Theory (DTL/Unicamp). Works with varied themes: experimental novel, Brazilian essay, intersections between Brazilian social thought and modern Brazilian literature, politics of memory, postcolonial studies, metaphors of cultural negotiation (anthropophagy, "transculturación"), comparisons between Brazilian and Latin American essay and the cultural and literary relations between Brazil and African countries of Portuguese language.

Mariana Peceguini Ruggieri. Post-doc researcher in Literary Theory and History with the project "Investigations around the poetics of zapatismo" (Fapesp). She was a visiting researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2016) and the University of Michigan (2012).

Fernanda Bianca Gonçalves Gallo. Post-doc researcher in Literary Theory and History with the project "João Paulo Borges Coelho e Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa: dialogue between literature and historical narrative in Mozambique" (Fapesp). Works in the fields of history, anthropology, immaterial cultural patrimony and literature, with emphasis in the African continent and Mozambique, where she developed field work and research between the years of 2012 and 2016, as well as artistic projects such as the video-documentary “Na Rota Da Marrabenta: Música moçambicana em Movimento” (2014).

Marta Banasiak. Post-doc researcher in Literary Theory and History with the project "From the (semi-)periphery one can see the world: African literature in the context of world-literature" (Fapesp). Collaborating member of the Centre for African and Development Studies (CEsA), University of Lisbon. Develops research and publishes in the areas of Portuguese-speaking African Literatures with a focus on Mozambican Literature, Comparative African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and World(-)literary theories.

Rodrigo Octávio Águeda Bandeira Cardoso. PhD candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project "Políticas do primitivismo na América Latina" (Capes). He was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Investigates questions on aesthetics, modernism and vanguard in Brazil and Latin America, indigenism and translation.

Ianes Augusto Cá. PhD Candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project "Violence and historical experience in Guinea-Bissau: the loteray form and social process in Abdulai Sila and Filinto de Barros". Works in the fields of African Literatures, Postcolonial Theory and Comparative Literature, focusing on the areas of Guinean Literature under the perspective of Memory, Identity, Violence and Politics. 

Karen de Andrade. PhD candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project “Tradução comentada de Myth, Literature and the African World de Wole Soyinka” (CNPq). Works on the fields of African Literatures and Translation Studies, with emphasis on Postcolonial Theory, investigating the relation between African and Afrodiasporic dramatic forms and the Yoruba ritual mythology. She has experience on Theatrical Translation. Other areas of interest are: Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Nigerian Literature and Oriental Scenic Traditions.

Bruna Dias Guimarães. PhD candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project “Gilberto Freyre e o cosmopolitismo como ponta de lança” (Capes). Holds a Bachelor and a Masters degree in Economic Sciences.

Gabriela Beduschi Zanfelice. Masters candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project "Environmental crisis, world-literature and the Indian Ocean paradigm in João Paulo Borges Coelho" (Fapesp). Developed part of her Masters research at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (FLUL). Translated the work Combined and uneven development: Towards a new theory of world-literature (WREC, 2015) to Portuguese (WREC, 2020). Her current research interests are within the fields of African Literatures and Comparative Literature, with emphasis on Mozambican Literature, Indian Ocean Studies, World-Literature and Postcolonial Theory.

Floriza Fernandes. Masters candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project “A Diáspora do Crespo: Esse Cabelo e a Literatura Pós-Colonial Portuguesa”. Holds a degree in Languages and Literatures, is a teacher and researcher with interest on African Literature, Diasporic Literatures and Literary Transits made by Postcolonial Literatures worldwide.

Maurício Gabriel dos Santos Nascimento. Masters candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project "Quarto de Despejo & Sala de Visitas: Carolina de Jesus, Intérprete extraordinária do Brasil” (CNPq). Teacher, researcher and militant with interest and experience in the fields of language, literature, education, race, sexuality and gender.

Angelo Gabriel Uehara Ardonde. Masters candidate in Literary Theory and History with the project "Between the radical democrat and the protofascist: Sergio Buarque de Holanda's figure in the critical reception of Raízes do Brasil by Antonio Candido and Jessé Souza" (Fapesp). Within the field of the history of ideas, develops a research about the critical reception of the essay "Raízes do Brasil" by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, focusing on the intellectual project of Antonio Candido and Jessé Souza.

Ana Luíza Vieira Kehdi. Graduanda em Letras. Realizou Iniciação Científica com o projeto “Orientalismo à brasileira: o pós-colonial em Clarice Lispector” (Fapesp), em que investiga, a partir do conto “A menor mulher do mundo”, diferentes configurações pós-coloniais ao redor do globo. Atua nos campos literatura brasileira e literatura comparada, com ênfase na Teoria Pós-colonial, Literatura-Mundial e Estudos brasileiros.

Lais Tardio Depintor. Undergraduate in Languages and Literatures. Developed an Initiation to Scientific Research with the project “Defeated modernization or resistance towards colonialism? Postcolonial analysis of Calunga by Jorge de Lima and Maleita by Lucio Cardoso” (Fapesp).

Laura Armbrust Castanho de Mello Arruda. Undergraduate in Languages and Literatures. Developed an Initiation to Scientific Research with the project “The progressivist pedagogy in the literature of Graciliano Ramos” (Fapesp).

Luís Fernando Moreira da Costa. Undergraduate in Literary Studies. Develops an Initiation to Scientific Research with the project “Viver é muito perigoso: A simbologia do diabo em Grande sertão: Veredas” (SAE). Has interests in the areas of Languages and Literatures, with experience on Brazilian Literature.

Anita Martins Rodrigues de Moraes. Professor of Literary Theory at the Department of Language Sciences at the Fluminense Federal University. Her research interests focus on the question of representation of the other, particularly in the study of the relationship between literature and anthropology. Author of Para além das palavras: representação e realidade em Antonio Candido (Editora da Unesp, 2015) and O inconsciente teórico: investigando estratégias interpretativas de Terra Sonâmbula, de Mia Couto (Editora Annablume/ FAPESP, 2009). Has recently published the anthology O Brasil na poesia africana de língua portuguesa (Editora Kapulana, 2019) with Vima Lia Martin (USP).

Marcos Piason Natali. Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universidade de São Paulo. He has been visiting professor or researcher at UAM (Azcapotzalco-México) and UNAM (Mexico). He published the book "A política da nostalgia: Um estudo das formas do passado" and numerous papers and chapters on Juan Rulfo, Tununa Mercado, José María Arguedas, Mario Bellatin, the concept of fetishism, the debate over Monteiro Lobato´s work, and the notion of sacrifice in Jacques Derrida, along with the chapter on Latin America in "The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature". He works mainly on contemporary Latin American literature, deconstruction, postcolonial theory, and the relationship between literature and ethics.

Paulo de Sousa Aguiar de Medeiros. Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, with a focus on Modern and Contemporary World Literatures. He was Associate Professor at Bryant College (USA) and Professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands) before moving to Warwick. In 2011-2012 he was Keeley Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford and in 2013 and 2014 President of the American Portuguese Studies Association. From 2014 to 2017 he served as Director of Research. Current projects include a study on Postimperial Europe. Research interests include Critical Theory, World Literatures, Modernism and Postcolonial Studies, and Lusophone Literatures and Film. Author of Pessoa’s Geometry of the Abyss: Modernity and the Book of Disquiet (Oxford: Legenda).

Ana Mafalda Leite. Professor of African Literatures at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). Coordinated the project “Narrativas Escritas e Visuais da Nação Pós-colonial” (CESA-FCT: PTDC/CPC-ELT/4939/2012) [2013-2015] and currently coordinates the project “Narrativas do Oceano Índico no Espaço Lusófono” (PTDC/CPCELT/4868/2014). She has published a wide collection of academic and poetic titles. Recently published, as editor, the book Narrating the Postcolonial Nation – Mapping Angola and Mozambique (Eds. Leite, Ana Mafalda / Owen, Hilary / Chaves, Rita / Apa, Livia).

Jessica Falconi. Associate Researcher in the Center of Studies on Africa en Development (CESA) at the University of Lisbon (Portugal). In 2018, she was a visiting professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), where she led the Center of Portuguese Language/Institute Camões. She has participated in several investigation projects and published in national and international journals in the areas of the African literatures and cinemas of Portuguese language, focusing on Mozambican literature. She is also a translator from Portuguese to Italian and has translated several literary works in Portuguese. 

Christian Rodrigues Fischgold. Professor of Comparative Literature (Brazil - Africa) and Literary Theory. Current GCRF Visiting Researcher at the University of Manchester School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures (2020-21 UK), with research on the works by Kuikuros (Xingu) filmmakers. Post-doctorate in Theory and Literary History at the Institute of Language Studies (Unicamp 2019), with research on anthropophagy and neo-animism. PhD in Comparative Literature (UERJ 2018) regarding representations of the Makunaimã and Nambalista.

Marcelo Freddi Lotufo. Was a post-doc researcher in Literary Theory and History with the project "Brazilian literary criticism and world literature: from romanticism to today" (Fapesp). He was a reader of English literature at the University of Burgundy, France, and visiting researcher at the Ibero-American Institute, Berlin. His interests are romanticism, comparative literature, Latin American literature, Brazilian literature, contemporary poetry and translation. 

Felipe Bier. Was a post-doc researcher in Literary Theory and History with the project "The discomfort of tradition: Vidas Secas and the Metamorphoses of the backlands" (Fapesp). Has interest in the following areas: Brazilian literature, literature about the backlands, literary theory, history of the bourgeois novel, literature and Marxism, Brazilian social thought, psychoanalysis.