Degree in Portuguese and English at the University of São Paulo (1975), MA (1984) and PhD (1991) in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo. Full Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo. Experience in English Literature, focusing on Comparative Literature, with research projects on the following subjects: Brazilian novel, English novel, 19th Century, Guimarães Rosa and Literary Relations Britain/Brazil. At present, curator of the Guimarães Rosa Archive at the Institute of Brazilian Studies (University of São Paulo). Author of Puras Misturas (HUCITEC/FAPESP, 1997); Dez Lições sobre o Romance Inglês do Século XVIII (Boitempo, 2002); Formação do Romance Inglês: ensaios teóricos (HUCITEC/FAPESP, 2007 and several articles both in Brazil and abroad. Holds a Research Grant from CNPq (level IA). Coordinator of the Laboratory for the Study of the Novel (LERo) and of research project "Displacements, decenterings: the novel without frontiers" (FAPESP). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Though an important tool in the diverse processes of nation-building and national identity across the globe, since its rise and consolidation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel has never recognized any frontiers. Through transmigration and transculturation, it has challenged what constitutes a polity or nation and what is Internal or foreign to these boundaries. The mos…
Though an important tool in the diverse processes of nation-building and national identity across the globe, since its rise and consolidation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel has never recognized any frontiers. Through transmigration and transculturation, it has challenged what constitutes a polity or nation and what is internal or foreign to these boundaries. The mos…
The project "The transatlantic circulation of printed matter - the globalization of culture in the 19th Century" intends to learn more about the printed matter and the ideas in circulation between England, France, Portugal and Brazil, in "the long 19th Century" (1789-1914). Its main objectives are to identify to and analyze the cultural practices involved in the processes of circulation o…
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Among the debates around the nature of the novel and its paths in the first half of the 20th century, two authors stood out, as they accepted the inherent difficulties of the genre: the Hungarian Georg Lukács and the Russian Mikhail Bakhtin. The former formulated speculative reflections on literary forms and their destinies. Bakhtin, from a similar background (German philosophy) proposed …
This project has as its object of analysis Jean Rhys' fifth novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, which was first published in England in 1966. Its study is motivated not only by the work's singular nature, placing it in a unique position in relation to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), which acted out as its catalyzer, but also by the aim of understanding and revealing the formal impacts arising …
The following research project intends to investigate Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, North and South, and its formal literary shapes constructed by the narrator's 'voice' concerning class relations between characters as expressions of 'experiences of disillusion'. In this sense, this research project aims to analyse the formal mechanisms in which the narrator constructs the loss of an immanen…
This project aims to analyze the travel narratives about Brazil and Chile by the English author Maria Graham and by the Austrian writer Ida Pfeiffer, focusing on how the authors represent Brazil's and Chile's histories and cultures, especially regarding their perceptions about slavery, local women and the colonial relations between these South-American countries and Europe. Their travel a…
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This research project, intended to be carried out at the Sorbonne Université, aims to study the prefaces that accompanied the first French and English translations of the work of Russian author Mikhail Bakhtin, during the seventies and eighties. By doing this study, we want to understand how the categories of author and hero, indispensable for the architecture of his theory of the novel, …
Our aim is to carry out a research project at the University of Toronto, Canada. We intend to explain the relationship between the configuration of the epics ascribed to Ossian -- Fingal and Temora -- with the eighteenth-century novel.Keywords: Ossian; epic; novel; Eighteenth century. (AU)
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