PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (1996). Full professor in the area of ​​Portuguese Literature at the University of São Paulo (2011). Post-doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2012) and at CRIA-ISCTE (2017-2018). He works mainly in the following major areas: poetics, rhetoric, ancient Portuguese literature, colonial Brazilian literature, prose and poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries, Antonio Vieira.

2020 - Current Declarative reflections on the procedure of the Archbishop of Goa (1725). A writing connecting four parts of the world

Description: Our main objective is to analyze the handwritten document written in Bahia in 1725, entitled Reflections declaratives of the procedure of the Archbishop of Goa, which deals with controversies that occurred in India between the Archbishop of Goa, D. Inácio de Santa Teresa, and the various religious orders active there, especially the Society of Jesus. This analysis highlights the rhetorical structuring of the manuscript (arguments, disposition, elocution) and identifies the linguistic formulations that provide reciprocal understanding of literary configurations between geographically distant Portuguese domains (mutual translation of Indian, African and Brazilian terms). It also discusses the religious polemic genre, locating the condition of the reading public, not anonymous but belonging to the administrative and ecclesiastical strata of the empire, and establishing the authorized institutions of knowledge and writing in which polemic manuscripts could circulate at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century, both in Brazil and in the State of India, namely, academies, colleges and universities.

2022 - Current Epic: mixed genre par excellence

Description: As a member of Research Group 1 of CIMEEP - International and Multidisciplinary Center for Epic Studies - I carry out the aforementioned research that aims to.