José Horácio de Almeida Nascimento Costa
University professor and poet with several books on creation and literary criticism published in several languages; His poetry has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Catalan, German, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Macedonian, Romanian and Bulgarian. His most recent books of poems were: Ravenalas (2008); Cyclopic Eye (2011); Bernini (2013), Ravenalas and other poems (Buenos Aires, 2013), 11/12 - Eleven Duodécimos (2014), The hour and time of Candy Darling (2016), Two or three airy things (2018) and Satori ? 30 years, 2019. Received the award from APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics), in 1990, for organizing the international meeting that generated the book A Palavra Poética na América Latina (1992). He defended his original doctoral thesis on José Saramago in 1994 ("José Saramago: The formative period", published in 1997 in Portugal, in Spanish translation, in 2003 in Mexico, and in a re-edition in 2020, in Brazil). In 1993, he received the "Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos" in "Aportación Artística y Extensión de la Cultura", granted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM, where he was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters ("Colegio de Letras Hispánicas"). He was a member of the jury for several international awards, including the FIL-Guadalajara award (2013 and 2014) and president of the jury for the Octavio Paz Poetry and Essay Award (2000). He was also president of ABEH - Brazilian Association of Homoculture Studies in the 2006-2008 biennium. He holds a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of São Paulo (1978), a master's degree in Arts - New York University (1983), a master's degree in Philosophy - Yale University (1986), a master's degree in Arts - Yale University (1986) and a doctorate in Philosophy (PhD), Yale University (1994). He has experience in the area of Literature, with an emphasis on Portuguese Literature, especially in poetry and the study of the poetic canon of the Portuguese and Spanish languages, and in comparative studies of Portugal, Brazil and Hispanic America. He translated central modern poets, such as Octavio Paz, José Gorostiza, César Vallejo and Elisabeth Bishop. He lived outside Brazil for twenty years, taking up residence in several countries such as the USA, Spain, Portugal and Mexico, where he was a professor at the aforementioned Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM. He returned to Brazil in 2001 to teach as a full-time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo. Since 2020 he has been a full professor (Associate) at FFLCH-USP. His book Bernini was the winner of the 56th edition of the Jabuti Prize in the poetry category, in 2014. He held the chairs "Alfonso Reyes", at El Colegio de México and "José Saramago", at the Facultad de Filosofía e Letras at UNAM. He is a member of the "Center for Humanities - CHAM" at FCSH at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in the project "Iberian and Ibero-American culture, history and thought", and of the "Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa", at the University of Porto, Portugal, in the project "Intersexualities". He has more than 50 essays in academic journals and coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Portuguese Literature at FFLCH-USP (2018-20). In 2020, he was selected with the CAPES-PRINT/USP scholarship in the "Senior Visitor" category to stay for a semester at FFyL-UNAM in 2021, to develop the research "Portuguese books and authors in New Spain and Independent Mexico 1550-1810", which was the subject of his post-doctoral stay at that same university in 2017.
2021 Current Portuguese and Brazilian Literature and Hispanic America: dialogic horizons (16th-21st centuries) II
Description:Studies of the interrelations between Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish-American literature, from the colonial period to the present. The question of the Ibero-American baroque in literature, architecture and the arts. Ibero-American capillarity of the binomials baroque and avant-garde and experimentalism and reinterpretations of tradition in Ibero-American poetry. Studies of the comparative poetic canon in Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish-American poetry. Baroque arts, biases and records and works by contemporary Portuguese authors (e.g. Ana Hatherly and José Saramago). This research is carried out in collaboration with CHAM-Centro de Humanidades, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, of which I have been an active member since 2015, which receives support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Portugal.
2021 - Current Homoeroticism and Literary Canon III
Description: Portuguese-language literatures are among the last to recognize a vacant place in their canonical architecture: the absence and registration of the homoerotic word. In Portugal, the episode of “Divinized Sodom”, led by Pessoa and Raul Leal in the 1920s, called into question this obfuscation that carefully eradicated the attempts to build the literary canon in the 19th and 20th centuries; much earlier than in Brazil, where this is true in our contemporary times, from the 60s onwards and with the work of Roberto Piva. This research project seeks to clarify, on the one hand, why this divergence in relation to so-called central literatures (French, English, American), and even some that are closer to Brazilian reality (such as Mexican); on the other, it recovers and analyzes the vigor with which such a record was present in the ?archive?, other than in the canonical construction, until today, in Portugal and Brazil, from the Middle Ages, with the mocking songbook, through Camões, until Naturalism, when it appears again in the novels Bom Crioulo and O Barão de Lavos, by Adolfo Caminha and Abel Botelho, respectively. To this end, tests will be prepared concerning both of these vectors. Finally, part of this hermeneutic effort is the production of a series of self-interpretative essays, with which I update the topics analyzed in these essays, in order to evaluate both the thematic importance of homoeroticism in my poetic production, since 1981 (the year of my debut book, 28 poems 6 short stories), in terms of its scriptural dynamics, and the absence of this analytical vector in the critical reception that it augured.
2021 - Current Literary creation (poetry)
Description: Literary creation and creative criticism (Corresponding to Line 4 of the Research Lines of the Postgraduate Program in Portuguese Literature from 2021 onwards). The project focuses on the individual creation of authorial poetry in connection with students from the Faculty of Arts at USP, many of whom follow my literary creation and are beginning poets and/or creative writers. I am a poet with my first book published 40 years ago (1981) and I continue to produce and teach poetry. Poems written by me have been translated and published in 11 languages (Spanish Catalan, Italian, French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian), in several countries (Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Spain, Dominican Republic, United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, France, England, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania) and I have 12 books of poetry published in Brazil and 8 in abroad, in addition to having organized two anthologies of Brazilian poetry (in the United States and Mexico). I was a member of the jury for some of today's most important literary awards. All this expertise in poetic creation, recognized nationally and internationally, is reflected in my performance as a poet in the academy, in teaching and in research on literature. In addition to contact with student-poets, the activities of this new line of research are exemplified in the course I teach at PPG-LP, "O Poema Moderno: Leituras e Interseções", which aims to bring critical writing closer to creative writing and has already had one edition (2014) and, currently, has a second volume to be published in 2021, both composed together with the students of the course.