José Horácio de Almeida Nascimento Costa

University professor and poet with several books of creation and literary criticism published in various languages; his poetry is translated into the Spanish, English, French, Catalan, German, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Macedonian, Romanian and Bulgarian languages. His most recent books of poems were: Ravenalas (2008); Ciclópico Olho (2011); Bernini (2013), Ravenalas y otros poemas (Buenos Aires, 2013), 11/12 - Onze Duodécimos (2014), A hora e vez de Candy Darling (2016), Duas ou três coisas airadas (2018), Satori 30 anos, 2019, São Paulo, March 20, 2020 (2021) and Trip to Mexico 3 (Lisbon, Portugal and Lima, Peru, in Spanish translation, 2022). Received the prize of APCA (Association of Art Critics of São Paulo) in 1990, for organizing the international meeting that generated the book The poetic word in Latin America (1992). Defended original doctoral thesis on José Saramago in 1994 ("José Saramago: The formative period", published in 1997 in Portugal, translated into Spanish in 2003 in Mexico, and re-edited in 2020 in Brazil). In 1993, he received the "Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos" in "Contribución Artística y Extensión de la Cultura", awarded by the National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM, of which he was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters ("Colegio de Letras Hispánicas"). Member of the jury of several international awards, including that of FIL-Guadalajara (2013 and 2014) and president of the jury of the Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry and Essay (2000). He was also president of ABEH - Brazilian Association for Homocultural Studies in the biennium 2006-2008. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (1978), Master of Arts - New York University (1983), Master of Philosophy - Yale University (1986), Master of Arts - Yale University (1986) and PhD in Philosophy (PhD), Yale University (1994).  Has experience in the area of Letters, with emphasis on Portuguese Literature, especially poetry and the study of the poetic canon of the Portuguese and Spanish languages, and comparative studies Portugal, Brazil and Hispanic America. Translated central modern poets such as Octavio Paz, José Gorostiza, César Vallejo and Elisabeth Bishop. He lived twenty years outside of Brazil, establishing residence in several countries such as the USA, Spain, Portugal and Mexico, where he was a full professor at the aforementioned Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM. He returned to Brazil in 2001 to teach as a full-time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Humanities of the University of São Paulo. Since 2020 he is a free-lecturer (Associate) in said 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 professorships "Alfonso Reyes", of El Colegio de Mexico and "José Saramago", of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM. He is a member of the "Centro de Humanidades - CHAM" of the FCSH of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in the project "Cultura, história e pensamento ibéricos e ibero-americanos", and of the "Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa", of the University of Porto, Portugal, in the project "Intersexualidades". Has more than 50 essays in academic journals and coordinated the Portuguese Literature Graduate Course at FFLCH-USP (2018-20). In 2020 he was selected with the CAPES-PRINT/USP scholarship in the "Senior Visitor" category to stay a semester at FFyL-UNAM in 2021, to develop the research "Portuguese books and authors in New Spain and Independent Mexico 1550-1810", which had been object of his post-stayPhD at the same university in 2017. In 2024 received the award "Reconocimiento Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios", given by the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of UNAM, under the concept: "Por su destacada trayectoria en la docencia, la investigación y la difusión de las humanidades".

2011 - Current Portuguese, Brazilian and Hispanic Literature: dialogical horizons (XVI-XXI centuries)

Description: Studies of the interrelations between Portuguese, Brazilian and Hispanic-American literature from the colonial period to the present. The question of the Ibero-American baroque in literature, architecture and arts. Ibero-American capillarity of the baroque and avant-garde binoms and experimentalism and rereading of tradition in Ibero-American poetry. Studies of the poetic canon compared 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 the CHAM-Centro de Humanidades, of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, of which I am an active member since 2015, which receives support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Portugal. From 2021, this project will be transferred to the new research line "Dialogues and Connections: Other arts, knowledge and scenarios"

2012 - Current Homoeroticism and Literary Canon

Description: The Portuguese-language literatures are among the last to recognize a vacant place in their canonical architecture: the absence or registration of the word homoerotic. In Portugal, the episode of? Divinized Sodoma? , starring Pessoa and Raul Leal in the 1920s, put in check this obnubilation that carefully extirpou the attempts of construction of the literary canon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; much earlier than in Brazil, in which it is true to say in our contemporaneity, from the years ? 60 and with the work of Roberto Piva. This research project seeks to clarify, on the one hand, why this shift in relation to central literatures (French, English, American), and even some closer to the Brazilian reality (such as the Mexican); on the other hand, it recovers and analyzes the vigor with which such a record became present in ? file? , that not in the canonical construction, until our days, in Portugal and Brazil, from the Middle Ages, with the shaggy songwriter, through Camões, to Naturalism, when it returns to present itself in the novels Bom Crioulo and O Barão de Lavos, by Adolfo Caminha and Abel Botelho, respectively. To this end, tests will be elaborated concerning both 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 homoerotism in my poetic production, since 1981 (year of my debut book, 28 poems 6 tales), in terms of its scriptural dynamics, as the absence of this analytical vector in the critical reception that it foreshadowed. Linked until 2020 to the Research Line Texts, Contexts, Intertexts of PPG-LP, from 2021 will be transferred to the new Research Line "Gender Studies: Emerging Voices"

2021 - Current Literary Creation (poetry)

Description: Literary creation and creative criticism (corresponding to Line 4 of the Research Lines Graduate Course in Portuguese Literature from 2021) . The project focuses on the individual creation of authorial poetry in connection with students from USP’s Faculty of Letters, many of whom accompany my literary creation and are beginning poets and/or creative writers. I am a poet with the first book published 40 years ago (1981) and continue to produce and teach poetry. Poems of my own have been translated and published in 11 languages (Catalan Spanish, 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 abroad, besides having organized two anthologies of Brazilian poetry (in the United States and Mexico). I was a member of the jury for some of the most important literary awards today. All this expertise in poetic creation, nationally and internationally recognized, is reflected in my performance as a poet in academia, teaching and literature research. In addition to the contact with students-poets, the activities of this novel line of research is exemplified in the course that minister in PPG-LP, "The Modern Poem: Readings and Intersections", which aims to approach the critical writing of creative and has already had an edition (2014) and currently has a second volume to be published in 2021, both composed together with the students of the course