He has a degree in Linguistics and Literature from the State University of Campinas (1983, 1985), a master's degree in Theory and Literary History from the same university (1993), a doctorate in Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literatures from the University of São Paulo (1999), having completed post-doctoral internships at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2005), at the College of Humanities at the Ohio State University (2009) and at the University of Leeds (2016). He is currently a full professor at the University of São Paulo, working especially in the areas of Portuguese literature, comparative studies of Portuguese-language literature and history of literature. It focuses on two research groups: one focused on the work of Eça de Queirós; another focused on Portuguese-language literature from Goa and other former Portuguese colonies in Asia. Alongside Giuliano Lelis Ito Santos, he coordinates the Eça Group, registered with the CNPq. He also coordinates the Thematic project Thinking Goa: A Peculiar Portuguese Language Library (FAPESP - Proc. 2014/15657-8). He is the author of the book Romantismo Paulista (2006), organizer of the volume Oriente, Engenho e Arte (2004), co-organizer of Portuguese Literature: History, Memory and Perspectives (2007), of three special issues of the magazine Via Atlântica (2011, 2016 and 2019) on literature and culture in Goa, among other works.
2021 - Current Press and literary circulation in Portuguese
Description: This project promotes the study of literary circulation in the Portuguese-speaking space, focusing on the relations between this space and the former Portuguese colony of Goa and paying attention to the role that Portuguese Literature played in this dynamic, both in the colonial period and in the post-independence period. The project also privileges literary and cultural production disseminated by the press, a medium that greatly boosted the circulation of literature, whether through specialist magazines or through literary sections or notebooks within the so-called "major press". It is, therefore, a question of trying to map and understand the place and role that literature occupied in Goan periodicals, and eventually in other Portuguese-speaking spaces, and to what extent Portuguese Literature functioned as a reference for the cultivation, there, of written production of an artistic nature. The reverse movement will also be the object of research, that is, how much writers from the colonies and, later, former colonies had a place on the stage of Portuguese literature.
2021 - Current Eça de Queirós: a chronological reading of his work - part 3
Description: The aim of this project is to continue previous projects of the same name, which aimed to carry out a chronological reading of the works of Eça de Queirós. In this third stage, we intend to work on the end-of-century works of Eça de Queirós, starting with "Correspondência de Fradique Mendes", passing through "Cidade e as serras" and arriving at "A illustrious house of Ramires". This project is linked to the Eça Group, registered with CNPq.