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César Braga-Pinto

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature

PhD U.C. Berkeley

César Braga-Pinto is George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of Brazilian, Lusophone African and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of A Violência das Letras: Amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940) (EdUERJ, 2018) and As Promessas da História: Discursos Proféticos e Assimilação no Brasil Colonial (2003). He also co-edited with Fatima Mendonça a collection of early 20th-century Mozambican journalism writings entitled João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzenguele: literatura e política em Moçambique 1908-1922 (2014). 

Professor Braga-Pinto currently serves as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at WCAS. He has previously taught at Rutgers University and was a visiting professor at Columbia University and at the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) as a Fulbright Scholar. He was also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Brazil Institute at King's College in London (2013) and a post-doctoral fellow at University of São Paulo (2006-2007). In 2005 he participated in the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute on African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal. 

Recent publications include

  1. O Homem que passou por baixo do arco-íris e outras histórias: Antologia da diversidade sexual e de gênero em contos brasileiros de 1880 a 1950. Pittsburg: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Forthcoming 2023.
  2. Special issue on Modernismos. Revista Brasileira de História 42 (90), 2022.
  3. Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade na literatura brasileira (1850-1930)
    Vol. 1: Desejos.
    Vol. 2: Performances.
    Index ebook: Lisbon, 2021. Print: Devires: Salvador, 2021.
  4. Navegar Chicago (fiction) Co-org. with Leonardo Tonus. Ed. Nós. 2021.
  5. Special issue on Transnational and Counternational Queer Agencies in Lusophone Cultures. Co-edited with Anna Klobucka.  Journal of Lusophone Studies 4 (1), 2019.
  6. “What’s all the fuzz about? Masculinities, Women and the Paraguayan War in Joaquim Manuel de Macedo’s fiction.” Drag King. Ed. Javier Guerrero and Nathalie Bouzaglo. Metales Pesados. Santiago, Chile, 2023.
  7. “Mulheres de bigode: masculinidades, gênero e a guerra da tríplice aliança na ficção de Joaquim Manuel de Macedo”. Revista Via Atlântica, 1 (42).
  8. “A sexualidade de Mário de Andrade: a prova dos nove”. Modernismos: 1922-2022. Ed. Jorge Schwartz and Gênese Andrade. Companhia das Letras, 2022, pp. 507-545.
  9. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brazil.” Latin American Literature in Transition: 1899-1870. Ed. Ana Peluffo and Ronald Briggs. Cambridge U.P., 2022.
  10. “Recifessexualizando José Lins: um roteiro para Moleque Ricardo.” As cidades de Zé Lins - um passeio crítico pela geografia sentimental do autor paraibano. CEPE: Recife, 2022, pp. 95-147.
  11. “Literatura e suicídio.” Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade: percepções da crítica literária brasileira. Ed. Helder Thiago Maia and Samuel Lima da Silva. Ed. Devires, 2021, pp. 213-236.
  12. "From Abolitionism to Black Face: The Vicissitudes of Uncle Tom in Brazil." Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book. Ed. Tracy Davis and Stefka Mihaylova. U. of Michigan P., 2018, pp. 225-257. Honorable mention in the category Best Article in Humanities, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2018.
  13. “A sexualidade de Mário de Andrade: ‘ninguém o saberá jamais’. Special issue: “Modernismo: 100 anos”. Ed. Ivan Marques.” Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies v. 10, 2022.
  14. “Uma efeméride ‘boa pra pensar’? Do cinquentenário aos cem anos da Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922”.Co-authored with Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda. Revista Brasileira de História. São Paulo, 42 (90), 2022, pp. 1-26.
  15. “O imaginário intersexual de Coelho Neto”. Revista Novos Estudos, CEBRAP, v. 122, May, 2022.
  16. “El sapo homosexual de Nestor Vitor.” Taller de Letras 66, 2020, pp. 159-165.
  17. “Between Christmas Day (1895) and New Year’s Eve (1922): Queer Suicide and the Brazilian Long Fin-de-siècle.” Journal of Lusophone Studies 4(1), 2019, pp. 87-109.
  18. “Eccentrics, Extravagants, and Deviants in the Brazilian Belle Epoque; or, how João do Rio emulated Oscar Wilde.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies28.3, 2019, pp. 353-376.
  19. “The Pleasures of Imitation: Gabriel Tarde, Oscar Wilde and João do Rio in Brazil’s Long Fin de siècle.”Comparative Literature Studies 56 (1), 2019, pp. 153-189.
  20.  “Sexualidades extra-vagantes: João do Rio, emulador de Oscar Wilde.” Revista da Abralic – Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, no. 35, Dec. 2018,” pp. 88-100. Republicado como “A Europa e o corpo extravagante de João do Rio” (2022).
  21. “De Pureza (1937) a Pureza (1940): José Lins do Rego e o Cinema de Chianca de Garcia.” Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros 70, Aug. 2018. 249-269.”
  22. “Time and Alterity in Padre Antônio Vieira’s History of the Future”. Portuguese Studies Review 15 (1-2). Fall 2007 (published 2009), pp. 227-66. [peer-reviewed]. Translation of chapter four of As Promessas da História (#2 above). Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, v. 263. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research Inc, 2017. pp. 274-293.
  23. "Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre y el amor del hombre blanco por los negros."  Trans. Félix Ceballos. Cuadernos de Literatura Departamento de Literatura 21 (42), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 2017. pp. 79-95  [Spanish translation of #14 above].
  24. "The Honor of the Abolitionist and the Shamefulness of Slavery: Raul Pompeia, Luís Gama and Joaquim Nabuco." Luso-Brazilian Review 51(2), Dec. 2014. pp.170-99. [peer-reviewed]
  25. "Journalists, Capoeiras and Duels in Nineteen-Century Rio de Janeiro." Hispanic American Historical Review94 (4), Nov. 2014. pp. 581-614. [peer-reviewed]
  26. "Othello's Pathologies: reading Caminha with Lombroso." Comparative Literature 66 (1). Spring, 2014. 149-171. [peer-reviewed]
  27. À Procura de Saúde: crônicas de um doente/ In Search of Health: Cronicles of a Sick Man Bilingual. Ed. César Braga-Pinto. English translation: Clelia Donovan. Maputo: Alcance Editores, 2016.
  28. João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzenguele: literatura e política em Moçambique 1908-1922. Ed. César Braga Pinto and Fátima Mendonça. Lisbon and Maputo: Alcance Editores, 2014.