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Associated Professor I in the Faculty of Arts of UFRJ. Graduation in Portuguese-German (1986)and masters in German Literature (1992) at UFRJ and doctoral in German language and literature at USP (1999). Pos-doctoral inership in Viena from 2009 to 2010. Translator. He has experience in discourse analysis focusing on German language and culture by a historical view. He works with the following themes: European travel narratives about Brazil in the XVI and XVII centuries; German Literature from XVII to Romanticism; Herder, Humboldt and philosophy of history; Georg Lukács and Marxism; Brazil history of the XIX century.

 

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Projects of Research
I “ Discoursive construction of Rio de Janeiro in European travelers and imigrants narratives between 1700 -1900″ [baixar]

II “ Construction of a democratic and alternative pratice of teaching of foreign language in public high school” [baixar]

 

Advisor working

Graduation

Clara Lopes Sampaio

Roberto d’Assumpção Junior

 

Master students

Fernanda Silva Dias

Jéssica Uhlig Amorim Vasconcelos de Araújo

Manuela Niquet Gonçalves

Vítor Vieira Ferreira

 

Doctoral students

Bianca Dorothéa Batista

Madalena Quaresma Lima

Rafael Chaves Santos

 

Texts Related to the Project

1. O Lado negro do discurso. Estereótipos racistas em relatos de viajantes alemães sobre a escravidão no Brasil na primeira metade do século XIX [The dark side of discourse. Racist stereotypes in Germany travel narratives about the slavery in Brazil in the beginning of XIX century]

2. O Brasil para os europeus. Três narrativas de viajantes germânicos no Rio de Janeiro entre os séculos XVIII e XIX [Brazil by Europeans.Three Germany travel narratives about Rio de Janeiro between XVIII and XIX century]

3. Frey Apollonio, de Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Or the Brazilian romance is , in fact, an meta historical for Brazilians ’

4. Análise de construções discursivas do Rio de Janeiro em relatos de viajantes no século XIX. Uma abordagem interdisciplinar[Analysis of discoursive constrution of Rio de JAneiro in travel narratives of the XIX century. An interdisciplinary method]

5. Foucault e o Realismo Crítico. Impasses e perspectivas na construção de uma Lingüística Aplicada Crítica [Foucault and critical realism. Perspectives in the constructions of a Critical Applied Linguistics]

6. Goethe leu Eurípedes. E nós, leremos Goethe? ou: Ifigênia em Táuride na contemporaneidade[Goethe read Eurípedes. What about us? Will we read Goethe?or Infigênia em Taúride in the comtemporaneity]

7. Sob a ética do olhar, do tempo e da escrita. Goethe e a história [By the ethic, time and writing view. Goethe and history]

8. Johann Natterer e a situação singular de seu legado textual: propostas para uma análise crítica e ideológica de seus discursos acerca do homem brasileiro

9. Uma austríaca visita o Rio de Janeiro de 1847. Exame do Relato de Ida Pfeiffer sob uma ótica transcultural