César Braga-Pinto
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, U.C. Berkeley.
Associate Professor
Professor César Braga-Pinto specializes in Brazilian and Lusophone African cultures and literatures. He is the author of As Promessas da História: Discursos Proféticos e Assimilação no Brasil Colonial and the editor of Ligeiros Traços: escritos de juventude de José Lins do Rego. He is currently working on two book projects: the first deals with the works of Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego and the intellectual environment of the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920’s and 1930’s, with particular emphasis on Rego’s dialogue with Gilberto Freyre. His second work in progress deals with representations of male friendship and interracial sociability in the fiction and essays written in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in Brazil (roughly from 1888 to the early 1930’s). Portions of both on-going research projects have been accepted for publication: “Ordem e Tradição: A Conversão Regionalista de José Lins do Rego” (Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiro, USP); and “As Amizades Heteróclitas de Nestor Vítor: Cruz e Sousa e Lima Barreto” (Revista Escritos, Casa Rui Barbosa). Professor Braga-Pinto is also working on a multi-volume collection of works by early 20th-century Mozambican writers. He teaches comparative courses on race relations, Latin American intellectual history, friendship studies, Brazilian literature and film, and Lusophone African literatures.
