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César Braga-Pinto

George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. César Braga-Pinto is George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of Brazilian, Lusophone African and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. Professor Braga-Pinto has served as Chair of the Spanish and Portugues Department (Fall 2017- Spring 2022) and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at WCAS (2022-2025). He has previously taught at Rutgers University and was a visiting professor at Columbia University and a Fulbright Scholar the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique). He was 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. He specializes in issues of race, gender and sexuality in Brazil, particularly during the period 1850-1950.


Single authored books:

1. Poses e Posturas: performances de gênero e sexualidade na literature brasileiras (1850-1950) [2023]
2. A Violência das Letras: Amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940). [2018]
3. As Promessas da História: Discursos Proféticos e Assimilação no Brasil Colonial (1500-1700). [2003].


Edited volumes:

1. O Homem que passou por baixo do arco-íris e outras histórias sobre sexualidades, gênero e dissidência entre 1880 e 1950. [2023].
2. Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade na literatura brasileira (1850-1930) Vol. 1: Desejos.  Vol. 2: Performances., with Helder Thiago Maia [2021].
3. Navegar Chicago (fiction and poetry), with Leonardo Tonus [2021].
4. À Procura de Saúde: crônicas de um doente/ In Search of Health: Cronicles of a Sick Man [2016].
5. João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzenguele: literatura e política em Moçambique 1908-1922, withFátima Mendonça [2014].  
6. Ligeiros Traços: escritos de juventude de José Lins do Rego. [2007].


Journal Special Issues:

1. Modernismos. Revista Brasileira de História 42 (90), with Bernardo Buarque de Holanda [2022].
2. Transnational and Counternational Queer Agencies in Lusophone Cultures, with Anna Klobucka. Journal of Lusophone Studies 4 (1), 2019.


Recent scholarly articles and book chapters:

1. “O instinto da mucama e o triunfo do moleque: (mais) uma leitura d’O alienista.” Dossiê: Machado de Assis, a escravidão e a questão racial. Machado Assis Linha n. 17, 2024.
2. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brazil.” Latin American Literature in Transition: 1899-1870. Ed. Ana Peluffo and Ronald Briggs. Cambridge U.P., 2022.
3. "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. Honorable mention in the category Best Article in Humanities, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2018.
4. “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.
5. “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.
6. “A sexualidade de Mário: menos velocidade, mais paciência.” Iberic@: revue d’études ibériques et ibéro-américaines” n. 22, Fall 2022.
7. “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.”