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Nicolau Sevcenko

Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Universidade de São Paulo) (spring term only)

  

Office: Boylston Hall 327

Phone: 617-496-2679.

Email: sevcenk@fas.harvard.edu

Office hours spring 2009: to be announced

Academic Degrees: B.A., Ph.D.: University of São Paulo, Brazil
Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the relationship between society and culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity
Selected Publications:
A corrida para o século XXI: no loop da montanha-russa. 3a. ed. S. Paulo. Cia. das Letras, 2001.
Courses Spring 2008-2009:
  • Portuguese 151 (formerly Portuguese 251). Culture in Turmoil: Brazil in the 50s, 60s and 70s (spring)
  • Portuguese 245. Fixed Minds and Fluid Moods: Aesthetic Configurations in the Tropics (spring)

    Other courses offered:
  • [Portuguese 150. Seminal Sounds, Images and Words in Brazilian Culture]
  • Portuguese 165. The Rise and Fall of Nationalism in Brazil]
  • [Portuguese 171. A Poetic of the Senses: The Brazilian Experience]

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    Last updated on June 10, 2008