Nicolau Sevcenko

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Office: Boylston Hall 327
Phone: (617) 496-2679
Fax: (617) 496-4682
Email: sevcenk@fas.harvard.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 5:00-7:00

Academic Degrees: B.A., Ph.D.: University of São Paulo, Brazil

Research 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.

Courses 2009-2010:
Portuguese 166. Literature, History and Subjectivity: from Machado de Assis to Clarice Lispector - (New Course) [fall term]
Portuguese 172. Culture and Popular Culture: clashes of times, territories, languages and imaginations - (New Course) [spring term]
Portuguese 250. Marginal, Underground and Eccentric: an aesthetics of subversion - (New Course) [fall term]

Other Courses Offered:
[Portuguese 150. Seminal Sounds, Images and Words in Brazilian Culture]
[Portuguese 151 (formerly Portuguese 251). Culture in Turmoil: Brazil in the 50s, 60s and 70s]
[Portuguese 171. A Poetic of the Senses: The Brazilian Experience]
[Portuguese 165. The Rise and Fall of Nationalism in Brazil]
[Portuguese 245. Fixed Minds and Fluid Moods: Aesthetic Configurations in the Tropics]

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Last updated on September 28, 2009