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Lecture by João Cezar de Castro Rocha: 'Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay: Shakespearean Countries?'
Date
Thu December 3rd 2009, 12:00pm
João Cezar de Castro
Rocha is Professor
of Comparative Transatlantic
Studies at the University of Manchester,
where he has also been
Director of the Institute for Transnational
Studies and Director
of the MA in Latin American Cultural Studies.
Currently he
occupies the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American
Foundation
Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is author of 4 books, including
Literatura e
cordialidade that received the Mário de Andrade Award
from the National
Library of Brazil. He is also the co-author of
Evolution and
Conversion, with René Girard and Pierpaolo
Antonello, which was awarded
the prestigious Prix Aujourd'hui for
2004. He is the editor of more than
20 books, including the
collection of six volumes of Machado de Assis’s
short stories. He
has been the recipient of numerous fellowships,
including the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship at the
University of
Berlin; the Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of
Wisconsin, the "Ministry of Culture Visiting
Fellow" at the University
of Oxford; the
"Overseas Visiting Scholar," at the Cambridge
University;
and the John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship, at the
Yale University,
among others.