Teaching Areas:

Undergraduate:

Brazilian Literature, Art, Cinema, and Popular Culture
Spanish American literature and Cinema

Graduate:

Cultural Studies
Brazilian Culture

Training:
B.A. and M.A. Universidade de São Paulo
Ph.D. Indiana University: Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese

Previous positions held:
Stanford University (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies and Program on Urban Studies):Associate Professor with tenure (2005-2006); Assistant Professor (1999-2005).
Universidade Mackenzie (São Paulo): Lecturer, 1999.
Pontifícia Universidade Católica (São Paulo): Lecturer, 1999.

Visiting positions held:
Universidade de São Paulo, Departamentos de Teoria Literária e Letras Vernáculas (August-September 2014); ENAH, Mexico (July 2007);  Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (April- June 2004)
New College, San Francisco, Masters Program on Poetics (May 2003)
Oberlin College, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (November 2001)

Member of Editorial Board:

Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contempornea. Universidade de Brasília.
Revista Nova Travessia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
Revista de Letras da Universidade Federal do Paraná.
UNICEM University Press (Mato Grosso, Brazil), Parambi Series (UNESCO)

Brazilian literature and culture. Indigenous cultures of Brazil. Contemporary indigenous cultural production from Brazil. Racism against indigenous populations. The city in Brazil and Spanish America from 19th-century to the present. Current projects: Racism and anti-racism in Brazil: the case of indigenous peoples' (with Felipe Milanez Pereira, UFBA); and 'Cultures of anti-racism in Latin America (with Peter Wade and Ignacio Aguiló). Author of Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (Routledge 2007); Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).