César Braga-Pinto
George F. Appel Professor in the Humanities

- c-braga-pinto@northwestern.edu
- 847-467-6453
- 3-137 Crowe
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.
Single authored books:
- Poses e Posturas: performances de gênero e sexualidade na literature brasileiras (1850-1950) [2023]
- A Violência das Letras: Amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940). [ 2018]
- As Promessas da História: Discursos Proféticos e Assimilação no Brasil Colonial (1500-1700). [2003].
Edited volumes:
- O Homem que passou por baixo do arco-íris e outras histórias sobre sexualidades, gênero e dissidência entre 1880 e 1950. [2023].
- Dissidências de gênero e sexualidade na literatura brasileira (1850-1930) 1: Desejos. Vol. 2: Performances., with Helder Thiago Maia [2021].
- Navegar Chicago (fiction and poetry), with Leonardo Tonus [2021].
- À Procura de Saúde: crônicas de um doente/ In Search of Health: Cronicles of a Sick Man [2016].
- João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzenguele: literatura e política em Moçambique 1908-1922, with Fátima Mendonça [2014].
- Ligeiros Traços: escritos de juventude de José Lins do Rego. [2007].
Journal Special Issues:
- Revista Brasileira de História 42 (90), with Bernardo Buarque de Holanda [2022].
- Transnational and Counternational Queer Agencies in Lusophone Cultures, with Anna Klobucka. Journal of Lusophone Studies 4 (1), 2019.
Recent scholarly articles and book chapters:
- “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 17, 2024.
- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Brazil.” Latin American Literature in Transition: 1899-1870. Ana Peluffo and Ronald Briggs. Cambridge U.P., 2022.
- "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.
- “A sexualidade de Mário de Andrade: a prova dos nove”. Modernismos: 1922-2022. Jorge Schwartz and Gênese Andrade. Companhia das Letras, 2022, pp. 507-545.
- “A sexualidade de Mário de Andrade: ‘ninguém o saberá jamais’. Special issue: “Modernismo: 100 anos”. Ed. Ivan Marques.” Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies 10, 2022.
- “A sexualidade de Mário: menos velocidade, mais paciência.” Iberic@: revue d’études ibériques et ibéro-américaines” 22, Fall 2022.
- “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.”