Instructor: Bruno Carvalho

Bruno Carvalho
Bruno Carvalho's research and teaching interests range from the early modern period to the present, and include literature, culture, and the built environment, with focus on Brazil. He has published widely on topics related to poetry, film, architecture, cartography, city planning, environmental justice, race and racism. A Rio de Janeiro native, Carvalho received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (2009) and taught at Princeton University between 2009-2018. His Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro (2013) won the Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award in 2014. Currently, he is working on Partial Enlightenments: Race, Cities, and Nature in the Luso-Brazilian Eighteenth Century, and Imagined Futures: Urban Visions Revisited, on how different designers, writers and artists imagined urban futures.

To learn more about Professor Carvalho, read this recent interview.

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