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Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil Brazil
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Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Born in Geneva to American parents, I moved to Brazil in 1987, eventually settling there. I worked at first with translation and then interpretation, while continuing to study for my doctorate, with a dissertation on the relevance of postmodern theory to Brazil. Since 1996 I have been a professor in the Brazilian federal university system, first in Bahia (UFBA) and from 2000 in Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). During that time I have done many of the different things that university professors do. I have taught undergraduates and graduate students. I have been head of department and supervised undergraduate, MA and PhD theses. I helped organize a major conference of the Brazilian Comparative ...
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