Pedro Schacht Pereira is a native of Porto, Portugal. He holds a Licenciatura in Philosophy from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (1993) and a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University (2005). He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago before joining OSU in 2008. In the Spring of 2024 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University. Prof. Pereira specializes in Portuguese Literature with a focus in Diasporic African Literatures and in Nineteenth-, Twentieth- and Twenty-first century Portuguese literature and culture, and colonialism and postcolonialism in Portuguese literature.

 

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Latest Publications

Books

• 2014 Filósofos de Trazer por Casa: Cenários da Apropriação da Filosofia em Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis. São Paulo: Annablume.
• 2013 Filósofos de Trazer por Casa: Cenários da Apropriação da Filosofia em Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis. University of Coimbra Press [Coimbra, Portugal].

Articles

• 2016 “Eça de Queirós e o sublime africano.” Queirosiana 25. Forthcoming, December.
• 2013 b. “An East, east of the East’: Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa’s Álvaro de Campos and the Scope of Portuguese Orientalism.” Ellipsis11. 2013. 13-41
• 2012 “Uma ideia de Garrett: O douto livro das Viagens na Minha Terra.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 21-22. 259-268

Book Chapters

• a. “Remembering Africa.” Africa in Portuguese, the Portuguese in Africa. Reappraisals. Volume co-edited with Isabel Ferreira Gould. (Under submission to University of Minesotta Press)
• b. “Hegel, Humane Colonialism, and the Genealogies of Portuguese Exceptionalism.” Forthcoming in Transatlantic Studies Reader: Latin America, Iberia and Africa. Under submission to Duke University Press.
• c. “Portuguese and the Emergence of Iberian Studies.” Forthcoming in Beyond Tordesillas. Critical Essays in Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies. Robert P. Newcomb and Richard Gordon, eds. The Ohio State University Press. Spring 2017. 4-23