Prof. Pereira was born in Porto, Portugal. He holds a licenciatura in Philosophy (1993) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (2005) from Brown University. He has been at Ohio State since 2008. While his teaching covers most areas related to the literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world, his research centers on 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures, with a focus on the African diasporas in Portugal, the representation of Blackness in modern Portuguese literature by white authors and the rise of Black authorship in the modern period. His first book, Filósofos de trazer por casa. Cenários da apropriação da Filosofia em Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis was published in 2013 by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal and Annablume, Brazil, and he is currently working on a second book entitled Black Subjectivities in Portuguese Literature, 1840s to 2020s. His articles have been published in academic journals in the US, Brazil, Portugal, and the UK.

Tutoring and Translating Services:

• Portuguese Advanced Translating 
   

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