Cristiano Pinheiro de Paula Couto

After finishing his PhD in May 2013, with a dissertation revolving around the effects of political exile and on how Latin American intellectuals were able to construct a transnational cultural field in the late 70s-early 80s, Cristiano Pinheiro de Paula Couto engaged in a postdoctoral research project, which he did at the University of São Paulo from 2013 to 2015, on the more contemporary MERCOSUL agreement, and on its cultural and political repercussions in what was arguably Uruguay's foremost cultural journal, the Cuadernos de Marcha. Researching the numbers of this journal published between 1991 and 1994, he studied the ways in which the MERCOSUL was viewed and analyzed, and how the new geopolitical map of South America that the MERCOSUL inaugurated was considered in a post-Berlin wall world. Recently, supported by CAPES, he developed another postdoctoral research project, which he did at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in 2016 and 2017, exploring the critical discourse on democracy formulated by Raiz & Utopia, which was an influential Portuguese intellectual journal published in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution. He have been pursuing lines of work that span multiple aspects of broader propositions - from fundamental questions about intellectuals and political processes, to the study of a range of issues such as exile, democracy, transitions - resulting in a number of articles published in referred journals such as Intellectual History Review, Tempo, Dimensões, Opsis, etc. His persistent willingness to cross the boundaries of humanities, resisting given divisions of the field, is apparent in his professional path, commited to building bridges with disciplines outside history, such as literary and cultural studies. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6560-7776

Possui licenciatura e bacharelado em História pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Mestre em História Cultural pela UFSC. Doutor em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) com titulação reconhecida pela Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa). Com fundos da Fundação do Patrimônio Cultural Prussiano, foi pesquisador visitante no Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) de Berlim e, com bolsa da CAPES, no College of Arts and Letters da Michigan State University (MSU). Na qualidade de bolsista do CNPq, foi pesquisador de pós-doutorado no Departamento de Letras Modernas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH/USP). Concluiu pesquisa pós-doutoral no exterior, no Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra (UC), tendo a CAPES como instituição de fomento. Integra o grupo "Estudos Literários Interamericanos e Transatlânticos", inscrito no diretório do CNPq. Tem experiência em periodismo político-cultural, história intelectual e crítica cultural. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6560-7776