Graduado em Letras (Português-Inglês-Espanhol), possui mestrado em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1995), mestrado em Linguística Española - Universidad Autónoma de Asuncion (2014) e doutorado em Teoria da Literatura pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (2002). Atualmente é é professor associado da Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins. Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Literatura Comparada, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: tradução, música caipira, cinema, literatura regional, leitura e produção textual e geografia da religião. Possui, ainda, as seguintes graduações: Pedagogia, História, Filosofia, Geografia e Teatro. É autor de 28 livros.
He is an associate professor, working at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in a Technical Collaboration agreement between this Institution and the Federal University of Tocantins. He teaches "Communication and Expression", "English Language: Writing and Translation Practice", "Translation of English-Portuguese-English Literary and Academic Texts", "Special Topics in Foreign Languages" (English and Spanish) and "Academic Writing Improvement". He coordinates a research on "Literary Translation", directing works in this area and also on "Women and Children's Literature". The research project "Translation of Fictional and Poetic Texts" has been registered. He works in extension courses on Technical and Literary Translation and also on Literature and Women. He has a Master's degree in Brazilian Literature and another one in Spanish Linguistics, with a doctorate on Literary Theory. He was a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin (Ireland) and at the University of Malta. He has worked as a researcher or conducting workshops at the following institutions: University of British Columbia (Canada), Katholieke Universitet Leuven (Belgium), Rezeknes Augstskola (Latvia), Klaipedos Universitetas (Lithuania), Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina), Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (Argentina) and Universidad Americana (Paraguay).
