Articles and Essays
Articles
“Stories of Day and Night: Narratives of the Nonhuman in João Guimarães Rosa’s Works.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Forthcoming).
“Electroshock and Hydropower: Writing the Great Acceleration in Brazil’s Military Dictatorship.” New Literary History, v. 56, n. 1, 2025, pp. 115-140. Find it here.
- Antonio Candido Article Award, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association (2026)
“Narrativas visuales de la energía hidroeléctrica: Carolina Caycedo en Brasil.” Cuadernos de Literatura del Caribe e Hispanoamérica, n. 40, 2024, pp. 186-210. Revised Spanish translation of “Narrativizing Hydropower: Carolina Caycedo in Brazil.” Find it here.
“World-Ecology in the Web of Latin American Culture,” co-authored with Santiago Acosta, Paige Andersson, Orlando Bentancor, and Brian Whitener. Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, v. 36, n. 1, 2024, pp. 1-10. Find it here.
“Narrativizing Hydropower: Carolina Caycedo in Brazil.” Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, v. 36, n. 1, 2024, pp. 31-47. Find it here.
“O Antropoceno na perspectiva da análise histórica: uma introdução,” co-authored with José Augusto Pádua. Topoi: Revista de História, v. 24, n. 54, 2023, pp. 659-669. Find it here.
“History in a Planetary Age: An Interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty,” co-authored with Dipesh Chakrabarty and José Augusto Pádua.” Topoi: Revista de História, v. 24, n. 54, 2023, pp. 670-684. Find it here.
“Magueyes and Machines: Narratives of Environmental Change in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico.” FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism, v.2, n. 1, 2023, pp. 85-108. Find it here.
“Tortura e eletricidade na ditadura miliar: uma perspectiva ambiental.” Revista Matraga, v. 30, n. 58, 2023, pp. 163-78. Find it here.
“Geographies of Degeographication: Latin America and the Virgin Woods of Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma.” Revista Hispánica Moderna, v. 75, n. 2, 2022, pp. 177-193. Find it here.
“O sertão reconstruído: Mímesis e meio-ambiente em Grande sertão: veredas.” Revista Landa, v.10, n.2, 2022, pp. 272-297. Find it here.
“The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Amazon.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, v. 54, n. 1, 2021. pp. 19-42. Find it here.
- Honorable Mention, Amazonia Section Article Award, Latin American Studies Association (2022)
“Birds, Rivers, Book: Material Mimesis in João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande sertão: veredas.” Luso-Brazilian Review, v. 57, n. 1, 2020. pp. 125-149. Find it here.
“Transatlantic Sertões: the Backlands of Ruy Duarte de Carvalho and Mia Couto.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, v. 8, n. 1, University of Alcalá, Madrid, 2017. pp. 79-97. Find it here.
“The Sailor and the Migrant: Discourses of the Capibaribe River in João Cabral de Melo Neto’s O Rio.” Letterature D’America, Anno XXXVI, n. 160, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, 2016. pp. 41-69. Find it here.
“Sertão Dentro: The Backlands in Early Modern Portuguese Writings.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, v. 27, Dartmouth, MA, 2014. Find it here.
“Whisky: Reading a Film, Watching a Screenplay.” Dancu, Elena; Gibson, Samuel; Guinart, Pau; de Heredia, Mariana; Winterbottom, Tom. Nuevo Texto Crítico. v. 26-27, n. 49-50, 2013/2014. pp. 213-222. Find it here.
“Mortos e presentes: as últimas obras de Machado de Assis e Ingmar Bergman.” Machado de Assis em Linha, v. 7, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 2011. pp. 112-128. Find it here.
“Dínamos emperrados: Paulo Honório e Thomas Buddenbrook.” Inventário, v. 7, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, 2009. pp. 1-15. Find it here.
“Narrador ou proprietário da narrativa: a insônia de Paulo Honório.” Palimpsesto, v. 8, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 2009. pp. 1-23. Find it here.
“O de sempre e o de nunca: gelo e neve em Cien años de soledad, de Gabriel García Márquez, e “The dead”, de James Joyce.” Revista Letras da Universidade Federal do Paraná, v. 78, Curitiba, PR, 2009. pp. 29-46. Find it here.
“Cão que ladra não fala: os animais nos romances machadianos.” Revista de Letras da UNESP, v. 48, São Paulo, SP, 2008. pp. 71-90. Find it here.
Book Chapters
“Magueyes and Machines: Narratives of Environmental Change in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico.” Ecologies of Resistance: Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin American and the Latinx Worlds, edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth Pettinaroli. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (Forthcoming). Find it here.
“Fiction Writing and Environmental Conservation in Latin America: The Cases of João Guimarães Rosa and Alejo Carpentier.” Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World, co-edited by Ken Benson, Azucena Castro, Gisela Heffes, and Gianfranco Selgas. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2026, pp. 111-125. Find it here.
“Reimagining Hydropower: Ecofeminist and Transnational Perspectives on Belo Monte.” The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts, edited by Patricia Vieira. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2025, pp. 258-276. Find it here.
“Substância.” As Primeiras Estórias de Guimarães Rosa. Co-edited by Gustavo de Castro, Clara Rowland, and Leandro Bessa. Brasília: Editora Universidade de Brasília, 2024, pp. 379-400. Find it here.
“Oil.” Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics. Edited by Jens Andermann, Gabriel Giorgi and Victoria Saramago. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 329-41. Find it here.
“Juan Rulfo leído por escritores y críticos latinoamericanos fuera de México.” Juan Rulfo: Guía crítica. Edited by Víctor Jiménez and Jorge Zepeda. México, D.F.: RM. 2018. pp. 183-87. Find it here.
“Testando limites: interdividualidade coletiva nos romances da selva e da seca.” Jobim, José Luís; Méndez-Gallardo, Mariana & Mendoza-Álvarez, Carlos (Eds.) Mímesis e invisibilização social: a interdividualidade coletiva latino-americana. São Paulo: É Realizações, 2016. pp. 123-150. Find it here.
“O sertão ao redor do mundo: escritos portugueses do século XVI.” Vastos sertões: história e natureza na ciência e na literatura. Edited by Sandro Dutra e Silva, Dominichi Miranda de Sá, and Magali Romero Sá. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Mauad X, 2015. pp. 231-246. Portuguese translation of “Sertão Dentro: The Backlands in Early Modern Portuguese Writings.” Find it here.
Preface to Sustentabilidade: O que pode a literatura?. Edited by Pedro Mandagará and Rita Terezinha Schmidt. Santa Cruz do Sul: EDUNISC, 2015. pp. 7-10. Find it here.
“Ecos de piedras y ecos de palabras: los espacios de Pedro Páramo.” Pedro Páramo: 60 años. Edited by Víctor Jiménez. México, D.F.: Fundación Juan Rulfo, RM, 2015. pp. 151- 162. Find it here.
Book Reviews
Carolina Sá Carvalho, Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Forthcoming at Luso-Brazilian Review.
Victor Mendes and Patricia Vieira, eds., Portuguese Literature and the Environment. London: Lexington Books, 2019. Luso-Brazilian Review, v. 57, n. 2, 2020. pp. E8-E10.
Adam J. Shellhorse. Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017. In: Hispanic Review, v. 86, n. 4, 2018. pp. 520-23.
Olavo Amaral. Dicionário de línguas imaginárias. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras/Alfaguara. In: O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, September 25, 2017.
Mário Rodrigues, Receita para de fazer um monstro. Rio de Janeiro: Record: 2016; Franklin Carvalho, Céus e terra. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2016. In: O Globo, Rio de Ja- neiro, RJ, January 7, 2017.
Miguel Sanches Neto, A bíblia do Che. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 2016. In: O Globo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, October 8, 2016.
Cláudia Neiva de Matos, Fernanda Teixeira de Medeiros, and Leonardo Davino de Oliveira (Eds.). Palavra cantada: estudos transdisciplinares. Rio de Janeiro: EdUerj, 2014. In: Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, Berlin, Germany, v. 4, n. 2. 2015. pp. 39-41.
Paulo Moreira. Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico: Deep Undercurrents. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. In: Ellipsis: Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Princeton, NJ, v.12., 2014. pp. 303-305
Victor Heringer. Glória. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2013. In: Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, v. 10, 2014. pp. 209-214
March-September 2010: Literary critic for the supplement “Ideias & Livros.” Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
May – November 2006: Literary critic for the website Texturas: leitores, leituras.
September 2005 – June 2006: Literary critic for Almanaque Virtual.
Public Humanities Publications
“As humanidades ambientais na América Latina,” Dossier organizer and author, Revista Cult, São Paulo, SP, August 2026.
Book Blurbs
Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian (eds.). Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2026. Find it here.
Carolyn Fornoff, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2024. Find it here.