Pedro Schachtt Pereira
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 232
Phone: 773/702-8481
Email: pedrop@uchicago.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Portuguese
Pedro Pereira specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures, with a focus on the relationship between Philosophy and Literature in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. His current research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of friendship in Portuguese and Lusophone literatures and cultures, Portuguese Orientalism, and ghosts in literature.
Education
- PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures, Brown University, 2005
- Licenciatura in Philosophy, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1993
Awards, Honors and Professional Experience
- Luso-American Foundation for Development Research Fellowship, Summer of 2006. Conducted research on the relationship between the Portuguese Geração de 70 and the Spanish Generación del 98 at the National Library in Lisbon, Portugal.
- The Robert Gayle Noyes Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, 2002.
- Brazil Fund-Brown University Research Fellowship, Summer 2000. Conducted research in the Clarice Lispector Archives at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Luso-American Foundation for Development Research Fellowship, Summer of 1998. Conducted research in the Eça de Queirós Archives at the National Library in Lisbon, Portugal.
Selected Courses Taught
Rogue Philosophers: Inventions of Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures.