Paulo Moreira

Associate Professor, Portuguese

paulo.moreira@ou.edu
(405) 325-6181
Kaufman Hall 218

Paulo Moreira has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He taught at Yale for nine years and joined the University of Oklahoma as an associate professor and head of the Portuguese Program in 2016.

Dr. Moreira has published more than twenty articles on Brazilian, Mexican, U.S., and Latin American literature, cinema, and culture. He has published two books, Localismo Modernista: Faulkner, Guimarães Rosa e Rulfo (Editora UFMG, 2012) and Literary and Cultural Relations Between Brazil and Mexico: Deep Undercurrents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He is currently working on a book on imagination and identity and tentatively called Journey into Latin American Imagination.

At OU, Paulo Moreira teaches intermediate Portuguese, Brazilian culture, Cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world, and contemporary Brazilian and Latin American cinema.

Education

Ph.D in Comparative literature. University of California at Santa Barbara. 2007
M.A in Comparative literature. University of California at Santa Barbara. 2002
B.A. in Letters. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. 2000.

Publications

“A cidade nos contos de Machado de Assis.” Em Tese. 27:1 (Jan.-Abr. 2021). 161-181. ISSN: 1982-0739.
“Compulsive Memory: The Endurance of 1969 in Brazilian Contemporary Cinema.” Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema 16:2 (2019): 233-250. ISSN 2050-4845
“When America First Became Latin” in Jobim, José Luis (ed.) Literary and Cultural Circulation. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 159-184. ISBN 978-1-78707-324-1
Literary and Cultural Relations Between Brazil and Mexico: Deep Undercurrents. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 272 pages. ISBN 978-11-3737-986-3
Modernismo Localista das Américas: Os contos de Faulkner, Guimarães Rosa e Rulfo. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2012. 344 pages. ISBN 978-85-7041-925-5