Rodrigo Lopes de Barros is a scholar, filmmaker, and writer. He has a BA in Law and an MA in Literary Theory from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, the latter with a fellowship from CNPQ (the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). He received a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from The University of Texas at Austin with work in the fields of Cuban and Brazilian cultures. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo with a fellowship from FAPESP and was invited to visiting positions at Harvard University and the Federal University of Esp\u00edrito Santo. His writing interests include the relationship between ethnography and literature, the avant-garde cinema and contemporary art in Cuba and Brazil, and the relationship between the arts and national histories.<\/p>\n
Lopes de Barros directed the documentary\u00a0<\/span>Chacal: Forbidden to Write Poetry<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Chacal: Proibido Fazer Poesia)<\/em>, for which he received the Award of Merit in Film from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). He also directed the hybrid\u00a0<\/span>Literary M\u00e9nage: An Investigation into the Writing of Jacques Fux (M\u00e9nage Liter\u00e1rio: Uma Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o sobre a Escrita de Jacques Fux<\/em>) and the fiction short film\u00a0<\/span>The Body (O Corpo)<\/em>.<\/p>\n Lopes de Barros\u2019 essays on Brazilian and Cuban cultures have appeared as chapters of books and journal articles in places like\u00a0Comparative Literature Studies<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Alea: Estudos Neolatinos<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Outra Travessia<\/em><\/a>. He co-edited the book\u00a0<\/span>Ruinologias: Ensaios Sobre Destro\u00e7os do Presente<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and his\u00a0short stories\u00a0have been published in literary magazines. As a literary writer, he was among the winners of \u201cCultural Contest \u2018Caderno 2\u2019 in the 450 Years of S\u00e3o Paulo\u201d by the newspaper\u00a0<\/span>O Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>. As a press editor, he co-organized the publication of contemporary intellectuals into Portuguese through\u00a0Editora Cultura e Barb\u00e1rie<\/a>, which he co-founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20109,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20348,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20346\/revisions\/20348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}