Permanent Lecturers


image-20201103075321-19 Adrián Pablo Fanjul
Adrián Fanjul holds a degree in Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado (Argentina, 1991), a Master's degree in Language Sciences (1998) from the same institution, a PhD in Linguistics from UNESP-Araraquara (2002), and a postdoctoral degree in Spanish from USP (2017) with a thesis on discourse analysis related to urban music of popular tradition. He did a postdoctoral internship in 2006 at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), with a scholarship from FAPESP. He has a level 2 productivity scholarship from CNPq. Currently, and since 2002, he is a full-time professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Modern Literature. He develops research analyzing comparatively discursive series in Spanish and Portuguese in South America, as well as comparing the referencing processes in the functioning of these two languages. He is the author and editor of several books in the field, and has published articles in scientific journals and books from Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Cuba, Spain and the United States. He coordinates international cooperation initiatives for postgraduate studies and has taught courses in several master's and doctoral programs in Argentina since 2005, and in Cape Verde since 2003. He is a reviewer for several government agencies that promote research and for several journals in the field. He was president of the Brazilian Association of Hispanists from 2010 to 2012. He was a member of the coordination team of the VII Brazilian Congress of Hispanists (2012) and chaired the Organizing Committee of the I International Congress of Teachers of Official Languages ​​of Mercosur (2010). He was a representative of professors with doctorates on the University Council of USP between 2011 and 2013.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: adrianpf@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5800662065713164


image-20201103075328-20 Adriana Kanzepolsky
Adriana Kanzepolsky holds a degree in High School and Higher Education Teaching in Literature from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (1986) and a PhD in Literature (Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature) from the University of São Paulo (2001), and a Post-Doctorate in Literary Theory from the University of Campinas (2004). She is currently a professor at the University of São Paulo. She has experience in the area of ​​Literature, with an emphasis on Modern Foreign Literature, working mainly on the following themes: memoirs, autobiography, autofiction in poetry and contemporary Hispanic-American narrative.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: adrianakanze@gmail.com
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0952699220120168


image-20201103075403-21 Ana Cecilia Olmos
Ana Cecilia Olmos holds a Bachelor's Degree in Modern Literature from the National University of Córdoba (1985), a Master's Degree in Literary Theory from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1994), and a PhD in Literature (Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature) from the University of São Paulo (2000). She is currently an associate professor at the University of São Paulo. She has experience in the field of Literature, with an emphasis on Hispanic-American Literature, working mainly on the following themes: Latin American culture, Argentine literature, critical discourse, Hispanic-American essays, Hispanic-American narratives, and Latin American cultural magazines. In addition to articles in academic journals and popular magazines, she has published the books Why Read Borges? (2008) and Escritas decenteradas. O ensaios dos escritors na América Latina (2019).

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: anaolmos@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1304634956986356


image-20201103075418-22 Benivaldo José de Araújo Júnior
Bachelor's degree (2000) and teaching degree (2003) in Spanish/Portuguese Literature from the University of São Paulo. Diploma in Hispanic Studies from the University of Barcelona (2001). Master's degree (2007) and PhD (2014) in Spanish Language from the University of São Paulo, with research focused on the comparison between Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. He worked in the extension program Español en el Campus, as coordinator (2003) and monitor (2002-2006). He was a Spanish language teacher in open courses (2004-2009) and in the International Relations course at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), in São Paulo (2007-2015). He has participated in publications (books, academic journals and dictionaries) as an author and translator. Professor of Spanish Language at the Department of Modern Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), working at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Accredited to supervise: Master's
E-mail: beniaraujo@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1094284092315945


image-20201103075418-22 Fernanda dos Santos Castelano Rodrigues
Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the Department of Literature at the Federal University of São Carlos since 2008. Tenured Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literatures at the Department of Modern Literature at the School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo. Graduated in Literature from the University of São Paulo (1996 - Bachelor's and Bachelor's degrees), Master's (2003) and Doctorate (2010) in Literature - Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literatures from the same university. Post-doctorate as a Collaborating Researcher at the Center for Research on Politics, Enunciation, History, Materialities, Sexualities (POEHMAS) of the Institute of Language Studies at the State University of Campinas (2018). Specialization in Public Policies for Equality in Latin America (2018) by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Develops and directs research mainly on the following topics: teaching/learning of Spanish in Brazil; language policies; language rights; language legislation; educational legislation. Member of the Public Policy Committee of Abralin (2022-2023). Member of the board of the Brazilian Association of Hispanists in the biennia 2008-2010 and 2010-2012. Director of the Language Institute of UFSCar from 2016 to 2017. President of the Union of Teachers in Federal Higher Education Institutions of the cities of São Carlos, Araras and Sorocaba (ADUFSCar-Sindicato), biennium 2021-2023. Member of the Association of Spanish Teachers of the State of São Paulo (APEESP) and the Brazilian Association of Hispanists (ABH). 

Accredited to supervise: Master's
E-mail: fecastel@gmail.com
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2355244042442645


image-20201103075426-23 Heloisa Pezza Cintrão
Professor of the Language and Translation course at the University of São Paulo, Spanish specialization, since 2000. Full-time professor with a PhD. Bachelor's degree (1992) and Licentiate's degree (1994) in Language and Literature from the University of São Paulo, in the Portuguese and Spanish specializations. Specialization in the *Course for Teachers of Spanish Language and Literature* (1996), in Madrid, with a scholarship from AECI - Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. Master's degree (1998) and PhD (2006) in Language and Literature from the University of São Paulo. Post-doctorate (2009) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. Bibliographic production including articles in specialized journals, works in conference proceedings, book chapters, translations and participation in the production of bilingual dictionaries. Participation in events in Brazil and abroad. Main area of ​​concentration: Translation Studies. Also works on Spanish Language and Spanish Literature. The most frequent terms in the contextualization of scientific production are: Translation Studies, translation competence, translator training, declarative knowledge, Cervantes, Quixote, novelistic and Northrop Frye.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: heloisacintrao@yahoo.com.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5599632691649004


image-20201103075433-24 Idalia Morejón Arnaiz
Professor of Hispanic-American Literature at the University of São Paulo (USP, 2011). Bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature from the University of Havana (UH) (1987), Master's degree in Literature (French Language and Literature) from the University of São Paulo (USP) (2000) and PhD in Latin American Integration (Comparative Literature) from the University of São Paulo (2004). Post-doctorate in the Department of Literary Theory of the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2007-2010). She has experience in the area of ​​Spanish Language and Literature, working mainly on the following themes: Hispanic-American Narrative and Poetry, Intellectuals and Politics in Latin America, Hispanic-American Literary Periodicals, Exoticism and Orientalism in Latin American Literature.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: idaliamorejonarnaiz@yahoo.com.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0442020783757122


image-20201103075441-25 Laura Janina Hosiasson
Laura Hosiasson holds a degree in Literature with a specialization in Philosophy from the University of Chile (1980), a master's degree in Literature (Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature) from the University of São Paulo (1989) and a PhD in Literature (Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature) from the University of São Paulo (1996). She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo. She received the title of Full Professor in 2017. She has experience in the area of ​​Literature, with an emphasis on Hispanic-American Literature, working mainly in the following fields: Chilean literature, 19th-century Literary Nationalism, literature and fantasy, and contemporary Hispanic-American literature. Recent projects specialized in the work of Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920).

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: lhosiass@uol.com.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3438193045649287


image-20201103075449-26 Margareth dos Santos
Margareth dos Santos holds a degree in Literature from the University of São Paulo (1994), a master's degree in Literature (Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature) from the University of São Paulo (2000), and a PhD in Literature (Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature) from the University of São Paulo (2006). She is currently a professor, on a RDIDP basis, at the University of São Paulo. Her lines of work include examining the relationships between literature, art, and history in the 20th century, both in Spain and in the Ibero-American context, in production linked to the Spanish Civil War and the post-Spanish Civil War. She is currently developing a research project focused on the relationships between literature and art.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: marsanto@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6690345751935959


image-20201103075456-27 Maria Augusta da Costa Vieira
Maria Augusta da Costa Vieira is a Full Professor of Spanish Literature at the Department of Modern Literature, School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, and a researcher at CNPq. She began teaching at the University of São Paulo in 1977, and completed her master's degree in 1985, her doctorate in 1994, her associate professorship in 2008, and in 2014 she took the position of full professor. Her research focuses on 16th and 17th century Spanish literature, particularly the work of Miguel de Cervantes. She coordinates the research group "Cervantes: poetics, rhetoric and discursive forms in 16th and 17th century Spain" (CNPq). She has published articles in specialized journals, conference proceedings, and several book chapters published in Brazil and abroad. In 1998, he published O Dito pelo não diz: paradoxos de Dom Quixote (The Said Through the Unspoken: Paradoxes of Don Quixote) (Edusp/Fapesp). To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first part of Don Quixote, he organized a book that brings together critical studies by authors from various countries, entitled Dom Quixote: a letra e os caminhos (Don Quixote: a letra e os caminhos [Don Quixote: the letter and the paths] (2006, finalist for the Jabuti Prize), and, at the same time, he organized an International Symposium on the work of Cervantes (September 2005). In 2012, he published A narrativa ingenosa de Miguel de Cervantes: estudos cervantinos e invenção do Quixote no Brasil [The Ingenious Narrative of Miguel de Cervantes: Cervantine Studies and the Reception of Don Quixote in Brazil] (Edusp/Fapesp, Jabuti Prize 2013, category Theory and Literary Criticism). In terms of institutional engagement, in addition to several other activities, from 2009 to 2011 and from 2011 to 2013, he was head of the Department of Modern Literature. She supervises undergraduate, master's and doctoral research projects and supervises postdoctoral projects in the Graduate Program in Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature. She has given lectures and conferences in several countries (Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Poland, India, Costa Rica, Mexico, among others) and in several Brazilian institutions. From 2002 to 2007 she was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Hispanists and from 2009 to 2015 she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Cervantists. In 2015 she organized the 9th CINDAC - International Congress of the Association of Cervantists - held at the University of São Paulo; a congress that, for the first time, was held on American soil. In 2016 she was reelected to the Board of Directors of the International Association of Hispanists and in the same year she was named "Member Correspondente Extranjero de la Real Academia Española". In 2017, she was a member of the jury for the Cervantes Prize as a representative of the International Association of Hispanists, an award granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Spain) and the Royal Spanish Academy. In 2018, she was honored by the Duques de Soria Foundation as an International Hispanist, in Madrid, along with other colleagues from non-Hispanic countries. In 2019, she was reelected as a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Hispanists for the three-year period 2019/2022. In 2019, she edited the book Cervantes Plural, which brings together articles by several members of the Cervantes Study Group: poetics, rhetoric and discursive forms of 16th- and 17th-century Spain, published by Ed. Humanitas/FFLCH/USP, with the support of the Cervantes Institute of São Paulo.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: mavieira@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8769804694444711


image-20201103075456-27 María Dolores Aybar Ramírez
María Dolores Aybar Ramírez holds a degree in French Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid (1986); a Master's degree in Modern Literature / Spanish (Research on popular culture – and in particular festivities – based on the Relationships of the Peoples of the Bishopric of Cuenca – 16th century) from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3 (1992); a PhD in Literary Studies (From the literature of exiles to exiled literature: Spatiality in L'agneau carnivore, by Agustin Gomez-Arcos) from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP- FCLAr, 2003) and a Post-Doctorate in Spanish Literature (History and Women: Juana I between France and Spain and between History and Fiction), from the State University of São Paulo (USP, São Paulo, 2015). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature at UNESP, Araraquara Campus - SP (FCLAr) and an accredited Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literatures at FFLCH of the University of São Paulo (USP). She also leads the CNPq Research Group GIPMEL (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Women and Literature - Ana de Miguel). She has experience in the area of ​​Literature, with an emphasis on Modern Foreign Literatures, notably Spanish Literature, working mainly on the following themes: Literature and History, Literature and Women, Intertextuality and Exiled Literature. She also develops artistic activities in the fields of fictional writing (À contraluz, and Fuga em Azul – Ré menor, from 2007), professional photography and visual arts.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: lolaybar@uol.com.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4568395697430320


image-20201103075504-28 María Teresa Celada
PhD in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (2002). Since 1992, she has been a professor and researcher at the University of São Paulo, where she holds a PhD. She conducts research in the area of ​​Discourse Analysis, which focuses on the study of the functioning of the Spanish language and the Brazilian language, in the comparison between the functioning of subjectivities and discourses in Brazil and Argentina, in a space of enunciation traversed by discourses of integration. She has been the coordinator of the Spanish Area of ​​the Language Center of USP since 2003. In 2008, she developed a postdoctoral research project at UBA (Argentina) with a grant from FAPESP (Process 08/54641-9): “Trails of discursive memory on Portuguese in Argentina. Subjects/languages. Knowledge.” She was a critical reader of the Curricular Guidelines for Secondary Education (Spanish) in 2006. In 2009 and 2010 she served as Deputy Coordinator and as Writer of the PNLD 2011, and as a critical reader of the PNLD 2013 (UFF). Since 2013, she has been a representative of USP in the Disciplinary Nucleus PELSE (Portuguese, Spanish, second and foreign languages) of AUGM (Association of Universities Grupo Montevideo). Vice-President of APEESP for the 2019-2020 biennium.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: maitechu@terra.com.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0953359923773328


image-20201103075512-29 Mônica Ferreira Mayrink O'Kuinghttons
Mônica Mayrink holds a degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of São Paulo (1990), a degree in English Language and Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1988), a master's degree in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2000), and a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2007). She has taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and at the Faculty of Sciences and Letters of UNESP, Araraquara Campus. She is currently a researcher and professor of undergraduate and graduate studies in the Department of Modern Languages ​​(FFLCH/USP) and Director of the Interdepartmental Center of Languages ​​of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP. She is the leader of the Research Group Language, Education and Virtuality (LEV) and of the Group Teaching Resources for the Classroom of Spanish as a Foreign Language (E/LE), registered by the University of São Paulo. He has experience in the area of ​​Education, with an emphasis on Training Spanish Language Teachers in Literature courses, working mainly on the following topics: reflection, teaching Spanish, teacher training, face-to-face and distance learning, Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Approach.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: momayrink@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4160301637111992


image-20201103075520-30 Pablo Fernando Gasparini

Professor at the University of São Paulo (Department of Modern Literature, School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences). Professor of Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR, Argentina, 1994), with a master's degree (1999) and a doctorate (2004) in Latin American literature from the University of São Paulo under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jorge Schwartz. He was a Lecturer at the University of Maryland at College Park (2001-2002). He did postdoctoral work at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, 2004-2008) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Márcio Seligmann-Silva. He was a scholarship holder of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in various modalities (master's, doctorate and postdoctorate between 1997 and 2008, external research scholarship at Université Paris 8 in 2006). In 2006 he published El exilio procaz: Gombrowicz por la Argentina (Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo) and, since 2010, he has been researching and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of São Paulo. He has taught several graduate courses at the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and has participated as a visiting professor in graduate courses at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (Peru) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). From 2012 to 2015, he was coordinator at the University of São Paulo of the international project "TRANSIT. Transnationality at Large. The transnational dimension of Hispanic culture in the 20th and 21st centuries", led by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (with the participation of a broad network of European and American universities). He was coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literatures at the University of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017. His research topics focus on the themes of exile, immigration and the problems of linguistic/literary displacement. He has published articles in several books and international journals. His academic production focuses on the works of Néstor Perlongher, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Antonio Porchia, Héctor Bianciotti, Copi, Vilém Flusser, Witold Gombrowicz and Augusto Roa Bastos, among others. He is currently preparing the book Puertos: Diccionarios. Literaturas y alteridad linguada desde la pampa, the result of his thesis for a postdoctoral degree at the University of São Paulo (2018).

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: pablogasparini@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2203163370899281
Link to page with articles published by the author: https://edisciplinas.usp.br/course/view.php?id=30712


Rosângela Aparecida Dantas de Oliveira

Rosângela Dantas de Oliveira is a Spanish teacher in the Language and Literature course at Unifesp - Guarulhos campus. She holds a bachelor's degree and a teaching degree in Portuguese/Spanish from the University of São Paulo. She has a master's degree in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, and a PhD in Spanish Language and Spanish and Hispanic-American Literature from the University of São Paulo. She has experience in the area of ​​Languages, with an emphasis on Modern Foreign Languages, working in the teaching and learning of Spanish. She is also a translator, with several published translations. She was a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo between 1998 and 2006 and at Colégio Bandeirantes between 2002 and 2012. Her areas of interest as a researcher include linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, comics, teacher training, technology and language teaching, and university extension. Between 2022 and 2024, he carried out postdoctoral research in the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies at the São José do Rio Preto campus of UNESP investigating the use of Spanish in Portuguese/English Teletandem partnerships.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: rosangela.dantas@unifesp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8756410637361326

 

Virginia Sita Farias

Virginia Farias is a Professor of Spanish Language in the Department of Modern Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo/FFLCH-USP. She has been a Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Neo-Latin Letters of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ since February 1, 2022. She was an Adjunct Professor of Spanish Language in the Department of Neo-Latin Letters of the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ between August 4, 2014 and December 10, 2023. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universität Paderborn/Germany between September 1, 2018 and April 30, 2019 with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with CAPES. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Literature with a Specialization in Portuguese and Literatures of the Portuguese Language and Spanish and Literatures of the Spanish Language from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/UFRGS (2006), a Master's Degree in Lexicography and Terminology from the Postgraduate Program in Literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/UFRGS (2009) (CAPES Scholarship), and a PhD in Linguistic Theories of the Lexicon from the Postgraduate Program in Literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/UFRGS (2013) (CNPq Scholarship) - with a sandwich doctorate period at the Institut für Romanistik at the Universität Paderborn/Germany between 01.04.2012 and 31.03.2013 (DAAD-CNPq Scholarship). He has research experience in linguistics / applied linguistics, with an emphasis on lexicography, metalexicography, pedagogical lexicography (school dictionaries), lexicology, lexical semantics, variety linguistics / sociolinguistics, (intra)linguistic policies and pluricentric languages, pluricentrism and normative / lexicographic codification, Spanish and Portuguese as pluricentric languages.

Accredited to supervise: Master's and Doctorate
E-mail: virginiafarias@usp.br
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3453858188186295