The department of Spanish and Portuguese is thrilled to welcome anthropologist and fiction author Pedro Cesarino as part of its long-standing writer-in-residence program. Over the past two decades, the department has hosted acclaimed Brazilian writers and artists, among them, Milton Hatoum, Nuno Ramos, Cidinha da Silva, Ricardo Aleixo and Itamar Vieira Jr. Professor Cesarino will join our department from March 7 to 21, during which he'll give a public talk, visit classes, hold office hours, and work on his own writing.
Pedro Cesarino is Professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. He is specialized in shamanism, oral traditions and cosmology of Amazonian native peoples and has published several articles and books such as Oniska - poética do xamanismo na Amazônia (Perspectiva, 2011) and "Amazonian shamanic enquiry: formulaic composition and specialized discourse" (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2023). As a novelist he published Rio Acima (Companhia das Letras, 2016, translated to French as L'atrrapeur d'oiseaux (Rivages, 2022) and A repetição (Todavia, 2023). In 2023, he was resident at the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l'écriture et la littérature. His third novel will be published in 2025 in Brazil by Todavia as Os urubus não esquecem and by Rivages as Les vautours n'oubient pas.
For questions about Prof. Cesarino's visit, contact Nathaniel Wolfson.
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