Narlan Matos earned a BA from the Federal University at Bahia, where he was awarded several research fellowships. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico, where he was also a TA. Has worked for nearly six years as a TA at the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where he is currently writing his PhD thesis entitled Inventory of Chaos: Rogério Duarte, Tropicália and Post-Modernity. His work has brought back to attention the lost legacy of Tropicalist theoretician Rogério Duarte. As a result of that, a whole lost generation legacy has been identified and reincorporated to the canon. He has participated in the International Visitor’s Leadership Program, as an official guest of the United States of America.