Fall 2011

Dr. Eduardo Coutinho has a BA in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1968), an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1973) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley (1983). He is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has experience in the Arts with emphasis in Comparative Literature, acting on the following topics: comparative literature, Latin America, literary theory, literature, Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa. Dr. Eduardo Coutinho will teach the graduate seminar “Poetic Constructions and the Formation of the Cultural Imaginary in Brazil” (PORT 410/510) during the Fall 2011 semester.