Professor Librandi specializes in Brazilian literature and culture within a comparative framework. She is particularly focused on the modern period, from the nineteenth century to the present.

She was born in São Paulo, where she earned her MA and PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Universidade de São Paulo. From 2004-2008, she taught in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia. She was the editor of the journal Magma (USP), and she has edited the journal Floema, co-organizing various thematic issues.

Professor Librandi has edited an anthology of the poetry of J.P.Goldberg entitled, Poemas-Vida (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2008). Her forthcoming book, Maranhão-Manhattan. Ensaios de Literatura brasileira (7Letras), contains essays focused on: Sousândrade, Federico García Lorca, and the philosophy of multinaturalism; the Murilo Mendes poem, "Algo" in relation to the concepts of "production of presence" and the "figural"; Paulo Leminski’s novel, Catatau, and the dilemmas of a "tropical style" as opposed to Cartesian thought; and João Guimarães Rosa's short stories in light of the theories of Derrida and Gorgias. The volume's second part examines books by Luiz Costa Lima, João Adolfo Hansen, Augusto de Campos and Haroldo de Campos.

In the News

"New Grants promote arts at Stanford". Stanford Report, May 27, 2009. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/may27/sica-052709.html

"Jacob Pinheiro Goldberg. La poesia como fuente de vida. Por Jorge Sanglard. In Letralia. La revista de los escritores hispanoamericanos em internet. Oct. 5, 1009. http://www.letralia.com/219/articulo03.htm 

In portuguese. "Jacob Pinheiro Goldberg. A Poesia como Fonte de Vida". Review by Jorge Sanglard. Cronópios, June 11, 2009. 

http://www.cronopios.com.br/site/resenhas.asp?id=4032 

"Reflexões sobre a rapsódia de Mário de Andrade". Cronópios, Sept. 2, 2008. http://www.cronopios.com.br/site/ensaios.asp?id=3498 

Education

PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 2003.

Authored Books

(In press). Maranhão-Manhattan. Ensaios de Literatura brasileira. Prologue by Luiz Costa Lima. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras.

Edited Books and Special Issues

(In progress). "Literatura e Juizo de Valor," Special issue of Floema co-edited with Pedro Dolabela Chagas.

(In progress). "Literatura e viagem." Special issue of Floema co-edited with Lucia Ricotta

(2009). "H.von Kleist por H.U.Gumbrecht." Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira and Lucia Ricotta

(2008). Poemas-Vida: Antologia de Jacob P. Goldberg. Introd. João Adolfo Hansen. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras.

(2007). "Especial Joan Ramon Resina." Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira, Lucia Ricotta, and Fanny M.Tabak.

(2006). "João Guimarães Rosa," Special issue of Floema co-edited with Lucia Ricotta and Ricardo M. Valle.

(2006). "Especial João Adolfo Hansen," Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira and Ricardo M. Valle.

(2006). "Especial Luiz Costa Lima," Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira and Ricardo M. Valle.

(2005). "Especial Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht," Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira.

(2005). "As Letras no Império Marítimo Lusitano II," Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira.

(2004). "As Letras no Império Marítimo Lusitano I (séculos XVI, XVII, XVIII)." Special issue of Floema co-edited with Marcello Moreira.

Articles and Book Chapters

(Forthcoming, January 2010). "Naming the unnamable. Literature in time of cholera." (accepted) In Crossroads. An interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy,religion and classics. http://www.uq.edu.au/crossroads/current.html

(2008). "Maranhão - Manhattan: A bridge between us and the U.S. A dissonant view of Brazilian Literature and Culture." Eutomia - Revista de Literatura (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR). In Portuguese and English, http://www.ufpe.br/revistaeutomia/new02/especialdeartigos.php

(2008) "Duas leituras de Sousandrade:de perto e de longe." Eutomia - Revista de Literatura (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR). http://www.ufpe.br/revistaeutomia/home02/index.php

(2007). "Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard. The concepts of figural and presence." Producing Presences. Branching out from Gumbrecht's Work. Ed. Victor K. Mendes and João Cezar de Castro Rocha. Dartmouth, MA: U of Massachusetts at Dartmouth P. 315-330.

(2007). "Pirlimpsiquice e o teatro impossível de teatro." Revista USP 72: 121-28.

(2007). "Anos 70: Trajetórias." Politéia: Revista de História 6: 243-50.

(2006). "Outras Palavras: O Catatau de Paulo Leminski em três tempos." Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada 9: 243-58.

(2006). "Imagens do erotismo em Grande Sertão: Veredas." Floema 2.3: 109-36.

Online Articles

João Guimarães Rosa. Biografia. Vidas Lusófonas.

Translation

(2008). "Convergência Paradoxal. Desafios e oportunidades em nosso futuro?" Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Robert Harrison et al. Revista da USP 76.