Eduardo Sterzi

Eduardo Sterzi is a writer, critic, curator, and professor of literary theory at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), where he also coordinates the Graduate Program in literary theory and history. His research includes the relations between the Middle Ages and modernity in literature, as well as the topos of the waste land in modern and contemporary poetry and the survival and dissolution of myth, as well as the relationship between anthropology, literature, and the arts in Sousândrade, Oswald de Andrade, and Mário de Andrade. He cocurated the traveling exhibition Variations of the Wild Body: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Photographer (SESC Ipiranga, São Paulo, Brazil, September 2015 to January 2016; Weltkulturenmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany, November 2017; and International Center of Arts José de Guimarães, Portugal, February 2019). He carried out part of his doctoral (2003–2004) and postdoctoral (2009) research at the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza in Italy. He received scholarships from the main research promotion agencies in Brazil (CAPES, CNPq and FAPESP). His publications include Por que ler Dante (2008) and A prova dos nove: alguma poesia moderna e a tarefa da alegria (2008), Prosa (2001), Aleijão (2009), Cavalo sopa martelo (2011), and Maus poemas (2016). He used to be the editor of Do céu do futuro: cinco ensaios sobre Augusto de Campos.