
Dr Gustavo Infante
Current positions
Deputy Language Director (Portuguese)
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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Research interests
Teaching:
Deputy Language Director (Portuguese), overseer of the Portuguese language programme
Representative of Instituto Camões, Portugal, at the University of Bristol
2024/25
Y1 Portuguese ab-initio: all skills
Y2 Portuguese: Integrated Skills
Y4 Portuguese: Integrated Skills
HISP20120: Mobility and Displacement in the Lusophone World (co-teacher)
HISP30070: Dictatorships, prisons, and writings in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds (unit convenor)
MODLM0025: Theorising Violence; Colonial encounters and anticolonial reactions. (1 week lecture & seminar)
Research:
Prison literature in the context of Portuguese and Brazilian dictatorships.
Comparative Literature: Chinese and Portuguese 20th-century fiction
'Res Sinicae' project (Classics, University of Lisbon): edition and translation into Portuguese of 'Sapientia Sinica', i.e., the Analects of Confucius in Latin translation, Chinese text, and romanisation of Chinese text.
After having spent four years in Beijing, I moved to Bristol as a PhD student. I ended up staying in Bristol and consider myself a bit Bristolian now.
Member of research teams at:
Centre of Classical Studies (University of Lisbon)
Literature(s) from Macau (University of Macau, University of Lisbon, University of São Paulo, Università degli studi di Firenze)
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Brasilien über alles
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Dictatorships in Portuguese
Dictatorships in Portuguese
Literatura de Macau de expressão portuguesa: localizar, mapear e escrever
Macau: Novas Leituras
Portuguese Asia: literary testimonies, the scattered pieces of an empire after its decline and end
New Approaches to Lusophone Culture
Macau menina-mulher na poesia de Fernanda Dias
La spugna è la mia anima
China: espaço e lugar na poesia de António Graça de Abreu
Trasparenze e rifrazioni: l'Oriente nella poesia di lingua portoghese moderna e contemporanea
Thesis
When the mountains speak: the voices of rural landscape in the short stories of Miguel Torga and Han Shaogong
Supervisors
Award date
01/01/2014