#  João Marcos Copertino Pereira 

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   ![Joao](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-04/jm.jpg?itok=b2g1g3jZ) 

 



 

 email <jmcopertinopereira@g.harvard.edu> 

 



 

**Research Interests:** I am currently working with Brazilian literature of the 19th and 20th century. My main research focus is how the melodramatic mode shaped Brazilian nationalistic literature's relationship with race and desire. Therefore, I am analyzing operas, theater plays and novels. In my non-academic time, I am often writing about opera, you can read me at OperaWire or (if you read in Portuguese) folha de são paulo.

**Academic Degrees:** BA in History, Universidade de São Paulo, 2015; MA in Cultural Narratives, University of Sheffield; Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Université de Perpignan via Domitia, 2018.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Department Role
    
     [Graduate Student](/people/role/graduate-student)
- ## Language
    
     [Portuguese](/language/portuguese)