Gustavo Brito

Professor Gustavo Brito holds a PhD in Literary Studies from UFG, with a thesis titled Bitita - Parresia and Postupok in the Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus. He is a playwright and researcher with the Djambalau Theater Group. Professor Brito graduated in Literature in 2008 from UFG and earned his Master’s degree in Literary Studies from the same institution in 2013, with a dissertation titled Great Stone Houses: The Body, the Land, and Memory in the Fiction of Chenjerai Hove. This work was presented at the 41st Conference of the African Literature Association in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2014, and later published in the academic anthology Horizons and Above, by Patridge, India, in 2016. He taught at the higher education program in Scenic Production (ITEGO) until March 2017. In research and outreach, Professor Brito coordinated the project The Day Mabata-bata Exploded, which aimed to facilitate access to African literature. This project gave birth to a play and was funded by the Municipal Law for Cultural Incentive in 2015. Professor Gustavo Brito is also a co-founder of The Rising Sun English Course, a school built on the investigation of various methodological approaches to foreign language teaching, with a particular focus on teaching English through literature, especially African literatures.