Pedro Meira Monteiro, associate professor of Brazilian literature
Professor Meira Monteiro joined the Princeton faculty in 2002, after an academic training in Brazil and France. He has written and published numerous articles in anthologies and academic journals in Latin America and the United States. He is the author and editor of several books.
He currently teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and is associate faculty of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University.
He combines his passion for
literature with a consistent interest in cultural and intellectual
history. The courses and seminars he offers at Princeton reflect his enthusiasm for interdisciplinary and comparative studies. His current research focuses on the Brazilian modernist tradition and its legacies within a Latin American context, on the relations between literature and morality, and on theoretical aspects in the late narrative of Brazil's greatest writer Machado de Assis.