Faculty Members

Faculty Members

Art, Fashion: History and Culture
Débora Pinguello Morgado
Elisabeth Murilho da Silva
Henrique Grimaldi Figueredo – Collaborator
Letícia Bertagna
Marcelo Ribeiro Vasconcelos – Collaborator
Maria Claudia Bonadio
Maria Lucia Bueno Ramos
Raquel Quinet de Andrade Pifano
Renata Cristina de Oliveira Maia Zago Mazzoni Marcato

Cinema and Audiovisual
Alessandra Souza Melett Brum
Carlos Perez Reyna
Christian Hugo PelegriniEliska Altmann – Collaborator
Felipe de Castro Muanis
Lúcio Reis Filho – Collaborator
Luís Alberto Rocha Melo
Luiz Carlos Oliveira Junior
Sérgio José Puccini Soares

Music and Sound Arts
Fernando Vago Santana
Heloísa de A. Duarte Valente – Collaborator
Henrique Vaz
Luiz Castelões
Marta Cardoso Castello Branco Garzon
Mayra Pereira
Rafael Moreira Fortes
Raquel Rohr

ART, FASHION: HISTORY AND CULTURE

Débora Pinguello Morgado

She is a professor at UFJF in the following programs: Bachelor’s in Fashion; Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages; and Specialization in Fashion, Art, and Culture.

She holds a degree in Fashion, a Master’s in History from the State University of Maringá, and a Ph.D. in History from the State University of Santa Catarina.

Her research focuses on the historiographical field and its intersections with fashion, art, and consumption in the second half of the 20th century, based on the encyclopedias of Abril Cultural.

Additionally, she is interested in research that addresses the practices of fashion production and consumption from the field of History and/or Social Sciences; and research related to the production and consumption of fashion and cultural goods in their political and economic aspects, which may also be linked to environmental management.

Email: deborapmorgado@ufjf.br

Elisabeth Murilho

She holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1993), a Master’s in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1996), and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2003).

She is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.

She has experience in the fields of Urban Anthropology and Sociology, with an emphasis on Sociology of Fashion and Sociology of Youth, primarily working on the following topics: youth culture, gender constructions, feminism, and racism related to appearance and fashion; the 1980s and its consequences.

Email: murilho@gmail.com

Henrique Grimaldi
He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (IFCH/UNICAMP/FAPESP), with a doctoral stage at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (CRBC/EHESS/FAPESP).

He holds a Master’s degree in Arts, Culture, and Languages (IAD/UFJF/FAPEMIG), with a thesis in the area of cultural sociology, art, and fashion.

He is a collaborator professor at the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL/IAD/UFJF).

He is a professional member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Costume, Fashion and Textiles (COSTUME) and the research networks Sociology of the Arts/European Sociological Association (ESA) and Luso-Afro- Brazilian Network of Sociology of Culture and the Arts.

Since 2018, he has served as executive editor of the journal Todas as Artes: Revista Luso-Brasileira de Artes e Cultura, based at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (UPORTO).

He has experience in the Social Sciences with an emphasis on Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Fashion, Sociology/Anthropology of Consumption, and Sociology/Anthropology of Urbanism. He focuses on the following themes: contemporary fashion; consumption, culture, and lifestyles; contemporary art; globalization and mondialization; aesthetic/stylized markets; urban cultural scenes from the 1980s onward.

Email: henriquegrimaldifigueredo@outlook.com

Letícia Bertagna
She works as a professor in the Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at the Institute of Arts and Design (UFJF) and in the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (UFJF), where she coordinates the research group LEIE: Laboratory of Image and Writing Studies.

She holds a Ph.D. in Arts (UERJ) and a Master’s in Visual Poetics (UFRGS). Her artistic and theoretical practice revolves around photography, video, performative actions, objects, and texts, with an interest in the relationships between writing and image and, more specifically, in the construction of narratives, situations, and verbovisual fictions, as well as in the agency between experience, imagination, poetics, and language in the writings of artists.

Some of her most recent collective exhibitions include: Podium, Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana (2022); The Day the Owls Fell from the Sky, Plataforma Verter (2021); Experience No. 14, A Mesa (2017); Fala, Galeria Ecarta (2017); Possible Testimonies, Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes (2016), and her solo exhibitions: Work of Time, Galeria Guaçuí (2022), Place of Passage, Goethe Institut (2012), and Bottom of the Outside, CCBM (2016).

Email: leticia.bertagna@ufjf.br

Marcelo Ribeiro
He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from PPGSA/UFRJ and a Ph.D. in Sociology from PPGS/IFCH/UNICAMP.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at PPGACL/IAD/UFJF.

His research interests include: Sociology of Art, History of Art Criticism, Art and Politics, Art and the Market.

Email: marcelo.ribeiro84@gmail.com

Maria Claudia Bonadio

She holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. in History from Unicamp. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Museu Paulista (USP). She is a professor at the Bachelor’s in Fashion program, the PPGACL (IAD), and PPG-History (ICH) at UFJF.

She is the author of the books "Fashion and Sociability: Women and Consumption in 1920s São Paulo" (2007) and "Fashion and Advertising in 1960s Brazil" (2014), and the editor of "History and Culture of Fashion" (2011) and "Histories of Men’s Dressing; (2017).

Her articles have been published in national and international journals such as Fashion Theory, International Journal of Fashion Studies, and Film, Fashion & Consumption. She is the author of the entry "Consumerism and Advertising in 20th-Century Brazil", published in the Encyclopedia of Latin American History by Oxford Press.

She is the leader of the research group History and Culture of Fashion.

Since 2015, she has been the editor of the journal dObra[s]: Association of Studies and Research on Fashion. She coordinates the project @historiadamoda.ufjf on Instagram.

Her main research interests focus on the study of fashion and dress from a historical and historiographical perspective, visual/audiovisual culture, and fashion consumption in Brazil, as well as the relationship between fashion, appearances, and gender roles.

Publications
YouTube Channel of the Research Group in Fashion History and Culture

Other works:

• Fashion and Cinema: Representations of Ancient Classical Clothing and Relations with Fashion (Modapar Channel and Cidade Institute)
• Live session “Fashion and Crisis” (conversation with Tetê Laudares, profile Descomplicando a Moda)
• Press, Fashion, and Women: Transits, Circulation, and Exchanges (Fundação Casa de Ruy Barbosa, 2018), title: Fashion, Gender, and the Uses of Image in "The Spirit of Clothes"
• Interview on Fashion and Politics for the website Petiscos
• Book review of “Fashion and Advertising”
• Report on the book “Fashion and Advertising”
• Interview for the blog “Fashion to Read”
• Book review of “Fashion and Sociability”
• Report on the book “Fashion and Advertising”
• Interview about Fashion and Tropicália
• Report on the exhibition “Clothes to Not Wear”
• Interview for the program Cenário (TV Local, Sorocaba)

Email: mariaclaudia.bonadio@ufjf.br

 Maria Lucia Bueno Ramos

She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Social Sciences from PUC-SP and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from UNICAMP.]

She has completed several postdoctoral fellowships: at the Institute of Arts at Unicamp/FAPESP, École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales/EHESS, and Université Paris Est/FAPESP.

She was a visiting professor at the Institut d’études européennes, Université Paris 8 (2015-16), and at the Department of Sociology at New School for Social Research (New York, 2016), both funded by Capes.

She conducted senior research in 2019 at CRBC-École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

She is the coordinator of the Sociology of Art Working Group at the Brazilian Sociological Society (SBS) Congresses.

Her expertise lies in the fields of cultural and art sociology and social history, with a focus on the following topics: Artists, Institutions, and the Market; Collections, Exhibitions, and Museums; production and circulation of culture and arts; Brazilian Culture and Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; Artistic and Cultural Work: Consumption and Lifestyles; Gender; Aestheticization of Everyday Life; Gastronomy; Fashion; Design; Urban Culture; Cultural Industry; Modernity; Globalization and Globalization.

Email: marialucia.bueno@gmail.com

Research Group: Aesthetics, Consumption, and Globalization: Transformations in the World of Arts. Visual Arts, Architecture, Design, Fashion, and Gastronomy. Research Coordinator (leader)

Research Projects:

• Collections, Museums, and Exhibitions: Consecration and Globalization in the World of Modern and Contemporary Art. Brazilian and Latin American Art as Case Studies.
• Aesthetics, Consumer Society, and Globalization. A Study on the Interactions Between the Art World and the Creative Economy (Visual Arts, Fashion, Design, and Gastronomy). A Historical and Sociological Perspective.
• Work, Success, and Professionalization in Contemporary Art. A Historical and Comparative Perspective.

Main Publications:

• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2001. Plastic Arts in the 20th Century: Modernity and Globalization (2nd Edition). Campinas: UNICAMP Press/Official Press/FAPESP.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2005. “The Gallery Market and the Commerce of Modern Art. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s-1960s.” Revista Sociedade e Estado, v. 20, no. 2, pp. 377-402.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia, CAMARGO, Luiz Octavio L. (ed.). 2008. Culture and Consumption. Lifestyles in Contemporary Society. São Paulo: Senac Publishing.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia (ed.). 2012. Sociology of the Visual Arts in Brazil. São Paulo: Senac Publishing.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2012. “Les femmes de la Haute-couture. Mode et genre au début du XXème Siècle.” In: M. Buschatto, M. Leontsini; M. Maruani, B. Pequinot, and H. Ravet (eds.). Créations. Le genre à L’œuvre. Paris: L’Harmattan (Social Logics/Sociology of Art).
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2013. “Gastronomy and Consumer Society. Brazilian Cultural Traditions and Lifestyles in Globalization.” In: Reflections on Material Culture. Artistic Manifestations and Social Sciences (eds. Patricia Reinheimer and Sabrina Sant’Anna), Rio de Janeiro: Folha Sêca.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2014. “Une modernité brésilienne: Art moderne et marché de l’art à São Paulo et Rio de Janeiro au milieu du XXe siècle.” Sociologie de l’Art. Revue Internationale, v. 22, pp. 109-124.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2016. “The Condition of Contemporary Artists in Brazil: Between University and the Market.” In: Art et Société. Recherches récentes et regards croisés, (eds. Glaucia Villas Boas and Alain Quemin) Brazil/France. Marseille: Open Edition.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia; DABUL, Ligia. 2016. Dossier: "Art, World". Revista Nava, vol. 1, no. 2. Juiz de Fora: UFJF Publishing, 2016, v. 1, no. 2.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2016. “Visual Culture and Lifestyles. French Fashion Magazines and High Couture Marketing Strategies in the Early 20th Century.” Maracanan, v. 12, pp. 75-96.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. 2016. “From French Gastronomy to Globalized Gastronomy: Hybrids and Invented Identities.” Cadernos do CRH (UFBA), v. 29, pp. 443-462.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia; SANT’ANNA, S.P.; DABUL, L. Sociology of Art: Notes on the Construction of a Discipline. Revista Brasileira de Sociologia, v. 6, pp. 266-289, 2018.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. Fashion, Gender, and Social Ascension. Women of Haute-Couture: From Craftswomen to Prestigious Professionals. DOBRAS (Barueri, SP), v. 11, pp. 101-130, 2018.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. Women’s Haute Couture and Modernization of Fashion. Art, Marketing, and Visual Culture in the Early 20th Century. In: Keep it Simple, Make it Fast. An Approach to Underground Music Scenes, 1st ed. Porto, Portugal: University of Porto, Faculty of Arts, 2019, v. 1, pp. 403-415.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia. Collections and Archives as Agents of Globalization. The Case of Brazilian Art in Latin American Collections in the United States. In: Art Beyond Art: Second International Symposium on Systemic Relations in Art, 1st ed. Porto Alegre, São Paulo: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, SESC, SP, 2020, v. 1, pp. 64-85.
• BUENO, Maria Lucia; SANT’ANNA, Denise Bernuzzi. “Paysages de l’alimentation et expériences gastronomiques.” Dossier: Alimentation et Gastronomie BRÉSIL(S) – SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, v. 1, pp. 1-
  7, 2020.

Raquel Quinet de Andrade Pifano

She is a Professor of Art History and Criticism at the Institute of Arts and Design (IAD/UJFF) and a permanent faculty member of the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

She is a member of the Brazilian Committee for Art History (CBHA), an association that brings together art historians in Brazil and is affiliated with the International Committee of Art History (CIHA). She coordinates the research group “The Visual Arts Collection of the Murilo Mendes Museum.”

She holds a degree in “Full Licentiate in Art Education” from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She earned her Master’s in “Social History of Culture” from the Postgraduate Program in History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro with the thesis “Tradition and Contradiction in the Work of Aleijadinho”. She obtained her Ph.D. in “Art History and Criticism” from the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts
at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she defended the thesis “The Art of Painting: Humanist and Tridentine Prescriptions in Colonial Minas Gerais Painting.”

Her research focuses on topics related to colonial art in Brazil, especially in Minas Gerais, and the theory of Portuguese art produced during the period of Portuguese colonization of the territory that would later form the Brazilian nation. She also studies modernist art criticism, particularly the analysis of what is called the “Baroque of Minas Gerais,” a key point in the period’s discourses on national artistic identity and Brazilian
culture. As a continuation of her reflection on modernist art criticism, she investigates the activity of the poet Murilo Mendes as an art critic and collector, a contemporary and interlocutor of Mário de Andrade and Mário Pedrosa, among other critics and modern artists.

Email: raquinet.rqp@gmail.com

Renata Zago

She is a Professor of Art History at the Institute of Arts and Design and a permanent faculty member of the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Campinas (both licentiate and bachelor’s), a Master’s in Arts, and a Ph.D. in Visual Arts, both in the research line Theoretical Foundations of the Arts, defended at the Institute of Arts of Unicamp in 2007 and 2013, respectively. She was a fellow of the National Postdoctoral Program of Capes at the PPGACL at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.

She has experience in the field of the Arts, with an emphasis on Art History, primarily working on the following themes: contemporary art history, visual arts in the 1960s-70s, contemporary art salons, and the São Paulo Biennials. She is interested in the field of the History of Art Exhibitions, with ongoing research on art salons, biennials, and seasonal exhibitions. She works with revisions of the narratives of art history from the perspective of the history of exhibitions and post-colonial discourses.

Email: renatamaiazago@gmail.com

CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA

Alessandra Souza Melett Brum

Professor in the Bachelor’s Program in Cinema and Audiovisual, the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages, and the International Master in Cinema Studies – IMACS at the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL) at the Institute of Arts and Design. She is also a collaborator in the Postgraduate Program in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora – MG.

She holds a degree in History from the Federal University of Ouro Preto/MG. She earned her Master’s and PhD degrees from the Multimeios Postgraduate Program at Unicamp. She completed her postdoctoral research at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 with a Capes fellowship.

Her areas of expertise include film history, film criticism, the history and historiography of cinema, creative processes, and narrative in cinema and audiovisual media. She is also a producer and director of both fiction and documentary films.

She coordinates the research group CPCine: History, Aesthetics, and Narratives in Cinema and Audiovisual, which developed the project Minas é Cinema!—funded by Fapemig, CNPq, and UFJF.

Author of the book Hiroshima Mon Amour e a recepção da crítica no Brasil (Annablume, 2014).

Co-editor, alongside Luís Alberto Melo and Sérgio Puccini, of the book Cinema em Juiz de Fora (UFJF Press, 2017).

Projects:

• Minas é Cinema!
• Audiovisual Historiography of Cinema in Brazil

Outreach Programs:

• Cineclube Movimento
• Cinema em Foco
• From the Museum to the University

Research Group:
CPCine: History, Aesthetics, and Narratives in Cinema and Audiovisual

Email: alessandra.brum@ufjf.br

Carlos P. Reyna

Since 2024, Carlos P. Reyna has been a professor in the Cinema and Audiovisual research area of the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL) at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

He holds a degree in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional del Centro del Peru, a Master’s in Multimeios (Cinema) from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (1997), a PhD in Multimeios (Cinema) from UNICAMP (2003), and a Postdoctoral degree from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) (2005).

He is also a Collaborating Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences (PPGCSo) at UFJF, within the research area “Culture, Symbolic Processes, and Social Practices.”

In the field of Cinema and Audiovisual, his research delves into the territories of Documentary, Film Analysis, Film Theory, and Media Studies. He also explores the intersections between Cinema, Photography, and the Social Sciences, focusing on Anthropology, Sociology, Religion, Memory, and Oral History. In these areas, he uses cinema both as a tool (Jean Rouch; Claudine de France; M. Piault) and as an object of
study (P. Sorlin; J. P. Meyer; I. C. Jarvie; M. Foucault).

Recently, his work has extended into topics related to Virtual Cultures in Cyberspace.

He coordinates the Visual Anthropology and Documentary Laboratory (LAVIDOC), funded by FAPEMIG.

He is the director of several documentaries, including:

• Conversas na Candinha (2024) – editing
• Zé Carreiro, a Padroeira e o Congado (2018)
• O Exú no Reino de Ogum (2013)
• O Santo Reis em Ibaté (2005)
• O Ritual Andino Santiago (2003)

He is the author of thematic dossiers such as:
 Anthropology of Cinema (2017)
 Interpreting Visual Ethnography: Images and the Construction of Anthropological Meanings (2020)
 Autoethnographies: (In)visibilities, Reflexivities, and Interactions Between “Selves” and “Others” (2022)

Email: carlos.reyna@ufjf.br

Christian Pelegrini
Christian Hugo Pelegrini is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He holds a PhD in Audiovisual Studies from the University of São Paulo (EAC-USP). He earned a degree in Radio and Television from UNESP in Bauru, a specialization in Communication Theories and Techniques from Fundação Cásper Líbero, and a Master’s degree in History of Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

He is co-coordinator of the research group EnTelas and a member of the research groups GeLiDis and GeIFec (both at USP).

He has published articles in journals such as C-Legenda (UFF), Palabra Clave (Colombia), Cuadernos de Música, Artes Escénicas y Artes Visuales (Colombia), Frame (Spain), Significação (ECA-USP), Contracampo (UFF), Famecos (PUC-RS), and Géminis (UFSCar), as well as chapters in books in the fields of Communication and Culture.

He is the co-editor (with Felipe Muanis) of the book Perspectives on Contemporary Audiovisual Media: urgencies, contents, and spaces. He serves as a reviewer for Compós and for several leading academic journals.

He is also a faculty member of the international network IMACS (International Master in Cinema Studies).

The most frequent themes in his academic, technological, and cultural work include:
Audiovisual Enunciation, Transmedia Narratology, TV, Cinema, Serial Narratives, Sitcoms, Comedy, History of Cinema, and History of Television.

Email: christian.pelegrini@ufjf.br

Eliska Altmann
Researcher and professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences (IFCS/UFRJ), at the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL), and at the IMACS – International Master in Cinema Studies (UFJF).

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (IFCS/UFRJ), a master’s degree in Communication and Culture (ECO/UFRJ), and a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA/UFRJ), with a research exchange at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM, Mexico), under the supervision of Néstor García Canclini.

She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo – ECA/USP.

She coordinates GRUA – Group for the Recognition of Artistic/Audiovisual Universes (CNPq / GRUA).

She leads the project CineCríticos – a sociological cartography of the field of film criticism in four countries: Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico.

She is co-director of the film From the Clouds Down (Das nuvens pra baixo).

Author of the book The Brazil Imagined in Latin America – the film criticism of Glauber Rocha and Walter Salles, and of several articles on the following themes: reception theory, cultural movements, cinema and media, representation, film criticism, and Latin America.

She is the editor of the book collection Cinema em livro, published by 7Letras.

She contributed as an essayist to Curta Circuito – Permanent Film Showcase (Belo Horizonte, MG) in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Email: eliskaaltmann@gmail.com

Felipe Muanis
Associate Professor at the Institute of Arts and Design in the Cinema and Audiovisual Program and the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where he coordinates ENTELAS, a research group focused on transmedia content, cultural convergence, and screens.

He holds a PhD in Social Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with a research exchange at Bauhaus Universität-Weimar, Germany, funded by DAAD/Capes.

A journalist by training, he holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, conducting research on documentary comics.

He was a visiting professor at Universität Paderborn (2010) and at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2015–16), where he also taught courses for the IMACS – International Master in Cinema Studies, a program he helped implement at PPGACL-UFJF. He also taught in Portugal between 2022 and 2024. He has worked as an illustrator and art director and is a member of SIB, the Brazilian Society of Illustrators.

He is the author of the books Audiovisual Convergences: Languages and Devices (2020), The Televisual Image: Self-reference, Temporality, and Immersion (2018), and Audiovisual and Globalization: Television and
Cinema (2014).

His research interests include: image theory, memory and testimony in documentary images, art direction, new media, language, spectatorship, and reception.

Email: felipe.muanis@ufjf.br

Lúcio Reis Filho
Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL) at the Institute of Arts and Design of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (IAD/UFJF).

He holds a PhD in Communication from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (UAM), a Master’s degree in the same field from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Facom/UFJF), and a postgraduate specialization in Classical Studies from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Brasília (UNESCO Chair/UnB). He also holds undergraduate degrees in History from the State University of Minas Gerais and in Visual Arts from Centro Universitário Claretiano.

His work focuses on the relationship between cinema and history, as well as cinema’s intersections with literature and the arts in general, particularly exploring the visual and sonic dimensions of film production with emphasis on its proposals, processes, and reverberations. His research areas include: film history, film analysis, adaptation theory, and the horror genre. He also engages in studies on visual arts, comparative literature,
narratology, and gothic studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.

He is the author of Lovecraft and the Esoteric Traditions: Influences of Cosmic Horror on Occultism (Via Sestra, 2022) and editor of David Bowie: The Man Who Fell on Screen (Genio Editorial, 2020). He has published numerous articles, entries, and book chapters both in Brazil and internationally, in addition to short stories and fiction works.

He wrote the script for the experimental short film Chiaroscuro (2021), funded by the Aldir Blanc Law (14.017/2020), and co-directed and scripted the documentary Lambari – Land of Waters (2020), also supported by the same law. Through the Cinema in School project, developed with public school students, he directed the horror short Class Is Over, which premiered in France in 2021 and has been screened at various festivals
since.

Email: lucioreisfilho@gmail.com

Luís Alberto Rocha Melo
Luís Alberto Rocha Melo is a filmmaker and professor in the Bachelor’s in Cinema and Audiovisual program, the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages, and the International Master in Cinema Studies (IMACS) at the Institute of Arts and Design of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (IAD/UFJF).

He holds a Master’s and a Doctorate in Communication from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). He is currently developing the research Historiografia Audiovisual do Cinema no Brasil, funded by CNPq and Fapemig, through the research group Historiografia Audiovisual, which he leads.

His work focuses on the history and historiography of Brazilian cinema, cinematic direction, and the processes of creation and production in independent cinema.

He directed the feature films Um homem e seu pecado (2016), Nenhuma fórmula para a contemporânea visão do mundo(2012), and Legião estrangeira (2011); the medium-length documentary O Galante rei da Boca (2004); the fictional shorts Cinebiogravura (2017) and Que cavação é essa? (2008), as well as experimental video essays produced since 1989.

He is one of the authors of the two-volume book Nova História do cinema brasileiro, organized by Sheila Schvarzman and Fernão Ramos (SESC: 2018), and co-organizer, together with Alessandra Brum and Sérgio Puccini, of Cinema em Juiz de Fora (UFJF: 2017).

He is the author of several book chapters and articles published in Brazil and abroad.

Luiz Carlos Oliveira Jr.
Professor in the Cinema and Audiovisual course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), as well as in the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL) and the International Master in Cinema Studies (IMACS) at IAD/UFJF.

He is also a collaborator professor in the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Department of Fine Arts at ECA-USP.

He holds a degree in cinema from the Fluminense Federal University and completed his Master’s and Doctorate in the Postgraduate Program in Audiovisual Media and Processes at the University of São Paulo, with a sandwich scholarship period at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of São Paulo.

His focus is on the areas of film history, theory, and criticism, with an emphasis on cinematic aesthetics and its relationship with the history of artistic forms, particularly painting. The most discussed themes in his research are: cinematic mise-en-scène, film analysis, the history of portraiture, the aesthetic hermeneutics of contemporary cinema, and the relationship between image and word.

He worked as a film critic for the magazine Contracampo between 2002 and 2011 and has contributed to magazines such as Cult, Bravo!, seLecT, and Cinética, in addition to having texts published in the Ilustrada and Ilustríssima sections of Folha de S. Paulo.

He is the author of the book A mise en scène no cinema: do clássico ao cinema de fluxo (Papirus, 2013). He has written numerous articles for catalogs and book chapters in Brazil and abroad.

He was the curator of the film exhibitions Vincente Minnelli – Cinema de Música e Drama (CCBB-RJ and SP, 2011) and Jacques Rivette – Já Não Somos Inocentes (CCBB-RJ and SP, 2013).

He wrote and directed the short film O dia em que não matei Bertrand (2008), adapted from the short story of the same name by Sérgio Sant’Anna.

e-mail: luizcarlosoliveira@ufjf.br

Sérgio José Puccini Soares
Adjunct professor in the Bachelor’s in Cinema and Audiovisual, the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages at the Institute of Arts and Design of UFJF, and the International Master in Cinema Studies – IMACS/PPGACL.

He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the State University of Campinas, a Master’s, and a PhD in Multimedia from the State University of Campinas. He completed a post-doctorate at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, with a FAPEMIG scholarship.

He has experience in the fields of Cinema and Arts, with an emphasis on Screenwriting, Dramaturgy, Documentary, and Sound in Cinema.

He is the author of the books Amanhã. Aqui. Nesse mesmo lugar (Javali, 2008) and Roteiro de Documentário: da pré-produção à pós-produção (Editora Papirus 2009), also published in Argentina in 2015 by La Marca Editora under the title Guión de documentales: De la preproducción a la posproducción.

e-mail: sergio.puccini@ufjf.br

MUSIC AND SOUND ARTS

Fernando Vago

Pianist, piano professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2017.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Piano from the Faculty of Music of Espírito Santo (2011), a Master’s in Piano from the University of Kentucky (MM, 2014), and a Doctorate in Music from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (2017).

Winner of competitions such as Edna Bassetti Habith (2010), Souza Lima (2011), and Arnaldo Estrella (2014).

Awarded the Nathaniel Patch Award (2013) and the MTNA Young Artist Competition (2012/2013).

Member of the research group TeclaMinas.

He performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator, with a particular interest in topics related to Piano Performance, Literature and Pedagogy, Technique, and Pianistic Interpretation.

e-mail: fernando.vago@ufjf.br

Heloísa de A. Duarte Valente 
Master’s and PhD in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), with post-doctoral studies in Cinema, Radio, and Television (School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo).

Full professor at the Media and Communication Culture Program at Universidade Paulista – UNIP, with main research areas in musical semiotics and interdisciplinary studies in the fields of music, communication, and the semiotics of culture and media.

She has published a dozen books.

Founder of the Center for Music and Media Studies – MusiMid and editor-in-chief of the Revista Brasileira de Estudos em Música e Mídia.

e-mail: musimid@gmail.com

Henrique Vaz
He holds a degree in Music, a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and a PhD in Composition and Musical Interpretation. Henrique Vaz coordinates the research group “Gambioluteria – from object-oriented programming to makeshift solutions and post-digital luthiery carving,” focused on the pathways of "creative coding" pedagogy through the lens of algorithms in acoustic, electronic, digital, and cultural designs of
instruments, both analytical and those leading to tangible aural artifacts for musical expression.

Through the endeavors and guidance conducted at the Studio of the Institute of Arts and Design at UFJF, he led laboratories on “computational simulation and modeling,” “analog synthesis in modular systems,” “listening designs, sound physiologies, and computerized neuromusicology,” “integrated recording cultures, audio engineering, and studio practices,” and on the interactivity and iterativity of audiovisual paradigms in the
light of “cognitive computing,” supported by interfaces and “multimodal creation.”

He advocates for collaborative creation methods that prioritize decentralized manufacturing systems where consumption and creation of products, goods, and services arise through collective practices.

His work focuses on “technological education,” the sociotechnical impact of digital information, the legal statutes and politicization of technologies, their “accessibility,” and the crisis of the subject of law and the reconfigurations of the “human” under the regimes of “virtualization of biodiversity” and “algorithmic-genetic colonization.”

As a “performer,” he uses “gambiology” as a gesture of resistance, whether in luthiery, as a bodily ethic, or in the writing of compositional times and spaces. The “medium”—beyond acoustic images—, the “creative operation,” the “agent,” and its “ontological difference” are part of the mapping of his interests.

As a composer, he investigates the “notational paradigm” at the crossroads of: inferential modeling (AI/machine learning) and modes of musical representation, notation and data visualization, non-visual notation systems (aural/haptic), and interactive systems, writings and scripts in their historical and aesthetic keys.

e-mail: henrique.maia.vaz@ufjf.br

Luiz Castelões
Composer, professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2009, and postdoctoral researcher at Integra Lab (Birmingham Conservatoire, England) in 2015-16.

He holds degrees from Boston University (DMA, 2009) and UNIRIO (Master’s, 2004; Bachelor’s, 2001).

As a composer, he has received awards such as 1st Place in the International Composition Contest of the Hermes Music Foundation & Amsonia New York City (2023), 3rd Place in the MAP – International Music Competition (Los Angeles, 2023), 3rd Place in the Amadeus Composition Competition (Vienna, 2023), 1st prize and selected composer at the XIV and XXIV Biennials of Contemporary Brazilian Music (2001 and 2021), as well as being a semifinalist in the Radio MEC Festival (2020),  composer awarded by Ibermúsicas (2015) and honorable mention in the UFRJ School of Music Award (2012).

Recent performances and recordings of his music have taken place in over a dozen countries, by pianists such as Milica Lawrence (Malta, 2023), Aki Fujii (Japan, 2020-22), and Donald Berman (USA, 2021), and by chamber groups such as the Aulos Flute Ensemble (Iceland, 2021-23), East Chamber Music (Canada, 2022), Roadrunner Trio (Netherlands, 2020), Ensemble Linea (France, 2019), Aleph Gitarrenquartett (Spain,
2019), Ecce Ensemble (France, 2018), Ensemble Mise-En (South Korea, 2017-18), Quartetto Maurice (Italy, 2014-16), and Mivos Quartet (Spain, 2015).

Recent articles and chapters have been published in OM Composer’s Book Vol. 3 (France, 2016), Sonic Ideas (Mexico, 2015), El oído pensante (Argentina, 2013), and IRASM – International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (Croatia, 2009).

His main research interests include: Musical Composition (with an emphasis on algorithmic composition), Music and Interdisciplinarity, and Brazilian Popular Music.

e-mail: luiz.casteloes@ufjf.br

Marta Castello Branco
She holds a degree in Music from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2005), a master’s degree in Music from the Federal University of Bahia (2008), and a doctorate in Music from Universität der Künste Berlin (2014).
Since 2014, she has been a professor at the School of Music of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).
She has experience in the Arts, with an emphasis on Music, primarily focusing on the following topics: musical performance (flute) and the relationships between music, culture, and society.

e-mail: martacastellobranco@yahoo.com.br

Mayra Pereira
Professor at the Department of Music at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, she holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from UNIRIO, a master’s degree in Harpsichord from UFRJ (2005), a bachelor’s degree in Harpsichord from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (2008), and a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from UFJF (2003).

She coordinates the Laboratory of Historically Informed Performance (LaPHI) and the Interdisciplinary Study Group in Musicology and Historically Informed Performance (NEIMPHI), both at UFJF.

She is the author of the books Do Cravo ao Pianoforte no Rio de Janeiro – panorama de suas histórias e características até 1830 (2015) and O Cravo no Rio de Janeiro do século XX (2020).

Research interests: Historical Musicology, Organology, Historically Informed Performance, and Interpretative Practices on Harpsichord and Organ.

e-mail: mayra.pereira@ufjf.br

Rafael Moreira Fortes
Composer, Saxophonist, and Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2023. He was an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Piauí from 2018 to 2023.

As a researcher, he has a special interest in music theory in a broad sense, with a focus on the development and research of analytical methodologies related to musical cognition and the study of its philosophical, historical, and epistemological conditions.

He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from UNIRIO (2016–2020), with a thesis titled “A Estrutura Orgânica da Música na Teoria Schenkeriana” (The Organic Structure of Music in Schenkerian Theory). He earned a Master’s in Music in the area of poetics of musical creation from UFRJ (2014–2016), with a thesis titled “Modelagem e Particionamento de Unidades Musicais Sistêmicas” (Modeling and Partitioning of Systemic Musical Units).

He graduated in Music with a specialization in Composition from UNIRIO (2010–2013) and studied Saxophone at UFRJ (2008–2009).

As a composer, his works have been performed in international concerts and in various regions of Brazil, such as the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS), the University of Aveiro, the Cecília Meireles Hall, and Ibrasotope, as well as in events like the Panorama Música Brasileira Atual at UFRJ and the National Meeting of University Composers (ENCUN). His compositions include electroacoustic works, chamber music,
solo instruments, wind ensemble, works for actors’ voices, among others. He has a special interest in improvisation strategies and interactions with other media, such as Video-Music and scenic compositions.

As an instrumentalist, he has worked with the trio Lanca, focusing on non-idiomatic improvisation strategies, with which he released the CD Roda (2017); and with the Quinteto Serra Brasilis, and the quartets Monduá and Tapuia, focusing on Brazilian instrumental popular music. Currently, he is involved in several projects as an improviser in the instrumental and experimental music scene of Juiz de Fora

e-mail: rafael.fortes@ufjf.br

Raquel Rohr
Cellist and professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2022.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree (2006), Master’s (2011), and Ph.D. (2017) in Music from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She currently coordinates the Academic Orchestra of UFJF.

Her research interests include: Performance and pedagogy of the cello and bowed string instruments, Brazilian Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Entrepreneurship, and Creative Economy.

e-mail: raquel.rohr@ufjf.br

Visiting Professor/Researcher

Prof. Dr. Éric Zavenne Paré (Professor)
Home Institution: State University of Rio de Janeiro
Period: 03/11/2019 to 02/16/2020

Profª. Drª. Glaucia Kruse Villas Bôas (Professor)
Home Institution: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Period: 08/15/2018 to 02/15/2019

Profª. Drª. Paula Maria Guerra Tavares (Professor)
Home Institution: University of Porto
PeriodO: 02/01/2018 to 06/08/2018

Profª. Drª. Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva (Researcher)
Home Institution: University College London
Period: 11/05/2018 to 11/19/2018