Faculty
ART, FASHION: HISTORY AND CULTURE
Elisabeth Murilho, PhD – Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Elisabeth has a degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1993), a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1996) and a PhD 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 area of Urban Anthropology and Sociology, with an emphasis on Sociology of Fashion and Sociology of Youth, working mainly on the following topics: youth culture, gender constructions, feminism and racism related to appearance and fashion; 1980s and its ramifications
Maria Claudia Bonadio, PhD – State University of Campinas
Graduation, Master’s and PhD in History from Unicamp. She did a post-doctoral internship at Museu Paulista (USP). Professor of the Fashion course and PPGACL at UFJF.
Author of the books “Fashion and sociability: women and consumption in São Paulo in the 1920s” (2007) and “Fashion and advertising in Brazil in the 1960s” (2014) and organizer of the books “Fashion History and Culture” (2011) and “Stories of men’s dress” (2017).
She has articles published in national and international journals such as Fashion Theory; International Journal of Fashion Studies; Film, Fashion & Consumption. She is the author of the entry “Consumerism and Advertising in 20th-Century Brazil” published in Oxford Press’s Encyclopedia of Latin American History.
She is the leader of the Fashion History and Culture Research Group.
Since 2015, she has been the editor of the magazine dObra[s]: of the Associação de Estudos e Pesquisas em Moda. Project coordinator of @historiadamoda.ufjf on Instagram.
Her main research interests are focused on the study of fashion and dressing 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.
Maria Lucia Bueno Ramos, PhD – State University of Campinas
Graduation and Masters in Social Sciences (PUC-SP). PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP).
She did several postdoctoral internships: Instituto de Artes da Unicamp/FAPESP, École des Hautes Études in Science Sociales/EHESS and Université Paris Est/FAPESP.
She was a guest professor at the Institut d’études européennes, Université Paris 8 (2015-16) and at the sociology department of the New School for Social Research (New York, 2016), both funded by Capes.
She also did a senior research internship in 2019 at CRBC- École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales, Paris.
She is the coordinator of the Sociology of Art working group at the Congresses of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (SBS).
She has experience in the areas of sociology of culture and art and social history, with an emphasis on the following topics: Artists, Institutions and the Market; Collections, Exhibitions and Museums; production and circulation of culture and the arts; Brazilian Culture and Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; Artistic and cultural work: Consumption and lifestyles; Genre; Aestheticization of everyday life; Gastronomy; Fashion; Design; Urban Culture; Cultural Industry; Modernity; Globalization.
Research group: Aesthetics, Consumption and Globalization: Transformations in the Worlds of the Arts. Visual arts, architecture, design, fashion and gastronomy. Research coordinator (leader)
Research project: Collections, museums and exhibitions: consecration and globalization in the world of modern and contemporary art. Brazilian art and Latin American art as case studies.
Aesthetics, consumer society and globalization. A study of the interactions between the worlds of art 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.
Raquel Quinet, PhD – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
She is a professor of History and Art Criticism at the Institute of Arts and Design (IAD/UJFF) and permanent professor at 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 of Art History (CBHA), an association that brings together art historians in Brazil and which is a member of the International Committee d’Histoire de l’art (CIHA). She coordinates the research group “The Visual Arts Collection of the Murilo Mendes Museum of Art”.
She has a degree in “Art Education” from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Master’s degree in “Social History of Culture” from the Postgraduate Program in History of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro with the dissertation “Tradition and Contradiction in the work of Aleijadinho”. PhD in “History and Criticism of Art” by the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro, where he defended the thesis “Art of Painting: Humanist and Tridentine Prescriptions in Colonial Paintings from Minas Gerais”.
She researches themes related to colonial art in Brazil, especially in Minas, and the theory of Portuguese art produced during the period of Portuguese colonization of the territory that would become a Brazilian nation.
She also studies modernist art criticism, based on her analysis of the so-called “mineiro baroque”, a fundamental point of the period’s discourses on national artistic identity and Brazilian culture. As an offshoot of the reflection on modernist art criticism, she researches the art critic and collector activity of the poet Murilo Mendes, a contemporary and interlocutor of Mario de Andrade and Mario Pedrosa, among other modern critics and artists.
Renata Zago, PhD – State University of Campinas
Professor of Art History at the Institute of Arts and Design and permanent professor at the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture and Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).
She has a degree in Fine Arts from the State University of Campinas, Master’s in Arts and PhD in Visual Arts, both in the Theoretical Foundations of Arts research line, defended at Unicamp’s Institute of Arts in 2007 and 2013, respectively. She was a fellow of the Capes National Postdoctoral Program at PPGACL at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.
She has experience in the field of Arts, with an emphasis on Art History, working mainly on the following subjects: History of contemporary art, Fine arts in the 1960s-70s, Contemporary Art Salons and 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 art history narratives from the history of exhibitions and post-
colonial discourses.
CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA
Alessandra Brum, PhD – State University of Campinas
Professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual course; the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture and Languages; the International Master in Cinema Studies – IMACS at PPG-ACL , at the Institute of Arts and Design and collaborator in the Postgraduate Program in History at the Federal University from Juiz de Fora – MG.
She has a degree in History from the Federal University of Ouro Preto/MG. Maste’s and PhD by the Postgraduate Program in Multimedia at Unicamp. She did a postdoctoral internship at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 with a Capes scholarship.
She works in the areas of film history, film criticism, film history and historiography, creation process and narratives in film and audiovisual. She is a producer and director of fictional films and documentaries.
She coordinates the CPCine Research Group: history, aesthetics and narratives in cinema and audiovisual, which develops the Minas é Cinema! This project was funded by Fapemig, CNPq and UFJF.
Author of the book Hiroshima Mon Amour and The Critical Reception in Brazil (Annablume, 2014).
Co-organizer, with Luís Alberto Melo and Sérgio Puccini, of the book Cinema in Juiz de Fora (UFJF Editor, 2017).
Christian Pelegrini, PhD – Federal University of São Paulo
Christian Hugo Pelegrini is Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). PhD in Audiovisual from the University of São Paulo (EAC-USP). He holds a degree in Radio and TV from UNESP in Bauru, a Specialist in Communication Theories and Techniques from Fundação Cásper Líbero and a Master’s in Science History from PUC in São Paulo.
He is co-coordinator of the research group EnTelas and a member of the research groups GeLiDis and GeIFec (both from USP).
He has published articles in magazines such as C-Legenda (UFF), Palabra Clave (Colombia), Cuadernos de Musica, Artes Scenic and Visual Arts (Colombia), Frame (Spain), Significação (ECA-USP), Contracampo (UFF), Famecos ( PUC-RS) and Geminis (UFSCar), as well as chapters in books in the area of Communication and Culture.
He is the organizer (together with Felipe Muanis) of the book Perspectives of Contemporary Audiovisual: Urgencies, Contents and Spaces. He is a reviewer for Compós and for numerous qualified journals.
He is a professor at IMACS (International Master in Cinema Studies).
The most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and cultural production are: Audiovisual Enunciation, Transmedia Narratology, TV, Cinema, Serial Narratives, Sitcom, Comedy, History of Cinema, History of TV.
Felipe Muanis, PhD – Federal University of Minas Gerais
Associate Professor at the Institute of Arts and Design in the Cinema and Audiovisual Course and at the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture and Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where he coordinates ENTELAS, a research group on transmedia content, convergence of cultures and screens.
He is also a collaborating professor at the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Ceará.
PhD in Social Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, with a scholarship at the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar, Germany, financed by DAAD/Capes.
As a journalist, he has a degree and a master’s degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Postdoctoral fellow at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, with research in documentary comics.
He was visiting professor at Universität Paderborn (2010) and at the Institut für Medienwissenschaft at Ruhr Universität Bochum (2015-16), both in Germany, in the last one, teaching courses at IMACS – International Master in Cinema Studies, which he also coordinates at PPGACL-UFJF.
He has worked as an illustrator and art director and he is an associate of SIB, Sociedade dos Ilustradores do Brasil.
He has experience in the area of Applied Social Sciences, with an emphasis on Communication, working mainly on the following subjects: television, comics, image, cinema, new media, language, spectatorship and reception.
He is the author of the books Audiovisual Convergences: languages and devices (2020), The television image: self-reference, temporality and immersion (2018) and Audiovisual and Globalization: television and cinema (2014).
Luís Alberto Rocha Melo, PhD – Fluminense Federal University
Luís Alberto Rocha Melo is a filmmaker and professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual Course; PPG in Arts, Culture and Languages and of the International Master in Cinema Studies (IMACS), at IAD/UFJF.
Master and PhD in Communication from UFF. He is currently developing research on audiovisual historiography of cinema in Brazil, financed by CNPq and Fapemig, through the research group Audiovisual Historiography, of which he is the leader.
He works with the history and historiography of Brazilian cinema; film direction; creative and production processes in independent cinema.
He directed the feature films Um homem e seu pecado (2016), Nenhuma fórmula para a contemporânea visão do mundo (2012), Legião estrangeira (2011); O Galante rei da Boca (2004); Cinebiogravura (2017) and Que cavação é essa? (2008), in addition to 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 Junior, PhD – University of São Paulo
Professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual Course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), as well as the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture and Languages (PPGACL) and the International Master in Cinema Studies (IMACS), at IAD/UFJF .
He is also a collaborating professor at the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Department of Plastic Arts at ECA-USP.
He has a degree in cinema from Universidade Federal Fluminense and has a master’s degree and a Phd in the Postgraduate Program in Audiovisual Media and Processes at the University of São Paulo, with a scholarship at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. Plastic Arts at the University of São Paulo.
He focuses on the areas of cinema history, theory and criticism, with an emphasis on cinematographic aesthetics and its relationship to the history of art forms, especially painting. The most discussed topics in his research are: cinematographic mise-en-scène, film analysis, portrait history, aesthetic hermeneutics of contemporary cinema, the relationship between image and word.
He worked as a film critic for the magazine Contracampo between 2002 and 2011 and has already collaborated for the magazines 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: from classic to flow cinema (Papirus, 2013). Author of several articles for catalogs and book chapters in Brazil and abroad.
He was the curator of the film shows “Vincente Minnelli – Cinema of Music and Drama” (CCBB-RJ and SP, 2011) and “Jacques Rivette – Não Somos Inocentes” (CCBB-RJ and SP, 2013).
He wrote and directed the short film The day I didn’t kill Bertrand (2008), adapted from the homonymous short story by Sérgio Sant’Anna.
Patricia Ferreira Moreno Christofoletti, PhD – Fluminense Federal University
She has a PhD in History from the Fluminense Federal University (2011) and a master’s degree in History from the same institution (2000), both dealing with the new Latin American cinemas of the 1970s. She graduated in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1997).
She researches the artistic manifestations that use the moving image as a support (super 8, 16mm, 35mm and videos), with an emphasis on Artist Films in the 1970s and the beginnings of video art in Brazil.
She is currently developing research projects centered on two thematic fronts: the art exhibition spaces and their ways of exposing the moving image, with the title “Cinema Museum: Processes of musealization of moving images” and another focused on the main exhibitions of women artists who work with the moving image entitled “From Minas to Gerais: main exhibitions of films by women artists in MG”.
She is a professor at the Department of Arts and Design at the Institute of Arts and Design (IAD) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and since 2019 she is a collaborating professor at the IMACS – International Master in Cinema Studies, linked to the Ruhr University- Universität Bochum, Germany.
Sérgio José Puccini PhD – State University of Campinas
Adjunct Professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual course, of the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture and Languages of the Institute of Arts and Design of UFJF and of the International Master in Cinema Studies – IMACS/PPGACL.
He has a degree in Fine Arts from the State University of Campinas, a master’s and PhD in Multimedia from the State University of Campinas. Post-doctorate at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, financed by FAPEMIG.
He has experience in the field 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 .
Theresa Medeiros, PhD – Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Adjunct professor of the Communication course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora – FACOM/UFJF, permanent professor of the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture and Languages – PPGACL/UFJF and of the IMACS – International Master in Cinema Studies.
PhD in Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, she is currently a member of the Research Group on Transmedia Content, Convergence of Cultures and Screens – IAD/UFJF and of the Research Group on Communication, City and Memory – UFJF/CNPq.
She develops research in cinema and audiovisual, especially in investigations into creative processes; art direction; memory and nostalgia.
ARTS AND MUSIC POETICS
Fabrício Carvalho, PhD – Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Fabrício Carvalho works as an artist and professor at the Institute of Arts and Design – UFJF.
He has a degree in Arts Education with specialization in Fine Arts and Degree in Arts Education from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2005). Master in Visual Arts from the School of Fine Arts at UFRJ – Research Line: Visual Languages (2009). PhD in Education from PPGE/UFJF (2015), Research Line: Language and Teacher Training.
He has experience in the field of experimentation, production and elaboration of projects in Visual Arts with a special interest in understanding art as a process of creation and formation in different contexts.
He has been working especially in the relationship between art and education, art and its institutions, art and writing processes.
Fernando Vago, PhD UniRio
Pianist, piano professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2017.
He has a degree in Piano from the University of Music, in Espírito Santo (2011), Master in Piano from the University of Kentucky (MM, 2014) and PhD in Music from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (2017).
Winner of contests 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 TeclaMinas research group.
He works as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborator, having a special interest in topics related to Piano Performance, Literature and Pedagogy, Technique and Pianistic Interpretation.
Luiz Eduardo Castelões PhD – Boston University
Composer, professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2009, and post-doc researcher at Integra Lab (Birmingham Conservatoire, England) in 2015-16.
Diplomas from Boston University (DMA, 2009) and UNIRIO (Master, 2004; Bachelor, 2001).
Highlights of awards, residencies, internships and scholarships include: Ibermúsicas (2015), Escola de Música da UFRJ (honorable mention, 2012), IRCAM (2011), CMMAS (2011), Boston University (2007), CAPES/Fulbright (2005- 09), Primeiro Plano Festival (Best Sound, 2003) and Funarte (Award of the XIV Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music, 2001).
Recent premieres of his music made by Ensemble Linea (France, 2019), Contemporary Music Basel (Switzerland, 2019), Aleph Gitarrenquartett (Spain, 2019), Ecce Ensemble (France, 2018), Ensemble Mise-En (Korea, 2018 and 2017) ), Maurice Quartetto (Italy, 2016 and 2014), Mivos Quartet (Spain, 2015) and Szlachta String Quintet (USA, 2015).
Recent articles and chapters 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), among others. Main research interests: Musical Composition and Analysis, Music Criticism and Brazilian Popular Music.
Marta Castello Branco, PhD – University of Art in Berlin
She has a degree in Music from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2005), a Maste’s in Music from the Federal University of Bahia (2008) and a PhD in Music – Universität der
Künste Berlin (2014).
Since 2014 she has been a professor at the School of Music at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).
She has experience in the field of Arts, with an emphasis on Music, working mainly on the following topics: musical interpretation (transverse flute) and relationships between music, culture and society.
Ricardo De Cristófaro, PhD – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Ricardo De Cristofaro is Associate Professor at the IAD Institute of Arts and Design at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.
He has been working as a visual artist since 1986, having held individual and group exhibitions in several cities in Brazil and abroad.
He works with teaching and research in the areas of sculpture, artistic techniques and technologies, photography and hybrid contemporary poetics.
He has a degree in Visual Arts from UFJF (1987); Master in Visual Arts (emphasis in Image Technologies) by UnB (1998) and PhD in Visual Arts (emphasis in Poetics) by UFRGS (2007).
In 2006 he did an internship at the ATI Arts et Technologies de l’Image Laboratory at Universite Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Denis, France. He coordinates the research group “Photography in hybrid processes in Contemporary Art”.
Rosane Preciosa Sequeira, PhD – Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Rosane Preciosa Sequeira is dedicated to research that crosses fields of knowledge, adopting minority perspectives. She is mainly interested in the ways of thinking-writing, dressing, imagining that could invent other territories of existence.