Dr. Maite Conde

Biography

Maite Conde’s research focuses on Brazilian culture with a particular emphasis on cinema. Her work engages questions about the relationship between cinema and literature in the context of modernity in Brazil. She has conducted sustained examinations of theoretical debates and has fostered a productive dialogue between film and literary modernism from the early 1900s. Currently, she is completing a book that explores the year 1922 in Brazil, a pivotal moment for Brazilian culture. Her previous book, 'Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, Modernity in Rio de Janeiro' (Virginia University Press, 2012), examines the relationship between cinema and literature in early twentieth-century Brazil, particularly how this new medium of film was integrated into literary society during modernization. This work has been recognized with the Andrew Mellon/MLA award. Additionally, she authored 'Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil' (University of California Press, 2018), which won the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association for outstanding work in the field of Latin American studies. Her ongoing projects include a collaboration on a book titled 'Brazil 1922: Year of Cultural Revolutions', and she has edited or contributed to several volumes focusing on Brazilian cinema and cultural theory.

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