Dr. Maite Conde

Biography

Maite Conde’s research focuses on Brazilian culture with a particular emphasis on cinema. Her work engages with questions regarding the relationship between cinema and literature in a modern Brazil. Conde has conducted a sustained examination of the theoretical debates surrounding film and literary modernism from the early 1900s, as well as discussions of cinema and modernity during Brazil’s Republic. Her notable publications include "Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing Modernity in Rio de Janeiro" (Virginia University Press, 2012), awarded the Andrew Mellon/MLA Award, and "Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil" (University of California Press, 2018), which received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for outstanding work in the field of Latin American Spanish Literatures and Cultures. Currently, she is completing a book on the cultural revolutions of 1922 in Brazil, highlighting innovations in architecture, music, fashion, and literature. Additionally, Conde is active in translating and editing influential works in Brazilian social and cultural theory, aiming to bridge these critical discussions with an Anglo-American audience. She has taught at institutions like Oxford University, King’s College London, and Columbia University, and has received multiple research fellowships throughout her career.

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