#  Beatriz Jaguaribe de Mattos 

 

 



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 Beatriz Jaguaribe has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Since 1994, she has been a professor at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She was a visiting professor at Princeton, The New School for Social Research, New York University, Stanford University, among other academic institutions. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Andrés Bello Chair (NYU), an ICAS fellowship (NYU) and is a researcher at the CNPq in Brazil. Her areas of academic expertise are comparative literature, media studies and urban culture. Among her publications feature the books, *Fins de século: cidade e cultura no Rio de Janeiro* (1998), *Mapa do maravilhoso* ( 2001), *O choque do real* (2007), *Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City* (2014). She is currently finishing a research project on the photographic and cartographic endeavors and imaginaries of the Rondon Commission in Brazil. She is also engaged in a comparative research project of Brazilian and Andean photographic archives centered on the theme of the “inventions of the self and others.” She will teach a course in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures during the spring 2020 semester.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Academic Year
    
     [2019-2020](/academic-year/2019-2020)
- ## Location
    
     [Cambridge](/locations/cambridge-office)
- ## People
    
     [Visiting Scholar](/people/visiting-scholar)
- ## Scholars/Fellows
    
     [Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor](/scholarsfellows/robert-f-kennedy-visiting-professor)