Curriculum
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2020 – on going
Ph.D. department Spanish and Portuguese
Currently GPA: 3,98 out of 4,0.
Advisor: Patrícia Lino, PhD.
MA Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil 2018 - 2020
Master of Arts in Literature, Society and History of the Literature
Final GPA: 9,71 out of 10.
Thesis title: Images of the Abyss: the misery of the poor from London and from Rio de Janeiro in the beginning of the twentieth.
Supervisor: Antônio Marcos Vieira Sanseverino, PhD.
BA Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil 2013 - 2018
English and Portuguese Language and Literature Teaching (summa cum laude)
Final GPA: 9,034 out of 10.
Final Paper Title: Flying Bottles and Emergency Lights: the portrait of The Northerner English youth of the first half of the 2000s through the album “Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not”.
Supervisor: Sandra Sirangelo Maggio, PhD
EMPLOYMENT
2024 – now Editor-in-Chief of Mester Journal
2023 – 2024 Teaching Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles
2022 – 2023 Teaching Associate at University of California, Los Angeles
2021 – 2022 Teaching Assistant at University of California, Los Angeles
2020 – now Graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles.
2018 – 2020 Federal researcher under the CAPES-PROEX scholarship (Academic Excellence Program).
2015 – 2017 Five semesters as Assistant to the Professor at UFRGS.
AWARDS
2024 Election as Editor-in-Chief of Mester Journal
2024 UCLA/ Keck Humanistic Inquiry Research Awards
2024 Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship
2024 Summer Teaching Assistantship, Spanish 1 at UCLA.
2023 Ph.D. Candidate, at UCLA.
2023 Teaching Fellow, at UCLA.
2023 Graduate Summer Researcher, UCLA.
2022 EPIC- Lang pedagogical grant, The Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms, UCLA.
2022 Graduate Summer Researcher, UCLA.
2022 Teaching Associate at University of California, Los Angeles.
2021 Teaching Assistantship at University of California, Los Angeles.
2020 Fellowship for PhD studies at University of California, Los Angeles.
2018 Capes-PROEX research scholarship (Academic Excellence Program).
2018 Honorable mention at short-stories contest “Festive and affective Memories”.
2018 Selected to be in the collectanea of “14º Mário Quintana Literary Contest”.
2018 Second place for short stories in the “14º Mário Quintana Literary Contest”.
2017 Teaching Assistant in Brazilian Literature C undergraduate course.
2017 Assistant to the Professor in Studies of Brazilian Author undergraduate course.
2016 Assistant to the Professor in Brazilian Literature B undergraduate course.
2016 Assistant to the Professor in Panorama of Brazilian Literature undergraduate course.
2015 Assistant to the Professor in Brazilian Literature B undergraduate course.
2012 First place in university entrance examination at Fapa - UniRitter Laureate International Universities.
MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD
2020 - now Editorial board member at UCLA's Mester journal.
2020 - 2021 Editor at Westwind UCLA literary magazine.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Lion in the winter”. Representações da Grã-Bretanha e da Irlanda no Cinema e na Literatura. (2024). Co-authored with: Dariva, B.
“The People of the Abyss: the obscure side of London society”. Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG). (2023). Co-authored with: Sanseverino, A.
“Variações sobre a Saudade: a dobra barroca enquanto ato de invenção". Federal University of Ceará. (2022). Co-authored with: Mayer, B. Web: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/entrelaces/article/view/78405
"Feiticeiros, fantasmas e ecos do passado: as manifestações do trauma em Harry Potter e na trilogia Simon Snow”. In: Aspecto do Romance de Fantasia. (2022) Co-authored with: Copetti, I. Web: https://repositorio.furg.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/10555/ROMANCEDEFANTASIA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
"Papéis Avulsos: O anel de Polícrates Teoria do Medalhão". Machado de Assis: ficção, criação e sociedade. (2022). Co-authored with: Lucena, J. Web: https://lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/263606/001175434.pdf
“The south of South America by Angélica Freitas". Revista Mester, UCLA. (2021) Web: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27p2p5jt
"Migração, exílio e fronteiras: a narrativa de Ruffato em Flores Artificiais”. Livro Fronteiras, migrações, representações. UFMA. (2021)
“The southern gothic: adaptation of the environment in different media”. Poetics and Internationalization. UFRGS. (2020) Co-authored with: Dariva, B. Web: https://www.ufrgs.br/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Poe%CC%81ticaseInternacionalizac%CC%A7a%CC%83o2020.pdf
“Who the f*** are Arctic Monkeys?". Revista Scriptorium, PUC Rio Grande do Sul. (2020) Co-authored with: Dariva, B. Web: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/scriptorium/article/view/36412
“"The middle-class of Machado de Assis. Caderno de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Mackenzie São Paulo. (2020) Web: https://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/cpgl/article/view/12778
"Um monstro de raíz: a presença da tradição no Monstro do Pântano, de Alan Moore". In: Figuração de personagens monstruosas: 1 ed. Rio de Janeiro: Dialogarts UERJ, p. 133-160. (2020). Co-authored with: Vidal, L.
"Migration, exile and borders: the narrative by Ruffato in Flores Artificiais". Revista Contraponto, Federal University of Piaui. (2020) Web: https://revistas.ufpi.br/index.php/contraponto/article/view/9953
"The verbalization of the undemocratic". Revista Opiniães, University of São Paulo. (2019) Web: https://www.revistas.usp.br/opiniaes/article/view/158486
"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not". In: Coloquiumm Mochileiros de Outros Mares 2018: Caderno de Resumos. 1ed. North Charleston: CreateSpace. v. 1 (2018)
"Flying Bottles and Emergency Lights: the portrait of the British youth of the '00 through the album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'. In:.Shakespeare & Friends Event Ufrgs. 1ed.North Charleston: CreateSpace, v. 1(2017) Co-authored with: Coppeti, I.
"The Olympics 2016". Revista Bem Legal, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. 176-182. (2016) Co-authored with: Horst, K.
Articles or reviews published in Magazines
"José Pereira Rego. História e descrição da febre amarela epidêmica que grassou no Rio de Janeiro em 1850. Posfácio de Sidney Chalhoub. São Paulo: Chão Editora, 2020. 352 p. Brasil/ Brazil, Brown University/ UFRGS. (2021) Web: https://www.seer.ufrgs.br/brasilbrazil/article/viw/117402
"O livro-poema-objecto-escultura de Ricardo Tiago Moura". eLyra, Universidade do Porto. (2021) Web: https://www.elyra.org/index.php/elyra/article/view/387
"Beyond the Best Seller: The Brilliance of Elena Ferrante".. Westwind Journal of Arts, UCLA (2021) Co-authored with: Zandomeneghi, R.. Web: https://www.westwinducla.com/post/beyond-the-best-seller-the-brilliance-of-elena-ferrante
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Carvalho, I. (2019). “Short Narratives: way of doing”. XX Extension Symposium. UFRGS. Web: https://lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/215510/Resumo_40904.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Carvalho, I. (2019). “Short Narratives: way of doing”. XV Teaching Symposium. UFRGS. Web: https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/211040
Carvalho, I., Dariva, B. (2019). “The southern gothic: adaptation of the environment in different medias”. 8th South Comparative Literature Colloquium - Poetics and Internationalization. UFRGS. Web: https://www.ufrgs.br/2019coloquiosul/eixo-3/
Carvalho, I., Sanseverino, A. (2019). The people in the Abyss: an exploration of the Londoner prosperity obscure side. In: CIELLE – International Congress of foreign language and literature studies, 157 – 158. Web: https://senallp.furg.br/images/CADERNO_DE_RESUMOS-SENALLP-CIELLE-SINPOL.pdf
Carvalho, I., Dariva, B. (2019). Psycho: a gothic story potentialized by the Hitchcockian direction. In: III SEG – Gothic Studies Seminar – Conference Proceeding, 15. Web: http://www.dialogarts.uerj.br/admin/arquivos_tfc_literatura/III_SEG_Caderno_de_Resumos.pdf
Carvalho, I., Copetti, I., Chiste, M. (2019). The double manifestation in the Harry Potter saga. In: CIELLE - International Congress of foreign language and literature studies, 193 – 194. Web: https://senallp.furg.br/images/CADERNO_DE_RESUMOS-SENALLP-CIELLE-SINPOL.pdf
Carvalho, I., Vidal, L., (2018). A root monster: the presence of the tradition in the Swamp Thing, by Alan Moore. In: IV Congresso Internacional Vertentes do Insólito Ficcional, VII Encontro Nacional, O Insólito como Questão na Narrativa Ficcional, XV Painel Reflexões sobre o insólito na narrativa ficcional, 222-223. Web: http://www.dialogarts.uerj.br/admin/arquivos_tfc_literatura/CadernodeResumos_2018%20.pdf
Books
Carvalho, I. (2018). Parcos Roteiros da Cidade. North Charleston: CreateSpace. Web: https://www.amazon.com.br/Parcos-Roteiros-Cidade-Icaro-Carvalho/dp/1987416295
Book Editing/ Publishing
2021 UCLA Westwind Journal of Artes Fall. Web: https://d85fc821-26f6-4f4d-a859-1112589da0d0.filesusr.com/ugd/58c2ec_613ae9fe50e84397890c320fc11ea169.pdf
2021 UCLA Westwind Flash Horror
Short movie
Carvalho, I., Dariva, B. (2016). Contemporary Love for “ArteMovie” short-movies contest. Web: http://artemovie.art.br/index.php/votacao/video/123
Websites Developed
Carvalho, I. (2019). Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFRGS. UFRGS Graduate program in Languages and Literature. Web: https://www.ufrgs.br/ppgletras/
Carvalho, I. (2019). Narrativas Curtas: modo de fazer. Short narratives: way of doing. Web: http://ufrgs.br/narrativascurtas
Carvalho, I., Costa, L. (2019). Narrativas Curtas: modo de fazer. Short narratives: way of doing. Web: https://narrativascurtas.wixsite.com/mododefazer
Carvalho, I. Estacio, D., Freitas, I., Reck, S., Rodrigues, T. (2019). II Jornada de estudos machadianos. II Journey of Machado de Assis’ studies. Web: https://www.ufrgs.br/ficcaodemachadodeassis/
CONFERENCES
Conference Panel
2019 “Glimpses of a Social Gear” at 7th National Meeting of Language and Literature, FEEVALE, Novo Hamburgo, November.
Paper Presentations
2021 Short Narratives masterclass at UFRGS' Culture Day. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 12, March. Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ510OzUu0&ab_channel=DepartamentodeDifus%C3%A3oCulturaldaUFRGS
2020 Books and films' tips by "Short Narratives" project for the period of social isolation. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 01, July. Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhTp7Skzq0&ab_channel=Extens%C3%A3oUFRGS
2020 “From Haruki Murakami to Lee Chang-Dong: cinematographic adaptation in the dynamic of social contexts of Japan and South Korea ”. Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC). UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 24, September. Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w1KvvgRDLg&ab_channel=Associa%C3%A7%C3%A3oBrasileiradeLiteraturaComparada
2020 “Short Narratives: online”. XVI Teaching Symposium. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 29, July.
2019 “The Lion in Winter”. Cycle of Films on Middle Ages and Romantic Period. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 29, October.
2019 “England, Great-Britain or United Kingdom? The differences between the British Islands”. GEDELLI - English Literature - study and debate Group, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 28, October.
2019 “The southern gothic: adaptation of the environment in different media”. 8th South Comparative Literature Colloquium - Poetics and Internationalization. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 23 – 25, October.
2019 “Short Narratives: way of doing”. XX Extension Symposium. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 21 – 25, October.
2019 “Short Narratives: way of doing”. XV Teaching Symposium. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 21 – 25 October.
2019 “A story in the denunciation literature: the London of London''. XIII International Literature and Journey History Seminar Camafeus Portraits: Biography Of Rio Grande do Sul Writers. PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 8 – 10, October.
2019 “Psycho: a gothic story potentialized by the Hitchcockian direction”. Gothic Studies Seminar. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 28 – 30, August.
2019 “The double manifestation in the Harry Potter Saga”. CIELLE - International Congress of foreign language and literature studies. FURG, Rio Grande, Brazil, 3 – 6, June.
2019 “The people in the Abyss: an exploration of the Londoner prosperity obscure side”. In: CIELLE - International Congress of foreign language and literature studies. FURG, Rio Grande, Brazil, 3 – 6, June.
2018 “A root monster: the presence of the tradition in the Swamp Thing, by Alan Moore”. IV Congresso Internacional Vertentes do Insólito Ficcional, VII Encontro Nacional, O Insólito como Questão na Narrativa Ficcional, XV Painel, Reflexões sobre o insólito na narrativa ficcional. UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11 – 15 November.
2018 “Short Narratives Course”. Languages Week at CAP. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25 – 29, June.
2017 “Flying Bottles and Emergency Lights: the portrait of the British youth of the '00 through the album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'”. Shakespeare & Friends. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 4 – 6 May.
2017 “Flying Bottles and Emergency Lights: the portrait of the British youth of the '00 through the album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'”. Languages and Literature week. PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 4 – 6 May
2015 “Manoel de Barros: an inventive look at everyday life. Literature event. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 13 – 15 May.
Poster Presentations
2019 “The double manifestation in the Harry Potter Saga”. International Congress of foreign language and literature studies, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, 3 – 6, June.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Guest Lecture
January 2024 “Stereotyping in Lusophone societies”. Guest lecture in lower division, general education course Portuguese 46: Brazil and Portuguese Speaking World, Professor Patrícia Lino. UCLA.
Undergraduate Courses and Seminars
Summer 2024 Spanish 1 – Elementary Spanish
Spring 2024 Portuguese 11A – Intensive Portuguese and culture
Winter 2024 Portuguese 46 – Luso Speaking World
Fall 2023 Portuguese 25 – Advanced Portuguese
Spring 2023 Portuguese 3 – Intermediate Portuguese
Winter 2023 Portuguese 46 – Luso Speaking World
Fall 2022 Portuguese 1 – Elementary Portuguese
Spring 2022 Portuguese 11B – Intensive Portuguese and culture
Winter 2022 Portuguese 11A – Intensive Portuguese and culture
Fall 2021 Portuguese 11A – Intensive Portuguese and culture
TEACHING EXPERIENCE at FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Undergraduate Seminars
2019 Brazilian Literature C
University Courses
2020 Short Narratives: Instructor, tutor, and teacher. Supervisor: Regina Zilberman, PhD.
2019 Short Narratives: Instructor, tutor, teacher, and creator of the pioneer course of creative writing at UFRGS with professor Regina Zilberman, PhD.
TEACHING at PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTEXT
2017 Portuguese Language and Brazilian literature for Sixth Grade at Laboratory School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
2017 Portuguese Language and Brazilian literature for Junior Year at Laboratory School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
2016 English Language and Culture for Sixth Grade at America State Elementary School
2016 English Language and Culture for Ninth Grade at America State Elementary School
RESEARCH GROUPS
2019 - now Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR
Literature Department
- Member of research group under supervision of Antônio Marcos Vieira Sanseverino, PhD.
- “Realism, Allegory, Gender and Slavery: a study of the stories by Machado de Assis”.
2018 - now Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR
Foreign Literatures Department
- Member of research group under supervision of Sandra Sirangelo Maggio, PhD.
- “Society, History and Memory in English Language Literatures”.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION GROUPS OR PROJECTS
2019 - now Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR
Literature Department
- Creator, tutor and member of project under supervision of Regina Zilberman, PhD.
- “Short Narratives: way of doing”.
2018 - now Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR
Foreign Literatures Department
- Member of research group under supervision of Sandra Sirangelo Maggio, PhD.
- “GEDELLI - English Literature - study and debate Group”.
CERTIFICATE
2019 Certificate of English Proficiency TOEFL ITB
General Score: 101
SERVICE
Extra courses taken
2020 Masterpieces of World Literature. Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America, April.
2020 Modern Masterpieces of World Literature. Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America, April.
2020 American Capitalism: A History. Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America, March.
2020 Teaching Critical Thinking through Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States of America, March.
2018 The Age of Enlightenment in Latin America: Emergency, Delimitation and Constitution with Professor Fernando Nina-Rada, Phd, from Heidelberg University. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 27 – 29, March.
2018 Creative Writing: Short Stories with Professor Arthur Beltrão Telló, from PUCRS University. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 9 – 18, July.
2018 Grounding Figurative Language Acquisition/ Development with Professor Herbert Colston, Phd, from University of Alberta. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 21 – 23, March.
Research report
2020 Report about activities for Capes-PROEX scholarship 2019-2
2019 “Short Narratives: way of doing”
2019 Report about activities for Capes-PROEX scholarship 2019-1
2018 Report about activities for Capes-PROEX scholarship 2018-2
Organization of Events
2021 8th UCLA Latin American & Iberian Film Festival
2019 1st Seminar of Students from UFRGS and PUCRS, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, 11 – 13 November.
2019 8th South Comparative Literature Colloquium - Poetics and Internationalization, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 23 – 25 October.
2019 II Journey of studies in Machado de Assis, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 01 – 02 August.
2019 The English Fair 2019, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 18 May.
2018 The English Fair 2018, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 20 May.
Judging Committee
2019 Committee of the literary contest “Minuano Prize” in the “Chronicle Texts” category. IEL (Book Institute of the State), Porto Alegre.
Undergraduate Final Thesis – Reader
2019 Work: Andrade, A. – The history of Boudicca, the warrior queen.
Readers: Carvalho, I., Oliveira, V., Maggio, S.
2019 Work: Copetti, I. – Memory and representation in Memoir of Jane Austen.
Readers: Carvalho, I., Costa, M., Maggio, S.
Main Photography for Website
2019 Official photos for the new Languages and Literature Graduate Program at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Main info
Icaro Carvalho
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Los Angeles 900095
E-mail: icaro@ucla.edu