Élide Valarini Oliver

Education

Ph.D, University of São Paulo

Bio

Professor Valarini Oliver specializes in Brazilian literature (Baroque and Colonial, 19th Century, Modernism, Contemporary), Brazilian film, Brazilian music, Comparative literature, Portuguese literature (Early Modern, 19th and 20th centuries) History of ideas, History of art, Music, Philosophy, Literary criticism, theory and practice of translation, aiming at its proper contextualization within Brazilian culture, and its significance beyond its borders. Professor Valarini Oliver works within hermeneutical intercultural contexts between literatures (Brazilian, French, Irish, German), aesthetics (Music, Visual Arts) and philosophy of science and language. Her most recent work focuses on Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa, nature and nationalism, philosophy of science and language.

A native of São Paulo, with close contacts with Brazilian cultural life, Professor Valarini Oliver received her Ph.D from the University of São Paulo (Music and Letters: Portuguese, English and French). Her Post-doc studies were conducted at the University of São Paulo and Yale University. She has taught at the University of São Paulo and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC–São Paulo), and has held positions of Visiting researcher and lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK, and the University of São Paulo.

Professor Valarini Oliver is the recipient of a Jabuti Prize (2007), and twice the recipient of the Itamaraty Prize for Brazilian Literature/Brazilian Academy of Letters with A Poesia de Machado no Século XXI: Revisita, Revisão in 2006 and with Ácida? Amarga? O sabor da sátira em Lima Barreto in 2008. She is also the recipient of Brazil's National Library "Paulo Rónai" Award for Translation with Gargantua by François Rabelais (Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP) in 2022. 

Publications

O Quarto Livro, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP (Forthcoming)
Véu da natureza. Romantismo, nacionalismo, modernismo. Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP (Forthcoming)
Prognosticações e Almanaques, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP (Forthcoming)
A Sciomaquia, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP (Forthcoming)
O Quinto Livro, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP (Forthcoming)
A quinta essência do pó / This Quintessence of dust. Editora Quelônio (Forthcoming)
Pantagruel, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP, 2022
Gargantua, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP, 2022
O Quarto Livro, François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP, 2016
O Terceiro Livro , François Rabelais (Annotated translation and introduction). Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP, 2006
Variações sob a mesma luz. Machado de Assis repensado. EDUSP/NANKIN, 2012
Joyce e Rabelais.Três Leituras Menipeias. Ateliê Editorial/UNICAMP, 2008
Campo Ceifado Agora. 7LETRAS, 2006
El Universo y O Sertão. Biblioteca Crítica de las Literaturas Luso-Hispánicas. Ediciones del Orto, 2006