Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
PhD candidate

Hello.

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature
at the University of Chicago.

 

Interests.

My current academic interests include:

  • 20th c. American novels
  • African-American literature
  • Latina/o literature
  • American communist literature
  • Nationalism and the state
  • (Human) geography
  • Community and belonging
  • Queer theory
 

Academics.

I have

  • a CV pdf.
  • a dissertation title (and slightly misformatted bibliography pdf):
    • Sic Transit America: Novels in, of, beyond,
      and below the United States, 1928–1941
  • taught:
  • presented:
    • “America’s Largest DG Network: The U.S.A. as the Protagonist of U.S.A.” at the France Workshop. (Dec 2009)
    • “Lines of Flight (and Other Nation-Building Vectors)” at the American Cultures Workshop. (May 2009)
    • “Beyond ‘Flat Maps’: GIS in the Humanities” for a Humanities Computing TechTalk. (Jun 2009) (video)
  • used in my academic writing:
    • DEVONthink Pro, an information management system for Mac OS X.
    • Zotero (Free), a cross-platform bilbiographic database manager for Firefox. (profile)
    • Scrivener, a drafting environment for Mac OS X.
    • MultiMarkdown (Free), a syntax for creating human-readable LaTeX / RTF documents.
    • TeXShop (Free), a Mac OS X front end for formatting documents with XeLaTeX.
    • BibDesk (Free), a Mac OS X front end for formatting bibliographies in BibTeX.
    • National History GIS (Free), an online repository of US Census and geographical data.
    • GeoDa (Free), a spatial data analysis application.
    • ArcGIS, an integrated system for creating a Geographic Information System.
    • R (Free), a software environment for statistical computing.
 

Online.

I actively maintain:

 

Contact.

I can be reached by Facebook, LinkedIn, Graduate Junction, FOAF, and email.

My email address is my first name (six letters) < @ > uchicago < dot > edu.