Paulo Martins

Professor at Universidade de São Paulo - USP/Brasil

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

About

I majored on Greek and Latin Languages at The Univeridade de São Paulo (1990) and I obtained master and doctorate degrees on Classics in 1996 and 2003, respectively, at same University. I taught Latin Literature and Language at some private universities and at The Universidade Estadual “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” at Assis/São Paulo. Besides that. I taught Portuguese Language and Literature at some High Schools in São Paulo also. Currently, I’m Professor at Universidade de São Paulo at the Department of Classic and Vernacular Languages and Literature, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, supervising both Master and Doctorate students. I was Vice-President of The Brazilian Society of Classical Studies (2010-2011), also President of Editorial Board of Classica (Brasil), the journal of the same Society, and currently I am its editor. I was chair of the Graduate Program of Classic Languages and Literatures/USP (2009-2011). I was Visiting Professor at King’s College London (KCL) at The University of London, with sponsorship of FAPESP (2012) and Visiting fellow at Yale University (2013-2014) developing a study on Augustan poetry. I am a researcher at CNPQ anda the Program of Advanced Studies on Antiquity’s Representations (PROAERA) at The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and member of the group research “Rhetoric and Artistic Doctrines” (USP/CNPq). I am a member of the Deliberative and Advisory Council of Brazilian Society of Rhetoric (affiliated ALR and ISHR). I’m affiliated to ICS (Institute of Classical Studies, London). I published some books: Imagem e Poder, considerações sobre a representação de Otávio Augusto by Editora da Universidade de São Paulo (2012); Algumas Visões da Antiguidade by 7Letras/Faperj (2011); Literatura Latina by IESDE (2010) e Elegia Romana - Construção e Efeito by Humanitas (2009); Augustan Poetry, New trends and revaluations and more than forty papers

Experience

  • USP - Universidade de São Paulo (27 yrs 7 mos)
    • President, Libraries and Digital Collections - USP
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

    • Professor Livre-Docente
      Jan 1999 - Present · 27 yrs 7 mos

    • Vice Director of FFLCH
      Sep 2016 - Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Dean at Universidade de São Paulo
    Sep 2020 - Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Visiting Fellow at Yale University
    Dec 2013 - Jun 2014 · 7 mos

  • Visiting Professor at King's College London
    Jan 2012 - Jun 2012 · 6 mos

  • Professor at Colégio Dante Aliguieri
    Feb 1999 - Apr 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos