Gustavo P. Furtado, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Please note: Gustavo has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	105 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• ROMST 341S.01, PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMAZON Synopsis

  Languages 114, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as LATAMER 341S.01, LIT 341S.01, PORTUGUE 341S.01)

• ROMST 755S.01, DISSERTATION-WRITING SEMINAR Synopsis

  Languages 208, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

Cornell University

2012

Specialties:

Portuguese
Film, Media and Visual Studies
Spanish and Latin-American Studies
Modernity and Modernism
Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality
Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

Keywords:

Gesture

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Furtado, G, TÁTICAS DO INVISÍVEL EM BRANCO SAI, PRETO FICA (2015): CINEMA, ARQUIVO E MEMÓRIA ÀS MARGENS DE BRASÍLIA, Revista Iberoamericana, vol. LXXXVIII no. 277 (December, 2022), pp. 1157-1178, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh [doi]
2. Furtado, G, Intermedial Territories: Maps and the Amazonian Moving Image, in TOWARDS AN INTERMEDIAL HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA., edited by Nagib, L; Araujo, LCD; de Luca, T (July, 2022), pp. 307-322, ISBN 9781474452984  [abs]
3. Furtado, G, The Indigenous "Contact Film" and its Afterlives in Latin American Cinema, in A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, edited by Castro-Klaren, S (May, 2022), pp. 634-645, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 9781119692539
4. Furtado, GP; Correa, M, Interview with Mari Correa, in WOMAN-CENTERED BRAZILIAN CINEMA (2022), pp. 233-249, ISBN 978-1-4384-9025-0
5. Draper, JAIII; Rego, C; Furtado, GP; Ramos, MA, Interview with Maria Augusta Ramos, in WOMAN-CENTERED BRAZILIAN CINEMA (2022), pp. 101-112, ISBN 978-1-4384-9025-0