Dr Gustavo D B A S Infante

Teaching:
Deputy Language Director (Portuguese), overseer of the Portuguese language programme
Representative of Instituto Camões, Portugal, at the University of Bristol

2024/25

Y1 Portuguese ab-initio: all skills
Y2 Portuguese: Integrated Skills
Y4 Portuguese: Integrated Skills
HISP20120: Mobility and Displacement in the Lusophone World (co-teacher)
HISP30070: Dictatorships, prisons, and writings in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds (unit convenor)
MODLM0025: Theorising Violence; Colonial encounters and anticolonial reactions. (1 week lecture & seminar) 

Research:
Prison literature in the context of Portuguese and Brazilian dictatorships.
Comparative Literature: Chinese and Portuguese 20th-century fiction
'Res Sinicae' project (Classics, University of Lisbon): edition and translation into Portuguese of 'Sapientia Sinica', i.e., the Analects of Confucius in Latin translation, Chinese text, and romanisation of Chinese text.

After having spent four years in Beijing,  I moved to Bristol as a PhD student. I ended up staying in Bristol and consider myself a bit Bristolian now.

Member of research teams at:
Centre of Classical Studies (University of Lisbon)
Literature(s) from Macau (University of Macau, University of Lisbon, University of São Paulo, Università degli studi di Firenze)