Janaina Tatim
Currently, I am conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), in the Institute of Letters, PPG Literary Studies, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Adalberto Müller, with the project "Yanomami Paths to Literature: Ontological Opening and Translation in The Fall of the Sky". For this research, I was able to count on a grant from the Postdoctoral Program Grade 10 - 2024, from the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), process E-26/200.311/2025. In 2024, I obtained the title of Doctor in Literary Theory and History from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Márcio Seligmann-Silva, with the support of a doctoral scholarship, process no. 2019/21533-3, from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), defended a thesis on the book *The Fall of the Sky - Words of a Yanomami Shaman*, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert. In 2018, I completed my master's degree in the same program, continuing my undergraduate research on the prose of Machado de Assis, funded by a FAPESP research grant, process no. 2016/204076, and supervised by Prof. Dr. Jefferson Cano. Part of this master's research was conducted as a sandwich program at Yale University, under the supervision of Prof. PhD David Jackson, also with funding from FAPESP. In 2014, I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Letters from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where I conducted Scientific Initiation for four years, both as a volunteer and as a PIBIC-CNPq scholarship recipient. I studied the work of Machado de Assis with Professor Dr. Antonio Sanseverino and his research group, focusing on the problems of modernization in Brazil and the tensions of the social process in literary forms, with a particular interest in Machado's insertion in the periodical press. I also systematically studied the work of the philosopher Walter Benjamin with Professor Dr. Cláudia Luiza Caimi and her research group. In 2012, I received the Young Researcher Award from that University for best research in the area of Letters, Linguistics, and Arts. My research perspective is interdisciplinary, and my main concerns relate to the relationships between literature, society, and history. My main areas of activity and interest are: the social markers of difference in literature, such as class, gender, ethnicity, race, and locality; Literature, culture and the indigenous cause; translation; anthropology; problems of literary historiography; literary theory; the work and criticism of Machado de Assis; Brazilian literature.
