Luiz Roncari is professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo. A Historian major with a Masters in Social History about Machado de Assis' cultural and literary context, at the University of São Paulo. HIs Ph. D in Brazilian Liiterature focused on the novel and literary creation, having also written about João Guimarães Rosa. With a post-doctorate from Italy, at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, he developed a project about bibliography and iconography. Among his books, he published  a novel, Rum para Rondônia ( Siciliano, 1991) and academic books like Literatura Brasileira: dos primeiros cronistas aos últimos românticos (EDUSP, 1995/2002 2a. ed. revista e aumentada); O Brasil de Rosa: o amor e o poder (UNESP/FAPESP, 2004); O Cão do Sertão: literatura e engajamento (UNESP, 2007); Buriti do Brasil e da Grécia: patriarcalismo e dionisismo no sertão de Guimarães Rosa (Editora 34, 2013); Lutas e Auroras – os avessos do Grande Sertão: Veredas (UNESP, 2018).

Contact: luiz.roncari@gmail.com