Pedro Augusto Pinto is a PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil), with internships at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany) and Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France), and holds a Master’s degree in Russian Culture and Literature as well as a Bachelor’s degree in History from that same university, having conducted a research internship at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow – Russia) and academic exchanges at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and St. Mary’s University College (London, UK). Pinto has served as a researcher at the José Bonifácio Chair of the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (IRI-USP) and is currently a member of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought at Northwestern University (Illinois - USA). Since 2015, he has focused his research on the works of Mikhail Lermontov, particularly his lyrical poetry, analyzing it through the lenses of cultural history and the social history of literature. His research interests also extend to the history of imperial Russia and modern history, Romanticism and the connections between literature and psychoanalysis.

Research Project at EXC "Temporal Communities":

Negativity as Temporality in A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov