Prof. Pereira was born in Porto, Portugal. He holds a licenciatura in Philosophy (1993) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (2005) from Brown University. He has been at Ohio State since 2008. While his teaching covers most areas related to the literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world, his research centers on 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures, with a focus on the African diasporas in Portugal, the representation of Blackness in modern Portuguese literature by white authors and the rise of Black authorship in the modern period. His first book, Filósofos de trazer por casa. Cenários da apropriação da Filosofia em Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis was published in 2013 by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal and Annablume, Brazil, and he is currently working on a second book entitled Ghosts in the Machine. Black Subjectivities in Portuguese Literature, 1840s to 2020s. His articles have been published in academic journals in the US, Brazil, Portugal, and the UK. He has been a guest columnist for Portuguese and Brazilian newspapers, radio, and TV stations on issues pertaining to the legacies of Portuguese colonialism.

Latest Publications:

Books

• 2014 Filósofos de Trazer por Casa: Cenários da Apropriação da Filosofia em Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis. São Paulo: Annablume.
• 2013 Filósofos de Trazer por Casa: Cenários da Apropriação da Filosofia em Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis. University of Coimbra Press [Coimbra, Portugal].

Articles

• 2026 “Antiracism in the Fiction of Mário Domingues Pre- and Post Estado Novo.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 45. Forthcoming summer 2026.
• 2023 “Mário Domingues, Ferreira de Castro e a ‘linha de cor’ nas letras portuguesas.” Revista Brasileira de História, vol. 43, 93. 105-129.
• 2022 “The (In)Tangible Legacy of ‘Generic Luso-tropicalism’: Unexamined Links in the Textual History of ‘Portuguese Humane Colonialism’.”  Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 36-37. 53-80.
• 2018 “Eça de Queirós e o sublime africano.” Queirosiana. Estudos sobre Eça de Queirós e sua Geração. 25-26. 15-30.
• 2018 “O racismo como herança colonial numa periferia europeia.” Electra 3. Lisbon, Portugal: Fundação EDP. 161-167.
• 2016 “Eça de Queirós e o sublime africano.” Queirosiana 25. Forthcoming, December.
• 2013 b. “An East, east of the East’: Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa’s Álvaro de Campos and the Scope of Portuguese Orientalism.” Ellipsis11. 2013. 13-41
• 2012 “Uma ideia de Garrett: O douto livro das Viagens na Minha Terra.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 21-22. 259-268

Book Chapters

•  “Sinceridade colonial, temperamento ardente, fuligem nativa. A Preta Fernanda cem anos depois.” Preface to Recordações d’uma colonial (Memórias da preta Fernanda). Edições Sistema Solar, on display.
• 2026 “Antiracism as Avant-garde in the Portuguese Black Modernity and its Avatars, 1919-1930.” A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Iberian Peninsula, Vol. 1. Forthcoming 2027.
• Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s “Bruma,” Eça de Queirós, and the Specters of Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Realism. Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures: Literary and Intercultural Communication. Cândido Oliveira Martins, Carmen Ramos Villar and Michela Graziani, eds. London: Palgrave. 2024, p.129-148.
•  “Remembering Africa.” Africa in Portuguese, the Portuguese in Africa. Reappraisals. Volume co-edited with Isabel Ferreira Gould. (Under submission to University of Minesotta Press)
•  “Hegel, Humane Colonialism, and the Genealogies of Portuguese Exceptionalism.” Forthcoming in Transatlantic Studies Reader: Latin America, Iberia and Africa. Under submission to Duke University Press.
• “Portuguese and the Emergence of Iberian Studies.” Forthcoming in Beyond Tordesillas. Critical Essays in Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies. Robert P. Newcomb and Richard Gordon, eds. The Ohio State University Press. Spring 2017. 4-23

Current Scholarly Projects

•  Black Subjectivities in Modern Portuguese Literature, 1840s-2020s. Book Manuscript. In progress.