Short Bio
Peter W. Schulze is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of the Portuguese-Brazilian Institute at the Universität zu Köln (UzK). In 2022, he was the co-director of Mecila in São Paulo. He received his PhD from the international doctoral programme ‘Performance and Media Studies’ at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz; his doctoral dissertation Strategies of Cultural Cannibalization: Postcolonial Representations from Brazilian Modernismo to Cinema Novo received the Georg-Rudolf-Lind Award (2015) from the German Association of Lusitanists. He has been a visiting professor at various universities, including the Universidade Federal da Bahia, the Universidade Federal do Ceará, the Universidade Federal Fluminense, the University of Reading, and the Yaşar Üniversitesi in Izmir. His main research interests are decolonial theories and cultural practices. Peter W. Schulze is the editor of the book series Estudos Luso-Brasileiros (Peter Lang Press) and Cadernos do Instituto Luso-Brasileiro (PBI/University of Cologne). Currently, he directs the research projects Thinking at the Margins: Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Arts, funded by the Thyssen Foundation, and Lusophone Cultural Contacts: Negotiating Conviviality, in cooperation with the University of Coimbra and funded by the DAAD.
Project for the Network
Reverberations of Italian Neorealism in Brazilian and Portuguese Cinema
This comparative study analyses how the esthetics and ethics of Italian Neorealist films were taken up and transformed in Brazilian and Portuguese cinema. By considering precursors of the Italian film movement as well as local specificities and transnational interrelations, a crisscrossing history of cultural and cinematographic contacts will come to the fore.