Diana Klinger
Diana Klinger is a full Professor of Literary Theory at the Fluminense Federal University (since 2009) and a researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, since 2015).
She received the Tinker Visiting Professor grant at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2021.
Between 2015 and 2018, she received the Young Scientist of Our State scholarship from the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (FAPERJ).
She has a degree in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires (2000), where she taught Brazilian Literature, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2006). She did post-doctoral studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2007-2009) and at the University of San Andres (Argentina, in 2022).
Since 2009 she coordinates the Research Group (Cnpq) “Theoretical-Critical Thinking about the Contemporary”, which - among other achievements - published the Indicionário do contemporâneo and participated in the International Cooperation agreement with the Maestria en Literatura Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Tres de Febrero (Argentina).
She has lectured at various Brazilian (Unifesp, UNB, UFBA, UFSC, UFSM, among others) and international universities, such as the University of Coimbra, the University of Warsaw, the University Adama Mickiewicza Poznan (Poland), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of San Andres (Argentina) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is the author of the books Escritas de si, escritas do outro: o retorno do autor e a virada etnográfica (Writings of the self, writings of the other: the return of the author and the ethnographic turn) (original edition 2007, fourth edition 2024) and Literatura e ética: da forma para a força (Literature and ethics: from form to force ) (Rocco, 2014), as well as numerous articles in academic journals.
She was the editor of the bi-national magazine Grumo for twelve years (2002-2014), and has translated several books of poetry, narrative and essays.