TORCH Welcomes Érico Nogueira as Global South Visiting Professor 2022 2023
1 October 2022
TORCH is delighted to welcome Érico Nogueira as a Global South Visiting Professor. Érico is Professor of Latin at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil for Michaelmas Term, 2022/23. Widely regarded as one of the most important Brazilian poets writing today, Professor Nogueira has translated authors as diverse and challenging as St Augustine and Geoffrey Hill, and written extensively on metrics and versification.
Author of four collections of poetry and one novel, he was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize for the books Poesia Bovina (2014) and Dois (2010). Professor Nogueira was also a finalist for the São Paulo Prize for Literature for Contra um Bicho da Terra tão Pequeno (2018), and winner of the Minas Gerais Literature Award for O Livro de Scardanelli (2008)
He is the current TORCH / All Souls Global South Professor for 2022/2023.
