Bruno Carvalho received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. An Assistant Professor in Luso-Brazilian studies, his research interests focus on some of the intersections between urban development and cultural expressions. He has published articles on topics like the relation between Rio de Janeiro's beaches and modernity, as well as on how Brazil functions as a cultural space in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. He has also collaborated (with Kenneth Maxwell) on a forthcoming introduction and critical edition in Portuguese of the earliest versions of the United States constitutions, which circulated in 18th century Brazil and played a role in movements to overthrow the monarchy. Currently, he is working on a book tentatively entitled "New City in a New World: literary spaces of an Afro-Jewish Brazilian neighborhood," and looks forward to projects on the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, on soccer in Latin American literature, and on Lusophone African cinema.