Gerson Neumann

Prof. Dr. Gerson Roberto Neumann is associate professor at UFRGS – Porto Alegre – since 2011, where he is dedicated to the study of German literature and language, as well as translation. His background is in Portuguese/German Letters at UNISINOS, in São Leopoldo (1990-1994). From 1995 to 2001 he was a German teacher in Rio de Janeiro; he earned a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature at UFRJ (2000) and a PhD in Literature Sciences at FU-Berlin, with a DAAD scholarship (2004). His thesis, published in Germany, is entitled “Brasilien ist nicht weit von hier! Die Thematik der deutschen Auswanderung nach Brasilien in der deutschen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts (1800-1871)”.

From 2014-2015, he conducted post-doc research at the University of Potsdam with a Capes and Alexander-von- Humboldt scholarship. He recently published the following translations from German into Portuguese: Am Beispiel meines Bruders (Author Uwe Timm) and Kant’s Foundation of the metaphysics of customs (Author Allen Wood; Dieter Schonecker), both in 2014 and Die Colonie. Brasilianische Lebensbilder (Author Friedrich Gerstäcker) in 2016. He is currently coordinating a project on the work of the writer Yoko Tawada and two translations of the author will be published later this year in Brazil. He is a researcher-founder of the Center for European and German Studies – CDEA and Member of the Historical Institute of São Leopoldo – IHSL