Department of Spanish and Portuguese

About Maria Cintra Guimarães

Maria Cintra Guimarães earned her Ph.D. in Portuguese from Indiana University in 2024, with a minor in History and Philosophy of Science. Her dissertation was titled “Unity & Diversity in Fernando Pessoa.” She holds an M.A. in Portuguese from Indiana University (2013), with a thesis titled “Poetry and Music: A Transdisciplinary Study of Fernando Pessoa’s Mensagem,” and a B.A. from Universidade de Brasília (2003), with an undergraduate thesis in syntax and historical linguistics titled “Causative Constructions in Classical and Contemporary Portuguese.” She taught as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University and later served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), where she developed and led courses in 19th- and 20th-century Portuguese literature and Luso-African literature. Her research focuses on Lusophone literature, modernism, philosophy, and the intersections of poetry, science, and music. Her recent publications include “Caeiro’s Stoniness: A Pagan Reclamation of Reality” and “Equilibrium under Maximal Tension: Anabolism, Catabolism, and Modernist Poetics.” As a violinist, she has performed with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra Sinfônica da Ceilândia, integrating her musical training into her literary analysis.