Henrique Bordini

Henrique Bordini

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Universitätsstraße 40
91054 Erlangen

Research Interests

  • Sociology of Literature
  • Censorship in Literature
  • Human Rights and Literature
  • Comparative Literature

Research Projects

Dissertation: The Bräunig and Brandão cases: comparative studies on censorship in the GDR and Brazil.

Henrique’s project aims to assert a link between Brazil and Germany through a comparative analysis of the bureaucratic structure of censorship in the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the GDR. By comparing the books Zero, by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, and Rummelplatz, by Werner Bräunig and their respective censorship reports/justifications by the bureaucratic offices responsible for repression, the aim is to identify similarities in the censorship structure in both countries. The accompanying readings of uncensored works that are equally critical of the regimes, such as Sargento Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro and Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel, are intended to deepen the understanding of the relationship between censorship and the public sphere.

Education & Employment

since 2022: PhD Comparative Literature – GRK 2806 / Friedrich-Alexander-University

2020 – 2022: Masters Comparative Literature – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

2016 – 2022: Private teacher for German language

2018: Internship Department of Human Rights Protection in the Public Defensorship of Rio Grande do Sul (Defensoria Pública do Rio Grande do Sul)

2014 – 2016: Internship 3rd Department of Children’s Rights in the Public Defensorship of Rio Grande do Sul (Defensoria Pública do Rio Grande do Sul)

2012 – 2018: Bachelor Law – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

2008 – 2011: Bachelor Romance Studies – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Publications

Authored Books

Henrique Bordini, Gerson Roberto Neumann, Robert Schade (Eds.): Questões de Fronteira – discussões em torno de literatura e cultura. Porto Alegre: Editora Bestiário, 2023. ISBN: 978-65-6056-019-2

Journal Articles

BORDINI, H. S. (2023). Retrato calado e A resistência: alguns aspectos formais da produção literária brasileira sobre a ditadura civil-militar (1964-1985). Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 64, p. 239–260, 2023. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.128480. URL: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/128480.

Bordini, H. S. (2023). Ensaio sobre Linguagem, Tradução e Literatura em Johann Gottfried Herder. Alguns apontamentos. Contingentia, 10(1). Available at https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/contingentia/article/view/130838

Book Contributions

BORDINI, H. S. (2023). Fui ao mar sem saber para onde iria: uma leitura do Diário de minha viagem no ano 1769, de Johann Gottfried Herder. In: Henrique Bordini, Gerson Roberto Neumann, Robert Schade (Eds.): Questões de Fronteira – discussões em torno de literatura e cultura. Porto Alegre: Editora Bestiário, 2023. ISBN: 978-65-6056-019-2

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers

Vergleichende Zensursysteme: Brasilien und DDR – Lecture at Taller de Tesis en Estudios Latinoamericanos (Prof. Sebastian Thies) at Universität Thübingen.