Sebastiao Edson Macedo serves as Staff Graduate Advisor for both the PhD Program in German Studies and the PhD Program in Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
PORTFOLIO: Graduate admission information and procedures, fellowships, student guidance, academic progress, exam assistance, degree completion, committees, Graduate Division policies and procedures.
He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures with an emphasis on Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. MA in Portuguese and African Literatures at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has published translations of poetry, and articles on representations of marginality and poverty in Brazilian literature. As a poet, he published three volumes of poetry: cego puro sol (2004), para apascentar o tamanho do mundo (2006), and as medicinas (2010). Sebastiao also loves stamps, conifers, and is an expert in sumo wrestling.
