Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Gustavo Ruiz da Silva

Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia); funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance Joint PhD Scholarship.

Visiting Graduate Scholar at The Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, Johns Hopkins University (USA); funded by the Warwick PhD and Early Career Research Fellowship.

My transdisciplinary doctoral research surrounds Philosophy, Literature, and History, focusing on Christopher Isherwood. I examine his books as Latin Elegiac Poems through Post-structuralist lenses (Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Paul Veyne), arguing that Isherwood created a non-confessional literary-cinematographic mechanism to engage with his historical experiences through heteronymous and homonymous characters.

My other interests are Cultural Anthropology; Translations; and Pop Culture.

Editor-in-Chief of Plí: The Warwick Journal of PhilosophyLink opens in a new window.

Check our new CFP on Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives.

Recent Publications


Peer Reviewed
Other Publications


Future Conferences



Past Conferences



Former Teaching Position at Warwick



International Research Activities


  • 2025: Visiting Graduate Researcher (Johns Hopkins University, USA; Supervised by Shane Butler);
  • 2023: Research Internship (Charles University, Czech Republic; Supervised by Ondřej Váša);
  • 2023: Summer Research School (Bonn University, Germany);
  • 2022: Visiting Research Student (University of Warwick, UK; Supervised by Daniele Lorenzini);
  • 2019: Research Exchange Student (Sciences Po Paris, France).

Recent Awards


  • 2023: Best Paper (Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Brazil);
  • 2022: Best Poster (National History Association's State Meeting, Brazil);
  • 2019: Best Social Sciences Undergraduate Research (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil).

Former Qualifications


  • 2022: MPhil in Philosophy (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil; Supervised by Yolanda G. G. Muñoz);
  • 2021: BA in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, Brazil; Supervised by Paulo Daniel Elias Farah);
  • 2020: BA in Anthropology (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil; Supervised by Guilherme Gomes Jr.).

Thesis Title:

Camp, Elegy, and Identity: A Post-structuralist Analysis of Christopher Isherwood


Supervisors:

Monash University:

Chris WatkinLink opens in a new window - School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics


University of Warwick:

Eileen JohnLink opens in a new window - Department of Philosophy

Paulo de MedeirosLink opens in a new window - Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies


Johns Hopkins University:

Shane ButlerLink opens in a new window - Department of Classics


If you want to collaborate on a new project, please email me: gustavo.da-silva@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

For more information, visit: https://ruizdasilva-gustavo.my.canva.site/Link opens in a new window