Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
Currently on leave working as a 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.
Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia); funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance Joint PhD Scholarship.
My transdisciplinary doctoral research intersects Philosophy, Literature, and History. I examine how Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Paul Veyne used Latin Elegiac poems and Baroque art as aesthetic operators for their practice of writing historiography of Philosophy, inventing heteronymous and homonymous characters based on philosophical figures.
My other interests are Cultural Anthropology; Translations; and Pop Culture (particularly Christopher Isherwood).
Editor-in-Chief of Plí: The Warwick Journal of PhilosophyLink opens in a new window.
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Recent Publications
Peer Reviewed
- Paper, 2024 (English): (Un)Folding Time. A Philosophical Analysis of "Cloud Atlas" (2012)Link opens in a new window
- Paper, 2023 (Portuguese): Between Hobbes and Foucault: Sovereignty and ResistancesLink opens in a new window
- Paper, 2023 (Portuguese): The Sublunar Parody: Paul Veyne, his thoughts, his peoplesLink opens in a new window
- Paper Translation, 2023 (French - Portuguese): On Humanism and Terror by Maurice Merleau-PontyLink opens in a new window (George Bataille)
- Paper Translation, 2022 (French - Portuguese): Nietzsche and Clausewitz: The WarLink opens in a new window (George Bataille)
Other Publications
- Research Report, 2023 (English): Black Holes: Artistic Metaphors for the ContemporaneityLink opens in a new window
- Book Translation, 2023 (Spanish/ English/ Portuguese): Michel Foucault: Becoming Of Thought And Multiplication Of PracticesLink opens in a new window
- Article (Portuguese): Sino-Brazilian friendship: a cooperative modernizationLink opens in a new window
Future Conferences
- Presenter, 2024 (English): Paul Veyne: Storiogrpahy and Elegy (Northeast Popular Culture Association's ConferenceLink opens in a new window, Nichols College, United States);
- Presenter, 2025 (English): Masks of a Woman: Jean, Sally, and Charlotte, echos of Isherwood (Association for Philosophy and Literature, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
Past Conferences
- Presenter, 2024 (English): Paul Veyne: Storiogrpahy and Elegy (XXV World Congress Philosophy Rome, L'Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy);
- Presenter, 2024 (English): Cabaret: Heterotopy Through Literature and Film (Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Cardiff University, Wales);
- Organizer, 2023 (Spanish/ Portuguese): Politics and Rights in Foucault. Cycle of Conferences with Marcelo RaffinLink opens in a new window (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil);
- Presenter, 2022 (Spanish/ English): Football and War: Yugoslavia through Foucault and DeleuzeLink opens in a new window (6th International Congress for Postgraduate Students, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico);
- Presenter, 2022 (Portuguese): The relationship between Literature and History in Travel Narratives, Reports and Chronicles written in ArabicLink opens in a new window (XXVI National History Association's State Meeting, Brazil);
- Presenter, 2021 (English): Amerindians And Our New Heterotopias (Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, University of Warwick, UK).
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:
Foucault, Deleuze, and Veyne. The Role of the Baroque and Elegy in the Construction of Philosophical Narratives
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
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gustavo-ruiz-da-silva-a33325323
For more information, visit: https://ruizdasilva-gustavo.my.canva.site/Link opens in a new window