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.
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Recent Publications
Peer Reviewed
- Paper, 2024 (English): Some notes on the relationship between Adorno and the Southern EpistemologyLink 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 (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);
- 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
- 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:
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