Juliana de Assis Beraldo

Juliana de Assis Beraldo is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Her research explores how Latin American contemporary art engages with the archives of naturalism, focusing on both naturalist travelers and 19th-century literary-artistic naturalism. Beraldo was a Visiting Researcher (2023-2024) at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University (NYU), where she conducted bibliographical research for her dissertation. Her master’s thesis examined the intersections between art, philosophy, and queer theory. She is also a member of the Advanced Program of Contemporary Culture (PACC/UFRJ) where multidisciplinary research forums and workshops by artists, education professionals and researchers are held to exchange methodologies between different fields of the arts and humanities for writing practices, artistic production and studies concerned with contemporaneity. Beraldo’s primary research interests include Latin American contemporary art, feminist and queer criticism, and decolonial studies.