Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life Through the Eyes of the City

Since 1994, Beatriz Jaguaribe has been a professor at the School of Communications of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is currently Associate Professor at the graduate program. She is a member of CiberIdeias, a research group associated to the School of Communications. Her essays on urban culture, representations of the self in literature and photography, and her work on the new aesthetics of realism in the media and literature have been published in Public Culture, Space and Culture, Springerin, TodaVia, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and several Brazilian journals. In 1999, she was awarded the RioArte fellowship given by the city of Rio de Janeiro for artistic projects. In 2000, she received a fellowship from ICAS (Center of Advanced Studies of New York University). In 2004, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for a joint project with Mauricio Lissovsky entitled:"Under Modern Eyes: Public Photography and the Images of the Nation in Brazil (1935-1945)".