Research Area Coordinator / Publication Management Dr. Bruna Della Torre

Bruna Della Torre received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Universidade de São Paulo, where she was also a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. In 2023, she was awarded a Horkheimer Fellowship at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt. She was a visiting scholar at Duke University, Humboldt Universität, Akademie der Künst (Berlin) and Goethe Universität and a Lecturer at Universidade de Brasília. Bruna has teaching experience in higher education in literary theory and comparative literature, sociology, and philosophy. Her research focuses mainly on the Frankfurt School, Marxist theory, Feminist Studies, Fascism studies, Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature, and Latin American Critical Theory.
 

Bruna’s work appeared in Rethinking Marxism, Cultural Dynamics, Mediations: Journal of The Marxist Literary Group, Revista Chilena de Literatura, Latin American Perspectives, Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Pandaemonium Germanicum, among others. Her book Vanguarda do Atraso ou Atraso da Vanguarda? Oswald de Andrade e os teimosos destinos do Brasil. São Paulo, Alameda Editorial. [Backwardness of the Vanguard or Vanguard of the Backwardness? Oswald de Andrade and the Stubborn Destinies of Brazil] investigate Brazilian modernism, especially the aesthetic and political concept of “Anthropophagy” and its relation to peripheric societies.
Bruna is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Crítica Marxista (Brasil), where she served as executive editor from 2018 to 2023 and of Constelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica. At Capas, Bruna is a research associate and part of the editing team of the Jornaul Apocalyptica. Currently, she is researching the culture industry and its impact on politics and society. 

Monograph
Della Torre, Bruna 2019: Vanguarda do Atraso ou Atraso da Vanguarda? Oswald de Andrade e os teimosos destinos do Brasil. São Paulo: Alameda Editorial. [eng. Backwardness of the Vanguard or Vanguard of the Backwardness? Oswald de Andrade and the Stubborn Destinies of Brazil] 

Peer-reviewed articles
• 2023. Roberto Schwarz, Machado de Assis e o problema do realismo [Roberto Schwarz, Machado de Assis and the issue of Realism]. Letterature d'America, 195, p. 63-84.
• 2023. Culture Industry, a (political) research agenda for Critical Theory. Global Dialogue. Magazine of the International Sociological Association, 13(3).
• Indústria cultural. O conceito e sua atualidade em 7 teses [Culture industry. The concept and its relevance in 7 theses]. Revista do Centro de Pesquisa e Formação, 176-193.
• 2023. Romance e reificação: Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno e Fredric Jameson. À ocasião do centenário de História e Consciência de Classe [Romance and Reification: Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, and Fredric Jameson. On the occasion of the centenary of History and Class Consciousness]. Anuário Lukács, 10 (1), 131-159.
• 2022. Culture Industry, Subjectivity, and Domination: Adorno and the Radio Project. Mediations - Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, 35: 3-34.
• 2022. 22 cem anos depois: Centenary of Week of Modern Art: The Anthropophagic Utopia Survives, more Current than ever. Brazilian Research and Studies Center BraS, 3: 1-10.
• 2022. Aquellos años veinte en Brasil: good old days or bad new ones? [Those 20s in Brazil: good old days or bad new ones? ] Revista chilena de literatura, 106: 285-316.
• 2022. Nicht mitmachen! and Weitermachen!: Rereading Adorno and Marcuse on Theory and Praxis. (Co-author: Eduardo Altheman). Rethinking Marxism, 34: 63-80.
• 2021. Dialética da desumanização [Dialectic of dehumanization]. Sociologia & Antropologia, 11: 195-199.
• 2020. Com quantos paus se faz uma canoa? Notas sobre a personalidade autoritária. Crítica Marxista. Sao Paulo, 50: 103-110. [How many swallows make a summer? Notes on The Authoritarian Personality.
• 2020. Abra-te Sésamo: a teoria crítica de Gabriel Cohn. [Open sesame: the critical theory of Gabriel Cohn]. Revista Sociologia & Antropologia. Rio de Janeiro, 10: 449-465.
• 2019. Neoliberal unfoldings of Lulism. (Co-authors: Eduardo Altheman; Vladimir Puzone). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Sobre as Américas, 13: 271-297.
• 2019. Abaixo da superfície: Adorno e o cinema revisitado [Below the Surface: Adorno and Cinema Reconsidered]. Novos Estudos CEBRAP. São Paulo, 38: 477-493.
• 2019. Adorno, leitor de Marx [Adorno reads Marx]. Revista Sociologia & Antropologia, 9: 519-541.
• 2019. Modelos críticos: Antonio Candido e Roberto Schwarz leem Oswald de Andrade [Critical models: Antonio Candido and Roberto Schwarz read Oswald de Andrade]. Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 74: 178-196.
• 2018. Socialização e dominação: a Escola de Frankfurt e a cultura [Socialization and domination: Frankfurt School and culture]. Co-author: Eduardo Altheman] Tempo Social, 30: 123-141
• 2016. Eles devoraram tudo: primitivismo, barbárie e as vanguardas [They have devoured everything: primitivism, barbarism and the avant-gardes]. Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 64: 296-309.
• 2016. Em rota de colisão: Adorno, Marcuse e os Movimentos Estudantis [On collision course: Adorno, Marcuse and the students’ movements]. Ideias. Campinas, 7: 37-57.
• 2014. Benjamin leitor de Brecht: cinema e distanciamento [Benjamin reads Brecht: Cinema and Estrangement]. Pandaemonium Germanicum, São Paulo, vol. 37-52.
• 2012. Desventuras da subversão: Oswald de Andrade, o Teatro Oficina e os dois momentos de O Rei da Vela [Misadventures of subversion: Oswald de Andrade, Teatro Oficina and the two moments of O Rei da Vela]. Proa - Revista de Antropologia e Arte, 4: 85-99.
 

Book Chapters
• Forthcoming in 2024. 21st Century One-dimensionality: Big Technological Rationality, Digital Culture Industry, and Platform Postmodernity. In: Altheman, Eduardo; Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry; Sid Simpson (Ed.)The Marcusean Mind, Routledge.
• 2023. „Marxismo feminista“ [Feminist Marxism]. In: Camila Galetti; Jéssica Melo Rivetti (Eds.) Feminismos em Movimento. São Paulo: Luas, 270-278.
• 2023. “The Woman with the Pink shotgun: Apocalypse in Bolsonaro’s Brazil”. In: Jenny Stümer (Ed.). Worlds Ending – Ending Worlds. Berlin: DeGruyter, 187-208.• 2023. Macunaíma: la epopeya negativa de Mário de Andrade [Macunaíma: the Negative Epic of Mário de Andrade]. In: Mónica González García; Sarah Moody; Astrid Santana Fernández de Castro (Eds.). Las fracturas del mármol -
Heroicidades latinoamericanas a contrapelo. Havana/Buenos Aires: CLACSO; La Habana Editorial, p. 159-183.
• 2023. Classe ou massa? Freud, Adorno e Marx. [Class or Mass? Freud, Adorno, and Marx] In: Raphael Seabra; Stefan Klein (Eds). Marx 200 Anos - questões, debates e vigência nas Ciências Sociais. Brasília: Zouk.
• 2022. Dos veces cultura y política [Culture and Politics twice]. In: Mónica Gonzalez Garcia; Horst Nitschak. (Eds.). Diálogos Sur-Sur: década de 1960 y transformaciones culturales en Brasil y las Américas. Homenaje a Roberto Schwarz. Santiago de Chile: Universitaria, 2022, 161-182.
• 2022. Cultura y Política, ayer y hoy [Culture and politics, now and then]. Entrevista a Roberto Schwarz. In: Mónica Gonzalez Garcia; Horst Nitschak. (Eds.). Diálogos Sur-Sur: década de 1960 y transformaciones culturales en Brasil y las Américas. Homenaje a Roberto Schwarz. Santiago de Chile: Universitaria, 281-292.
• 2022. Karl Marx na metrópole do capital [Karl Marx in the Metropolis of Capital] (Co-author: Vladimir Puzone) In: Daniel Lago Monteiro; John Milton; Júlia Braga Neves; Marcelo Pen Parreira; Nilce M. Pereira; Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass. (Eds.). Vitorianos. Contradições e desdobramentos. São Paulo: LiberArs, 59-78.
• 2019. Cultura e Política, ontem e hoje. Entrevista com Roberto Schwarz [Culture and Politics, now and then: Interview with Roberto Schwarz. In: Roberto Schwarz. (Ed.). Seja como for: entrevistas, retratos e documentos. São Paulo: Editora 34, 314-327.
• 2017. Appendix: Interview with Bruna Della Torre de Carvalho Lima and Eduardo Altheman Camargo Santos. In: Darrell P. Arnold; Andreas Michel. (Eds.). Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg. Springer International Publishing, 319-326.

Special Issue Guest Editor
• 2021. Marxismo e feminismo: perspectivas políticas para a sociologia.
Apresentação do dossiê Marxismo, Feminismo e a Teoria social [Marxism and feminism: political perspectives for sociology] (Co-author: Giovanna Marcelino). Plural, 28: 5-10.

Peer-Reviewed Film and Theater Reviews
• 2019. Crítica da tragédia, crítica da farsa: comentário sobre a encenação da peça Roda Viva pelo teatro Oficina [Criticism of tragedy, criticism of farce: commentary on the staging of the play Roda Viva by Oficina theater]. Revista Café com Sociologia, 8: 14-25.
• 2016. Criticism and Condescension: The Triumph of the Poor in ‘The Second Mother. Latin American Perspectives, 43: 141-143.

Interviews
• 2023. 100 anos do Instituto de Pesquisa Social - Entrevista com Martin Jay [100 years of the Institute for Social Research - Interview with Martin Jay]. Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã, 28(3), 111-124.
• 2023. Entrevista com Nancy Fraser [Interview with Nacy Fraser]. Co-authored with Nathalie Brsssiani. Margem Esquerda, 41: 11-35.
• 2022. The holy family: Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism in the Current Far-Right: Interview with Melinda Cooper. Cultural Dynamics, 34 (3): 242–250.
• 2020. Entrevista com Cinzia Arruzza e Tithi Bhattacharya [Interview with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya]. Crítica Marxista, 24: 147-160.
• 2020. Neo-backwardness in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (Interview with Roberto Schwarz). New Left Review, 123: 25-38.
• 2020. Weiterdenken. Uma entrevista com Michael Schwarz. [Weiterdenken. Interview with Michael Schwarz]. Dissonância, 3: 1-10.
• German version: „Ich überlasse Ihnen das zum Weiterdenken“ – Die Vorträge von Theodor W. Adorno - Interview mit Michael Schwarz. Akademia der Kuenste 

Website
• 2020. Os labirintos de Marx. Entrevista com Michael Heinrich [Marx’s mazes: interview with Michael Heinrich]. Crítica Marxista, 50: 275-288.
• 2018. Escola de Frankfurt, Foucault e o neoliberalismo. Entrevista com Thomas Lemke [Frankfurt School, Foucault, and Neoliberalism. Interview with Thomas Lemke]. Tempo Social, 29 (1): 305-313.

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