Jorge Victor de Araújo Souza
Assistant Professor of History of the Americas
PhD in Social History (UFF, 2011)

Jorge Victor de Araújo Souza

Lines of research

Thematic Clusters

Intellectual History, the History of Ideas, and the History of Science
Religiosities, powers and sensibilities

Advising subjects


Modern regimes of visuality;
Representations of colonial alterities;
Political uses of images;
Aesthetics and politics: visual arts, cinema, literature;
The Gothic and other “negative poetics” in modernity.

Ongoing Research

World in engravings: geographic spaces in books from the Rare Works Collection of the National Library (c.1490-c.1790)
Emotional communities? in Peru: comparison of narratives from the chronicles of religious orders (16th-17th centuries)
Is time a fertile womb?: teaching history with appropriations of the ?colonial past? in contemporary languages

Selected Publications

De selvagens a bons súditos: índios nas representações imagéticas da entrega do Novo Mundo (séculos XVI-XVIII). Revista de História da Unisinos, v. 22, p. 347-359, 2018.

Mnemosyne na escola: ensaio acerca do uso de documentos imagéticos no ensino de história. Interfaces da Educação, v. 9, p. 184-210, 2018.

Especialistas em ‘bem morrer’: causa mortis, rituais e hierarquias em um mosteiro do Rio de Janeiro colonial. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos (Impresso), v. 20, p. 537-552, 2013.

“Monarquia mais dilatada que se viu no mundo”: considerações sobre dimensão de domínios e imaginação política em frontispícios no império espanhol. Topoi (ONLINE): Revista de História, v. 14, p. 390-416, 2013.

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