Dr. Savio Lopes
Biography
Dr. Savio Lopes earned his Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (USP) in the field of Cultural Studies and holds a master’s degree from the University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), with a focus on Language and Cultural Memory. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication.
He teaches Mass Media & Society, Communication Theory, Contemporary Topics in Communications and other related courses at UCW.
Expertise and Experience
His scholarly work centers on materialist cultural criticism, postwar American culture, New Journalism, the Beat Generation and countercultural movements. He is also interested in technology, media and education. Some of his research has been published in books, edited volumes and academic journals. He has received research funding from Capes (Brazil’s Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) and has presented his work at international conferences on culture, media and education.
Dr. Lopes has extensive experience in academic advising at McGill University and has taught at multiple institutions, developing innovative and participatory teaching methods tailored to students from diverse backgrounds and needs.
Beyond academia, Lopes is a writer and musician, and one half of the experimental music duo The Radio Droids.
Publications and Scholarly Activity
Lopes, Savio. (2024). Dialectics between order and disorder in the American Way of Life. In B. Ricupero, L. Belinelli, R. Marino (Eds.), Essays on Roberto Schwarz (pp. 131-150). EDUEPB.
Lopes, Savio. (2019) War reminiscences in On the Road and The Catcher in the Rye. REVELL: Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS, 3 (23), 391-407. https://periodicosonline.uems.br/index.php/REV/article/view/3971
Lopes, Savio. (2017). The Challenging of Impersonality in Jack Kerouac’s Poetic Prose. Caderno Cespuc de Pesquisa: Série Ensaios, 1, 138-149. http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoscespuc/article/view/14227
Lopes, Savio. (2016). The fox and the perceptive: the black Cherokee woman in The Subterraneans, by Jack Kerouac. LitCult: Revista Mulheres e Literatura, 17. https://litcult.net.br/a-raposa-e-o-perceptivo-a-mulher-negra-cherokee-em-the-subterraneans-de-jack-kerouac-savio-augusto-lopes-da-silva-junior/
Lopes, Savio. (2016). Bebop Culture in The Subterraneans. In G. Andrade, R. Sauerbonn, J. C. Zacharias. (Eds.), Geração Beat. (pp. 47-75). Saraguina Films e Jurubeba Productions. Available online: https://issuu.com/saraguinafilmes/docs/cat__logo_-_mostra_gera____o_beat
Lopes, Savio. (2016). Counterculture and Countermemory in the Beat Literature: A study of 'The Subterraneans', by Jack Kerouac. 1st ed. Saarbrücken: Novas Edições Acadêmicas.
Lopes, Savio; Silva, Francis. (2014). Individual dimension of memory in Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground. Peri, 6, 223-236. https://ojs.sites.ufsc.br/index.php/peri/article/view/917/
Lopes, Savio. (2014). Intertextual memory in the film adaptation of On the Road. Leitura (UFAL), 1, 187-211. https://seer.ufal.br/index.php/revistaleitura/article/view/1462/0?articlesBySimilarityPage=1
Awards
CAPES Graduate Fellowships (MA 2012–2014; PhD 2015–2019)
Teaching Development Fellowships (University of São Paulo, 2016 & 2017)
