Bruno Carvalho
Harvard Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Bruno Carvalho specializes in urban life and how cities change. He is the author of The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World (Princeton University Press, forthcoming in January 2026).
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Bruno Carvalho's interdisciplinary approaches tend to bridge history, literary analysis, urban design, landscape architecture, and the social sciences concerned with cities. His award-winning Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro was published in Brazil in a revised and expanded edition. He co-organized a critical edition in Portuguese of United States constitutional documents, which circulated across the Atlantic and played a role in independence movements. Carvalho is also editor of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies: The Eighteenth Century, and co-editor of Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro (2016).
