Marcos Neto de Cordova is a self-funded PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).

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Fields of interest
● Brazilian Literature, Film and Culture;
● Post-coloniality
● Neo-Materialism
● Micropolitics and Aesthetics

Research
My research examines Emicida’s AmarElo (2019) as a multimodal artistic production and micropolitical manifestation in contemporary Brazil. I analyse the album across songs, lyrics, videoclips, documentary, podcast material, interviews, and social media circulation. The project explores how sound, image, rhythm, and silence shape affect, perception, and political subjectivity. Its theoretical framework combines micropolitics, affect, decolonial thought, Black spatiality, colonial memory, and processes of territorialization and escape. Overall, the dissertation asks how AmarElo creates aesthetic and affective openings for survival, resistance, and collective transformation.

Supervisors
Prof. dr. F.W.A. Korsten
Dr. S.L.A. Brandellero
Dr. G.N.T.J. van Engelenhoven MEd

Curriculum Vitae
● 2022 - present
Leiden University - Doctor of Philosophy, PhD - Centre for Arts in Society.
● 2020 - 2021
Leiden University - Master of Arts, ResMA - Literary Studies (research).
● 2019 - 2022
Federal University of de Santa Catarina - Master's degree, MA - Linguistic and
Literary Studies.
● 2015 - 2018
Federal University of de Santa Catarina - Bachelor of Arts, BA - English Language and Literature (teaching oriented).

Scholarships
● Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS), Leiden University, 2020.
● MA Scholarship, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, Brazil, 2019.

Prizes & Awards
● Excellent Academic Performance - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2015, 2017, and 2018.

Licenses & Certifications
● Lesbevoegdheid: Eerstegraads - granted by Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap/Teaching qualification: First degree - granted by Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 2021.
● TOEFL ITP Supervisor - granted by Mastertest, 2017.
● TOEIC Bridge Supervisor - granted by Mastertest, 2017.

Teaching

● English Language and Literature at Hofstad Lyceum, Den Haag, 2025 - Present
● English Language and Literature and Process Drama at Andreas College/Pieter Groen HAVO and VWO programmes, Netherlands, 2022 - 2025.
● English Language Courses at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2016 - 2020.
● English for Academic Purposes courses, such as Oral Production; Academic Interactions; Debates; and Academic Writing; TOEFL iBT: Prep. at the Languages Without Borders programme, Brazil, 2017 - 2019.

Editing
● Associate editor at the Centre for the Arts in Society Blog, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2020 - present. 
● Associate editor at the Linguistic and Literary Studies programme newsletter, UFSC, Brazil, 2019 - 2020.

Conferences, Symposiums, Seminars
● Conference paper: "Lines of Flight and The Necropolitical Gravity: The Black Icarus Fate in the song Ismália by Brazilian Artist Emicida", at the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference, Belgrade, Croatia, 2023.
● Seminar: A(Dis)oriented Aesthetics: A Schizoanalysis of Necropolitics in Brazilian Art, Culture and Literature, at the Graduate programme English: Linguistic and Literary Studies, UFSC, Brazil 2022.
● Conference paper: “The Masculine Ideal of Nationalism in Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and The Stars”, at the International Symposium IV Jornada do NEI: Where Irish Literature, Theatre and History Meet, Brazil, 2019.
● Organised together with Souza, M. V. and Ros, J. K. M. the annual Research Festival for Literary and Cultural Studies at the Graduate programme in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies, UFSC, Brazil, 2019.

Activities