The House, the World, and the Theatre

Geraldo Magela Cáffaro received a PhD degree in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and is a Professor of Literatures in English at Unimontes (Montes Claros), Brazil. He is the author of Fictionalizing Acts in Writers’ Diaries: Hawthorne’s American Notebooks (2010), and has also published several chapters and articles on nineteenth-century literature, including “‘From Beyond the Grave:’ The Posthumous Trope in Nathaniel Hawthorne, Machado de Assis, and Henry James,” in Henry James Today (2014) and “Quid pro Quo or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe” (co-authored with Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá) in Adapting Poe: Re-imaginings in Popular Culture (2012). In addition to the nineteenth century, his areas of interest include paratexts, literary theory, comparative literature, new historicism, and deconstruction.