Felipe Pena

Felipe Pena is a journalist, TV showrunner, psychologist, associate professor at Fluminense Federal University at Rio de Janeiro and a well-known writer in Brazil (author of fourteen books). He holds a PhD in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a post-doctorate degree in Image Semiology from the University of Paris/Sorbonne III. His three novels have met with public and critical acclaim and are already in their fifth Brazilian edition. Felipe Pena teaches Literary Reportage and TV screenplay at Fluminense Federal University. His academic publications – such as Journalism Theory (2005) and Literary Reportage (2006) – have been adopted by several universities in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Latin America. He worked as a reporter and commentator for some of Brazil’s most important TV networks and served as sub-chancellor of a major university, Estácio de Sá. In addition to lecturing, he currently works as a screen writer and social commentator for TV Globo, the country’s largest TV network, has a weekly column in the newspaper Jornal do Brasil and is preparing a new trilogy of novels about everything that is universal in the history of Rio de Janeiro. His actual academic research at NYU goes into the field of literary reportage, focusing on specific writers and their social views.