Valter Sinder

Valter Sinder is an Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Professor Sinder received his PhD from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 1992. His work was dedicated to the Theory of Literature, with a focus on the narrative and historical aspects.

Since completing his PhD, Valter Sinder has published several papers and has taught courses focused on the narrative and its relationship to identity building. He also participated in the Pensamento Social Brasileiro (Brazilian Social Thought) group of ANPOCS (the Brazilian Post-Graduate Association in Social Sciences), where he also presented a number of papers surrounding the idea of human and social sciences and reflections on Brazil and the problems that the country has been facing as it tries to identify itself as a modern nation.

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