He is the author of As promessas da história: Discursos proféticos e assimilação no Brasil colonial (EDUSP, 2003) and the editor of Ligeiros traços: Escritos de juventude (Editora José Olympio Ltda., 2007). He is currently working on a book project that deals with representations of male friendship, rivalries, and interracial sociability in fiction and journalism written in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. Portions of this research have been published as “Ordem e tradição: A conversão regionalista de José Lins do Rego” (Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros), “As amizades heteróclitas de Nestor Vítor (Cruz e Sousa e Lima Barreto)” (Revista Escritos), and “Othello's Pathologies: Reading Adolfo Caminha with Lombroso” (Comparative Literature).