He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American literature (Spanish and Portuguese) from Washington University in St Louis, MO. He studies Latin American intellectual history, literature, cinema, and the atre. His book La modernidad refractada: pensamiento, creación y resistencia en la historia intelectual de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay (1900-1935) was published in 2019 by Editorial Cuarto Propio (Santiago de Chile). The book shows how Latin American intellectuals reclaimed contested spaces in the struggle for political and cultural power. Dr. Aguiar Malosetti’s current research project has been selected to participate in the 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar titled “The Making of Modern Brazil.”