Leandro Stoffels

Leandro Stoffels

Graduate Student

Research Interest

Queer and Feminist Theories, Brazilian Popular Music and Culture, Performance and Embodiment, Media Aesthetics and Digital Cultures, Latin American Cultural Studies, Queer Ethnomusicology

Biography

I’m a Brazilian queer scholar who draws from cultural studies, performance theory, and media analysis to explore how LGBTQIA+ people in Brazil mobilize popular music (in its sonic, bodily, social, and technological dimensions) to articulate resistance, pleasure, and belonging.

Education

  • Master in Communication, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), 2022
  • Exchange period at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), M.A. Cultures of the Global South (2021)
  • B.A. in Communication, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil), 2018