Mr Felipe Schuery

College positions: Fellow Commoner, College Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages

University position: Associate Professor

Subject: Modern and Medieval Languages

Mr Felipe Schuery is a Senior Language Teaching Officer and teaches Portuguese at all levels, he is a College Lecturer in MML at Magdalene.

Felipe Schuery graduated in Publishing from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and worked as an editor in the Brazilian Publishing market. He has a Master’s degree in Literature and Discourse Analysis from Université Blaise-Pascal, France, where he was the Portuguese Leitor from the Instituto Camões during 2011/12. He is interested in Children’s Literature and had his first book published in October 2013: Ralf & Demi – Uma história de duas metades(Quatro Cantos). In September 2014, he became the first University of Cambridge Language Teaching Officer in Portuguese. From January 2018 he is Senior Language Teaching Officer in Portuguese.


Research Interests

  • Language learning and teaching
  • Applied linguistics
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Discourse analysis

Qualifications

  • MA Brazilian and Portuguese Studies, Université Blaise-Pascal, France
  • BA Media and Communication, Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Career/Research Highlights

  • Ralf & Demi – Uma história de duas metades (2014), Listed as one of the 30 best books for children in 2014 by Revista Crescer (Brasil).

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Ralf & Demi – Uma história de duas metades (2013), written by Felipe Schuery, illustrated by Clara Gavilan. Editora Quatro Cantos, Brasil.