Leni Ribeiro Leite

Research Interests:
Latin Poetry of the Flavian Era
Rhetoric and Poetics in Latin Literature
Epideictic Genre
Latin paedagogy
Latin in Latin America
Brazilian Colonial Literature
Education
  • Ph.D. Classics; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil; 2008
  • MA in Classics; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil; 2003
  • BA and Teacher Certification; Majors: Portuguese Language and Literature; Latin Language and Literature; State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); 1999 


 

Previous Positions

Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil

2017-2021                    Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature

2009-2016                    Assistant Professor of Latin Language and Literature

Selected Publications:

Books

2026 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro; NASCIMENTO, Dreykon Fernandes. José Basílio da Gama's Brazilian Goldmines. Bloomsbury. 328p.

 
2025 MARTINI, Marcus de; LEITE, Leni Ribeiro (Ed.) . Às margens do cânone: estudos sobre Portugal e a América portuguesa. Edufes. 208p .

2019 GIESEN, Katia Regina; LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. As Cartas de Elogio de Plínio, o Jovem. (Pliny the Younger’s Letters of Praise). Edufes. 250p.

2016 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Latine Loqui: Curso Básico de Latim (Latine loqui: basic Latin course). Vitória: Edufes, 2016. 2 volumes. (Textbook developed for use in undergraduate classes)

2016 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Épica II: Ovídio, Lucano, Estácio (Epic II: Ovid, Lucan, Statius). Campinas: Editora Unicamp, 2016.

2011 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Marcial e o livro (Martial and the book). Vitória: Edufes, 2011. (Revised version of the PhD dissertation O universo do livro em Marcial.)

Book chapters

2023 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Poetry as History: the authority of Lucan as a Historian. Juliana Bastos Marques; Federico Santangelo. (Org.)  Authority and History : Ancient Models, Modern Questions, 2023, p.29-42.

2022 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro; TOFOLI, Barbara Faria. Écfrase e visualidade em Prosopopeia, de Bento Teixeira. Cleber Vinicius do Amaral Felipe; Jean Pierre Chauvin. (Org.). Ensaios sobre Prosopopeia (1601), de Bento Teixeira (Homenagem a Ivan Prado Teixeira), 2022, p. 79-10

2021 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Literary Translingualism and Neo- Latin: The Case of Latin America. Natasha Lvovich; Steve Kellman. (Org.) The Routledge Handbook of Transligualism. Routledge, 2021, p.97-110.

2021 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Active Latin in the Tropics: an Experience with Neo-Latin in Brazil. Steven Hunt; Mair E. Lloyd. (Org.). Communicative Approaches for Ancient Languages. London: Bloomsbury, 2021, v. 1, p. 91-100. 

2021 BAPTISTA, Natan Henrique Taveira; LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Revisiting Domitian: Epideictic Portraits of a Controversial Emperor. Devillers, O.; Sebastiani, B. B.,. (Org.). Sources et modéles des historiens anciens, volume 2. Bordeaux: Editions Ausonius, p. 263-284.

Peer-reviewed papers 

2025 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro; NASCIMENTO, Dreykon Fernandes. Uses of the Aeneid in (1769), by Basílio da Gama, as indices of between the epic and the tragic. Classical Receptions Journal, v. 17, p. 1-19, 2025. 
 
2024 SILVA, R.G.D.; LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Ethos and persuasion in De Rusticis Brasiliae Rebus. PHAOS (UNICAMP), v. 23, p. 1-20, 2024. 

2022 NASCIMENTO, Dreykon Fernandes ; LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. O Uraguay, de Basílio da Gama: questões retórico-políticas coloniais entre a Antiguidade e a Modernidade. Ágora, v. 24, p. 311-334, 2022.

2022 LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. NASCIMENTO, Dreykon Fernandes. A recepção do epos clássico vergiliano no poema sacro e tragicômico Eustachidos, dado como do Frei Manuel de Santa Maria Itaparica. Humanitas-Portugal, v. 1, p. 163-186, 2022.

2020 SILVA, Camilla Ferreira Paulino da; LEITE, Leni Ribeiro. Reinventing the concept of homo novus in Rome: Cicero as Horace’s role model. Topoi, v. 21, p. 602-619.