Coordinators
Anna Viana
Anna Viana is a doctoral candidate in History and Political Cultures at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (starting in 2024). She holds a master's degree in History (2022) and a bachelor's degree in History from the same institution (2019).
She has been researching Nazism since 2019. In her master's thesis, she investigated the uses of the past in Alfred Rosenberg's work, The Myth of the Twentieth Century, analyzing the concept of history mobilized by the author and the argumentative strategies used to relate different temporalities.
More broadly, she is interested in the uses of the past, the relationships between time and history, and the debates in the theory of history and intellectual history.
Barbara Deoti
Bárbara Deoti holds a degree in History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, with a teaching qualification (2020).
Her research examines the representation of Nazism and Nazis in science fiction works and alternate history narratives in which Germany wins World War II, with an emphasis on the works of Philip K. Dick and Eric Norden.
Her interests focus on 20th-century literature, literary representations of Nazism, and the relationship between history and literature.
Maria Visconti
Maria Visconti holds a PhD in History and Political Cultures from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2023).
She holds a master's degree in History and Political Cultures from UFMG (2017), a bachelor's degree in History from the same institution (2014), and completed a university extension program for one semester at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (2013).
She has been researching Nazism since 2012. In her master's thesis, she studied the German resistance group White Rose .
Her doctoral research analyzed narratives of Nazis about themselves and the Third Reich at the Nuremberg Trials, developing a typology of discursive strategies used by the defendants to shape self-image, mitigate guilt, and escape criminal responsibility.
This thesis contributes to understanding similar patterns in postwar courts.
Currently, she researches the denazification process and the narratives of Nazi perpetrators in postwar trials.