Gustavo Procópio Furtado teaches Latin American cultural studies and cinema at Duke University. His research focuses on Latin American literature and cinema, ethnographic and Indigenous filmmaking, and issues related to media theory, cultural difference, and ecology. He is the author of Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019), which received the Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities from the Latin American Studies Association, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Brazilian Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2026).

Gustavo Procópio Furtado enseña estudios culturales latinoamericanos y cine en Duke University. Sus temas de investigación se centran en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos, el cine etnográfico e indígena, y en cuestiones relacionadas con la teoría de los medios, la diferencia cultural, y la ecología. Es autor de Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019), que recibió el Premio Antonio Candido al Mejor Libro en Humanidades otorgado por la Latin American Studies Association, y coeditor de The Oxford Handbook of Brazilian Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2026).