Bruno R. Véras

Teaching and Research Interests: Critical Video Game Studies, including its intersections with gender and race; Media Theory, with a focus on Coloniality, Information and the material cultures of the African Diasporas (Islam in Brazil); Digital Humanities and Knowledge Mobilization; Slave Narratives and their creative representations (theatre, dance, and video games); Museum Studies and Repatriation.

Courses Taught in English & Drama
ENG218H5 Interactive Storytelling and Worldmaking 
ENG263H5 Play and Games
ENG319H5 Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Video Games and Gaming Culture
ENG328H5 Writing for Games and Narrative Design

Biography
Bruno Véras is a historian and cultural producer whose work focuses on Digital Humanities, video games, media studies, and African Diaspora Studies. He has been developing multimedia digital humanities initiatives, conducting research for video game productions, and programming and curating educational projects in partnership with UNESCO and several cultural institutions in Canada, Brazil, and Nigeria. His work in the cultural industry, media production and formal scholarship received several grants and awards, such as the Antonieta de Barros for Race and Gender Equity projects Award (Brazil, 2016), the Zdenka Volavka Art-History Research Fellowship (Canada, 2020) and the YTB Los Turcos Göçü Araştırma Destek Programı (Turkyie, 2023). He is currently part of the Advisory Board of the Slavery North Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Publications

Books:
Bruno R. Véras, Viagem e Alteridade: A construção do “outro” na Rihla de Ibn Battuta - séc. XIV. Recife: Editora da Universitária da UFPE, 2013.

Selected Journal Articles:
Bruno R. Véras, Ibrahima Kankara Sani and Mariana Bracks Fonseca. “Amina: Representação de uma África pré-colonial entre Kannywood e Nollywood”, Sankofa. v. 16, n. 28: 50-72, 2023

Bruno R. Véras and Renée E. Lefebvre. “Pages of Resistance: A Multilingual Traveling Exhibition on Latin American and Caribbean Slavery and Literacy from 1835”, The iJournal, Special Issue: Difficult Memories and the Museum. v. 7, n. 3, 2022.

Bruno R. Véras and Pablo Parra. “Fugindo Novamente: Fragmentos da Memória e representações artísticas de Histórias de escravidão e liberdade”, Cadernos de História UFPE. v.13, n.13 (Dossiê Arte, Cultura e História): 20-40, 2020.

Bruno R. Véras. “A Medicina empírico-metafísica dos Tsonga do sul de Moçambique: arte médica, magia, doença e cura através da obra do missionário suíço Henri A. Junod”, Tempo Presente (UFRJ), v.3: 05-27, 2013.

Selected Book Chapter:
Bruno R. Véras, Eduardo Possidonio and Thamires Guimarães de Oliveira, “Alufás Negros da Pequena África: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (1880s-1930s)” in Thiago H. Motta (ed.). Muçulmanos africanos nos países de colonização portuguesa: África e diásporas. Campinas: Editora Unicamp, (forthcoming), 2025.

Bruno R. Véras and Mariam Elzeiny. “Enslaved Muslims in the Americas,” Martin Klein (ed.). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of the African Diasporas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Bruno R. Véras and Marta Scaglioni. “Definitions and Ideologies of Slavery and Trafficking” in M. Candido (ed.), A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire, vol. 4. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Bruno R. Véras. “The Slavery and Freedom Narrative of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World” in Vanicléia Santos (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa, vol. X, Part II. Brasília; Paris: UNESCO, 2023.

Bruno R. Véras. “A narrativa de escravidão e liberdade de Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua no mundo atlântico do século XIX” in Vanicléia Santos (ed.), História Geral da África da UNESCO, vol. X, Part II. Brasília; Paris: UNESCO, 2023.

Bruno R. Véras and Pablo Parra. “O Projeto Fragmentos da Memória como História Pública e Experiência em Artes” in J. M. Azevedo Neto (ed.). Ensino de História: novas perspectivas. Guarujá: Editora Científica, 2023.

Bruno R. Véras. “Ibn Battuta and the Bilad al-Sudan Travel, Representations and the construction of the other in the 14th century Sahel and Sahara” in Abubakar B. Sani and Ibrahim M. Jumare (eds.). Studies in Slavery Across Africa: Experiences and Modern Resurgences. Katsina: Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Press, 2021.

Bruno R. Véras and Tatiane Lima. "Linguagem e Educação Histórica" in A. Bueno, C. Campos, E. Creme, J. M. Sousa Neto, L. F. Assumpção (org.), Aprendendo História: Experiências. União da Vitória: Edições Especiais Sobre Ontens, 2019.

KMb and Scientific Magazines:
Bruno R. Véras, Mariana Bracks Fonseca and John Bella. “Where is Angola?,” Africa is a Country. 29 June, Culture, USA, 2023.

Bruno R. Véras, Mariana Bracks Fonseca and John Bella. “Onde está Angola?,” Africa is a Country. 29 June, Culture, USA, 2023.

Video Games and Artificial Intelligence Applications:
Video Game. Griô A.I. – Baquaqua. Direction: Marcos Ferreira. mobCONTENT Production. Experimental concept, educational video game. Ministry of Culture, Brazil. Secretary of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and Paulo Gustavo Law, Brazil. Role: Historical Consultancy, Research and Production, 2025.

Artificial Intelligence Application. Co-direction: Marcos Ferreira. Museum of Black Memory in IA. Artificial Intelligence, creative application and online exhibition 

Expressive Arts and Research:
Dance Performance. "M. G. Baquaqua – corpo e fé africana" [M. G. Baquaqua - Body and African faith]. Director: Raquel Medeiros and Hélio Lima, Grupo Éluz and Grupo Azagaia Production. 1° - 4° Seasons. São Paulo, Brazil. Role: Historical Consultancy and Research. Since 2017.

Theatre Performance. "Baquaqua – documento dramático extraordinário" [Baquaqua: Extraordinary Dramatic Document]. Director: Dawton Abranches Pulhez, Cia Do Pássaro - Voo e Teatro Production. 1° - 6° Seasons. São Paulo, Brazil. Role: Historical Consultancy and Research. Since 2016.

Curation and Research for Exhibitons:
Artificial Intelligence Art Exhibition. "Museu da Memória Negra em IA." Artist and Director: Marcos Ferreira, mobCONTENT. SESI Itaperuna, Brazil. Role: Researcher and Co-curator, 2025.

Graphic Art Exhibition. "Fragments of Memory Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives." Graphic Artist: Pablo Parra, Co-curator: Fernanda S. Suárez. LA&PS Research Support. Founders College, York University, Canada. Role: Director and Curator, 2019.

Experimental Drawing. "Torções.” Illustrator: Luciano Feijão. 1 Season. Museu Capixaba do Negro – MUCANE, Vitória do Espírito Santo, Brazil. Role: Historical Consultancy and Research, 2016.