Eduardo Neiva
Eduardo Neiva (born 1950 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a professor at UAB's Department of Communication Studies and the founding director of the university's graduate program in communication studies.
Neiva grew up in Rio de Janeiro the son of a vice president at the national bank. His first career interests were in the arts and graphic design. He completed a course in typographic design and print production at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1973, then returned to Brazil to become an instructor at the College of Communication Estácio de Sá.
His growing interest in the theoretical underpinnings of communication led him to earn a bachelor's degree in social communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ) while working as a professor of theory at the College of Communication Hélio Alonso. After earning his degree in 1979, Neiva became an assistant professor in the Department of Social Communication at the PUC/RJ, as well. He continued to study, earning masters in communication studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1982.
In 1984 he was made the director of the College of Communication Hélio Alonso and, a year later, added a professorship at the Federal University, where he began work on his Ph.D. dissertation on "The Theoretical Object of Communication", completed in 1989. At the same time he was the chair of the communication department at PUC/RJ.
In 1990, Neiva won a Fulbright Fellowship to continue post-doctoral research on culture and communication at Indiana University. Soon later he accepted a U. S. Information Service grant to continue his research at UAB, where he served as a visiting professorship in Intercultural Communication. In 1993 he became an assistant professor at UAB, teaching several undergraduate and graduate-level courses. He was named director of the university's Communication Research Center in 1995, and became a full professor in 2000. In 2003 he founded the Graduate Program in Communication Management and was promoted to Associate Chair of the Department of Communication Studies.
Neiva serves on the editorial board of De Signis (the journal of the Latin American Federation of Semiotics). He is a Fellow of the International Institute of Communicology and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Center of Semiotics and Communication. He has authored scores of journal article and presented dozens of papers at academic conferences. He is also the author of several books.
Neiva is married (Maria) and has one son, Eduardinho.
Books
- Neiva, Eduardo (2007) Communication Games: The Semiotic Foundation of Culture. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110190465
- Neiva, Eduardo (1999) Mythologies of Vision: Image, Culture, and Visuality. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 0820441848
- Neiva, Eduardo, Joaquim Nepomuceno and Monica Rector, editors (1999) Comunicação e Modernidade: Um Estudo Discursivo. Belém do Pará, Brazil: Centro
de Letras e Artes/Universidade Federal do Pará
- Neiva, Eduardo (1999) O Racionalismo Crítico de Karl Popper. Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Alves.
- Neiva, Eduardo and Monica Rector, editors (1997) Comunicação na Era Pósmoderna. Petrópolis: Vozes
- Neiva, Eduardo (1996) O Que Aprender com Antigas Catástrofes: Comunicação de
Massa,Técnica e Sociedade. São Paulo: Editora Ática
- Neiva, Eduardo (1992) Um Inferno de Espelhos: Comunicação, Cultura e Mundo Natural. Rio
de Janeiro: Rio Fundo.
- Neiva, Eduardo (1991) Comunicação:Teoria e Prática Social. São Paulo: Brasiliense.
- Neiva, Eduardo (1986) Sapatilhas de Satã. São Paulo: Editora Max Limonad.
- Neiva, Eduardo (1986) A Imagem. Sao Paulo: Editora Ática.
- Neiva, Eduardo (1983) Táticas do signo: semiótica e ideologia. Rio de Janeiro: Achiamé/SOCII.
References
- Mora, Vivian (November 2007) "Eduardo Neiva: A Rio de Janero [sic] "high note" on the UAB campus." Birmingham magazine. Vol. 47, No. 11. p. 264
External links
- Eduardo Neiva profile at uab.edu