Quem é este cara?

Rodrigo é um estudante de línguas modernas & antigas, bacharel em Letras e História, pesquisador das sociedades e culturas do passado e um apaixonado por música (de todos os tipos – do samba ao rock, além de Mozart & opera).

Tradutor, professor aficionado por cultura,  rato de biblioteca & um nadador dedicado.

Interesses: leitura, música, desenho, a NATUREZA & a ARTE, história, filologia, Brasil & o Mundo, esportes ( = bike & natação). Rodrigo ama café.

(Créditos da foto acima: tirada por tradutorgarciagaray no Serpentine, Hyde Park, em Londres, 2012)

This picture was taken at a coffee shop in Cuzco, 2013 (not really sure what it is, or who painted it… still, it’s quite lovely, innit?)

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Who is this bloke?

Rodrigo is a student of modern & ancient languages, a Languages and History graduate (BA), and a researcher of societies and cultures of the past, a lover of all kinds of music, Mozart & opera.

Rodrigo is a translator, a culture-vulture teacher, & a bookworm, as well as a committed swimmer.

From April 2021 to March 2022, Rodrigo received an undergraduate research grant (SEAD-UFRGS) to investigate Latin manuscripts and Medieval Palaeography, and to assist in the development of a Medieval Palaeography MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

In 2023, he was one of the team leaders in charge of producing the MOOC Democratising History: the Challenges of Writing History for Large Audiences, a Continuing Education Project thought up by a Public History professor from UFRGS and put into practice by a group of History undergraduates.

Between May and June 2024, during the tragic floods that hit RS (the southernmost state in Brazil), he worked alongside the volunteers of the project Residue is Resource ESEFID. Together, they produced 4 tons of compost from the residues of the meals served at the University Restaurant for the people sheltered on the Olympic Campus.

Between 2023-2025, Rodrigo received an undergraduate research grant (PIBIC CNPq), having taken part, alongside other students and professors of History, in a project that produced and published two books in the fields of Theory of History, Historiography and the Political Uses of the Past.

Between January 2024 and December 2025, Rodrigo took part in the Free Lane Programme at the Swimming Centre ESEFID UFRGS (swimming free of charge for students, employees and professors), working as an organiser and a lifeguard.

Interests: reading, music, drawing, NATURE & the ARTS, history, philology, Brazil & the World, sports (= biking & swimming). Rodrigo loves coffee (with a bit of sugar).

(Photo credit: All photographs on this site have been taken by tradutorgarciagaray. The photograph above was taken at the Serpentine,  Hyde Park, London, 2012).

Papyrus of Hw-nfr,
kept at the British Museum, in London, England – photo by tradutorgarciagaray