About
Between the library and the wardrobe
I’m Rafael Hett, a researcher in literature and fashion and a French teacher, born in São Paulo and based in Montréal since 2024.
I studied Portuguese and French languages and literatures at the Federal University of Pelotas, graduating with honors, and gave my first talk on fashion in Balzac there in 2015. In São Paulo, I then completed a postgraduate specialization in fashion communication and production, and a master’s at the University of São Paulo on Japanese fashion and aesthetics, with a thesis on the brand ANREALAGE. Studies in philosophy, and research in phenomenology at the Université de Montréal, gave me tools to think about the body. Today, my work reads literature through clothing and the fashion system.
I have taught French and literature since 2016, at university, at the Alliance Française de São Paulo and online, and I give courses and lectures on fashion and literature, including a course on the sociology of fashion at the University of São Paulo. I also run the Cercle des imaginaires, a monthly reading circle.
Education
2023–2026
BA in Philosophy, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo
2022
MA in Language, Literature and Culture, University of São Paulo. Thesis on techno-animism in the fashion of ANREALAGE
2021-2021
Postgraduate Specialization in Fashion Communication and Production (360 hours), Centro Universitário FMU, São Paulo. Thesis on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Anthropocene and the future of fashion in the work of ANREALAGE
2018
BA in Languages and Literature (Portuguese/French) with honors, Federal University of Pelotas
Distinctions
2026
Arsène-David Scholarship, Université de Montréal
2019
1st place, Senac Staff Lab challenge (communication, fashion and Japan), Senac São Paulo
2018
Outstanding Undergraduate Student, Federal University of Pelotas
2016
1st place in Linguistics, Literature and Arts, XXV Conference for Early-Stage Researchers, UFPel
Languages
Portuguese (native), French and English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate).
Get in touch
For lessons, talks, research or the reading circle. I reply in French, English or Portuguese.
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