João Víctor Lima Ferreira Dutra

PhD candidate in Language Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), he holds a Master’s degree in Language Studies (2023) and a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese/Spanish Language and Literature from the same institution. Within his graduate program, he serves as a student representative and is a member of both the Scholarship Committee and the Self-Assessment Committee.

He was awarded the FAPERJ “Aluno Nota 10” scholarship during his Master’s and, subsequently, also during his PhD, in recognition of his academic excellence. He is currently participating in the FAPERJ Nota 10 International Mobility Program, through which he is undertaking a six-month research stay at the Instituto da Lingua Galega of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, where he takes part in meetings and classes with his supervisor, researcher Henrique Monteagudo.

He has published articles and book chapters in Brazil in the fields of glottopolitics and applied linguistics. His ongoing doctoral research examines how digital influencers (considered glottopolitical agents) operate on social media by disseminating a normative tradition of Brazilian Portuguese. In particular, he analyzes whether the rules promoted by the influencers under study diverge from the positions advocated by grammarians and linguists in the country.