Jean Carlos Carniel is a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, where he teaches Portuguese and Spanish. His research examines slavery and spectrality in the Portuguese-speaking world, with a particular focus on Brazil. His broader research interests include the Gothic, horror, and the fantastic in Latin American literature and culture.
Before beginning his graduate studies at The Ohio State University, he taught language and literature at the middle and high school levels in Brazil.