Cassio de Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of World Languages and Literatures. Prior to coming to Portland State, he taught at Vanderbilt University, Dickinson College, and the University of Arizona. At Portland State, de Oliveira teaches courses in Russian language, literature, and culture, Translation Studies, and European Studies.  

De Oliveira’s research interests include Soviet literature from the 1920s and 1930s, Russian film, and translation studies. In his first book, entitled Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921–1938 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023), he analyzes the emergence of the picaresque mode in Soviet literature of the NEP era and High Stalinism. He has published articles in the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Literature, Tolstoy Studies Journal, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Slavonica, and Studies in Slavic Cultures, among other venues.

De Oliveira is currently working on his second monograph, Mark Twain's Mississippi Writings in the Soviet Imagination, a study of the reception of Mark Twain in Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century.

A native of Brazil, de Oliveira earned his undergraduate degree at Bard College, where he first started studying Russian, and his PhD at Yale University.