Biography

Dr. Luiz Valle Junior holds a PhD in Law from Birkbeck, University of London. He was originally trained as an international political scientist at the Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and, later, at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), in Brazil.

He is interested in international human rights law and gay and lesbian activism, queer theory and other theories of deviance, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy.

Research

Valle Junior, Luiz (2023). ‘What Does Queer IR Want? A queer psychoanalytic critique’, International Studies Quarterly 67 (3).

Valle Junior, Luiz (2022). ‘Desire and its Rule: Gender Trouble, the Phallus, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis’, Journal of Psychosocial Studies 15 (3), 187-200.

Valle Junior, Luiz (2020). ‘Lacanian Ethics, the Psychoanalytic Group, and the Question of Queer Sociality’, Interalia, 15, 34-50.

Sganzerla, Anor; Valle Junior, Luiz (2017). ‘Properly Sexed, Properly Reproductive: Sexual and reproductive rights and the rhetoric of the new Brazilian conservatism’, Revista Ártemis, 23 (1), 100-112.