University of São Paolo Professor Bruno Gomide, a leading Brazilian expert on Russian literature and culture and a translator of Russian writers into Portuguese, will present “The Russian Novel in Brazil,” based on his study DA ESTEPE À CAATINGA: O Romance Russo no Brasil (1887-1936). The event will take place Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. in Lyons Hall, room 207. His lecture will be in English.  Sponsor: The Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures.