espanolLa recuperacion del pasado y el trabajo en torno a las experiencias vividas, individuales y colectivas, constituyen temas actuales y proliferan saberes, instituciones y metodos para rescatar, organizar y documentar la memoria. En la tradicion academica brasilena existe un documento de naturaleza autobiografica, el memorial academico, en el que el docente universitario presenta, para la progresion de su carrera, una narrativa de su recorrido personal, intelectual y profesional. Como forma de escritura el memorial academico es condicionado por una tradicion institucional, presentando diferentes niveles de subjetivacion a lo largo del tiempo y caracterizandose como uno de los raros momentos en que se presenta como legitima la palabra del academico sobre si mismo. Pretendemos apuntar las particularidades de esa manifestacion de escritura sobre si mismo, el memorial academico, buscando discutir las opciones de los docentes por modelos narrativos que enfatizan la formalidad, cartesianos, o que adoptan mayor subjetividad, hermeneuticos EnglishThe recovery of the past and work around individual and collective lived experiences are current issues while progressively spread knowledge, institutions and methods for collecting, organizing and documenting memory. In the Brazilian academic tradition there is an autobiographical document, the academic memoir, in which the university lecturer presents the progression of his or her career, under the format of a narrative focused on personal, intellectual and professional dimensions. As a form of academic, formal writing, the academic memoir is framed by institutional traditions, presenting different levels of subjectivity over time and it ischaracterized as one of the rare moments in which the word of academics is presented as a legitimated exercise in itself. This paper discusses the main traits of these narrative documents, stressing the influence of the narrative turn and documenting its contents and discursive styles. We propose to distinguish two narrative models of the academic memoirs: one more objective and distant, the another more subjective and hermeneutic