Catarina Alhinha graduated in 2021 with a BA in Portuguese Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. In 2022, she received the Excellence Award for Best Graduate. Between 2022 and 2023, she was a member of the research team of the European project VAST: Values Across Space and Time, dedicated to fairy tales and digital humanities. She completed her MA in Portuguese Studies at the NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) in 2024. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Oxford, while continuing her collaboration with the research project Estranhar Pessoa at the Institute of Literature and Tradition Studies (IELT). Her main research interests include Pessoa studies, modernist and contemporary women’s writing in English and Portuguese literature. She is also a writer who enjoys combining her words with painting, photography, and theatre, notably through her artistic project Desaniversário.