PhD student in Portuguese Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, focusing on the works of Maria Judite de Carvalho. She holds a Master’s in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, with the dissertation Coleção de lavouras: Mimesis, a personagem. As a recipient of CAPES DS and PDSE scholarships, she is currently pursuing part of her doctoral research at NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. She is also the general editor of Palimpsesto, the academic journal of the Postgraduate Program in Letters at UERJ, and is one of the co-editors of the book José Saramago e as escritas de si. Her research areas include contemporary Portuguese literature, women’s authorship, feminist and gender studies, transgression, and themes of silence and silencing.