PhD in Literary Studies - Comparative Literature (UFMG- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)/ UGA - University of Georgia in Athens - U.S.A.). Works both in undergraduate/post-gratuate courses at UEPB and is interested in the areas of Anglo-American Literature, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-American literature, as well as in post-colonial studies, multiculturalism, and semiothics. Has published two books on her own and organized three more in regime of co-participation, besides publishing several articles and essays both in Brazil and abroad.
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