Since finishing my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University of Michigan, 2022), I have been working as a faculty member in the Lower Peninsula. Before finding my new roots in the region, I had worked and studied in South Florida, having received my B.A. and M.A. in English Literature (Florida International University, 2012/2015). Both my U.S. homes have taught me to trust and cultivate the unexpected ways diverse cultures and communities converge to create common ground in the pursuit of material and intellectual well-being.

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and I moved to South Florida right before college. Even before coming to the U.S. and imagining the many moments in which my sense of self would undergo translation in the coming decades, I had been interested in understanding the intricate yet instinctively resolute philosophy of belonging as an outcast.

Nowadays, those lifelong questions about history and literature have led my research and pedagogy to explore historical continuities in genres and traditions of storytelling from the 18th century to the present.