ALVA MARTÍNEZ TEIXEIRO (A Coruña, 1982) is an Associate Professor (2024) —Assistant Professor, since 2012— of Brazilian Studies at the Department of Romance Literatures at School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), Coordinator of the Master in Brazilian Studies (FLUL and Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Lusophone and European Literature and Cultures (since 2022), where, since 2020, she coordinates the Research Group 3 (Brazilian Literature and Culture). She is also Foreign Associate Professor since 2021 on the Postgraduate Letters Degree Programme at the School of Humanities of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). From 2012 to 2018, she was a professor of Brazilian Literature at the Degree in Portuguese Studies at the Université Mohammed V, in Rabat, on the first BA in Portuguese Studies in the Arab world, as part of a cooperation agreement between Mohammed V University, UL and the Camões Institute. Graduated in Portuguese Philology (2005), from the University of Santiago de Compostela, she holds a Master's and PhD in Brazilian Literature, from the University of A Coruña, respectively, with the dissertation "The violence speech in Brazilian contemporary literature" (2007) and with the thesis "Hilda Hilst's literary work and the category of the obscene" (2010, Mention European Doctor and Outstanding PhD Graduate Prize). In the years 2008 and 2009, she was hired as a pre-doctoral student at the University of A Coruña. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Investigation Fellowship of Portuguese Culture for Foreigners, 2011), to carry out research on the literary work of Sophia Breyner Andresen, at the Centre for Humanistic Studies, Minho University; centre and university where she was a guest investigator (2013-2016) of the Group of Brazilian Studies in Portugal (GRES). Since 2012, she has been a collaborator investigator at the Galician Linguistic and Literary Research Group (ILLA), at the University of A Coruña; since 2014, at the Group for Advanced Brazilian Literary Studies (ELBA), at the University of Salamanca; and, since 2017, at the Iberian and Iberian-American Dialogues project from the Centre of Comparatism Studies (CEC) at the University of Lisbon. She collaborated in several competitive investigation projects and, since 2017, she has been the Principal Investigator for the CLEPUL Writer Artists and artist writers: the relationship between Literature and Art in contemporary Brazil (AL-LA). Since 2019, she is co-editor, with Paulo Ricardo Kralik Angelini, of Navigations. Portuguese Language Culture and Literatures Magazine (PUCRS / CLEPUL). Her research works, which have earned different awards and distinctions, focus on Galician and Portuguese Literature and, particularly, Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Literature, as well as the interartistic practices (Literature and Art). She published, among other monographs, the books "A pretence nostalgy for authority. A partial interpretation of The standing pig by Vicente Risco" (2007, Ramón Piñeiro Award for Essay) and "No trace of impurity. Of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's aesthetic and poetic need" (2013), as well as, already in the concrete scope of Brazilian Studies, "Maktub. Of rhetoric in Raduan Nassar's fiction" (2006) and "The inconvenient hero. Utopia and pessimism in Hilda Hilst's theatre" (2009), coordinating, with Dirk-Michael Heinnrich and Giancarlo de Aguiar, the volume "Vicente and Dora Ferreira da Silva. A poetic-philosophical calling" (2015) and editing, with Carlos Pereiro, "Machado de Assis and the mundane comedy. Five plays" (2017). In 2014, with the essay "The shadow line of a suspected zoology lesson. Of the animal and the human in Lygia Fagundes Telles' narrative", she was granted the Itamaraty Award - IV International Monograph Competition, from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.