Marinela Freitas Editor

Ana Luísa Amaral is a professor at the University of Porto. Her main areas of research are comparative poetics, feminist and queer studies. She has edited several books, including a Portuguese Dictionary of Feminist Criticism (with Ana Gabriela Macedo, 2010) and Novas Cartas Portuguesas entre Portugal e o Mundo (with Marinela Freitas, 2014). She has also translated poets such as John Updike and Emily Dickinson and her poetry is being translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa.
Ana Paula Ferreira is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her main research interest is the twentieth-century Portuguese novel, focusing on women writers, feminisms and nationalisms; «race», racisms and colonialisms; psychoanalysis, deconstruction and ethics. Amongst her publications are Para Um Leitor
Ignorado: Ensaios sobre O Vale da Paixão e Outras Ficções de Lídia Jorge (2009) and Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times: The Iberian Peninsula (2002).
Marinela Freitas is undertaking postdoctoral research on posthumanism at the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, at the University of Porto. She has published on comparative literature, Portuguese and North American literatures, feminist studies, queer theory and utopian studies. Amongst her publications are including Emily Dickinson e Luiza Neto Jorge: Quantas Vozes? (2014) and Utopia Matters (with Fátima Vieira, 2005).