Margarida Rendeiro

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Margarida Rendeiro holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from Kings College, London, an M.A. in Anglo-American Studies and a B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Lisbon. She is a Full Researcher at the Centre for the Humanities (CHAM), at NOVA University of Lisbon. She is the Coordinator of the Research Group of Transcultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at the CHAM. Her Postdoctorate Research is entitled Memory and Utopia in Portugal after 1974: The Heirs of the Revolution of April, research she conducted as a full researcher in CHAM. She co-edited Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic (Routledge, 2019) with Federica Lupati and authored The Literary Institution in Portugal since the Thirties: An Analysis under Special Consideration of the Publishing Market (Peter Lang, 2010). She is the PI of the FCT-funded R&D Project WomenLit: Women’s Literature: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic [PTDC/LLT-LES/0858/2021]. She participates in conferences addressing topics on the Lusophone literature and culture (organized by the American and Portuguese Studies Association, Association of British and Irish Lusitanists and the Association of Contemporary Iberian Studies, among many others) and published articles in several peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of the Editorial Staff of Práticas da História: A Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past. Her research interests broach questions of women's literature, Contemporary Cultures and Literatures in (XX-XXI) in the Luso-African-Brazilian Atlantic; Forms of Cultural Resistance; Afro-European and Black Studies.

​Fields of interest
Postcolonial studies; Women Studies; Afrodescendance.

Key words
Cultural Resistance; peripheries; post-memory; women.

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