Dr Margarida Rendeiro

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Margarida Rendeiro is a full researcher at the Center for the Humanities (CHAM), FCSH-NOVA Lisbon and an Assistant Professor at the Lusíada University of Lisbon. She gained a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King’s College, London (2008). Her research broaches questions related to contemporary cultural and literary studies in Portuguese-speaking countries, women’s and Black studies. She co-edited Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities (Routledge, 2019) and authored The Literary Institution in Portugal: An Analysis under special consideration of the Publishing Market (Peter Lang, 2010). She is the Principal Researcher of the Project Women’s Literature: Memories, Peripheries and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (PTDC/LLT-LES/0858/2021), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal.