Cristiane Côrtes holds a degree in Literature, a master’s in Literary Theory, and a doctor in Comparative Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, and is a post-doctor fellow at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto – FLUP, Portugal; she is a researcher in the study groups NEIA – Interdisciplinary Studies Nucleus of Alterity at UFMG; GELLDIS – Group of Linguistic, Literary, and Discursive Studies at CEFET MG; Research Group EduCArte – IFSULDEMINAS. She is a tenured professor of Literature and Writing at CEFET MG, campus IX. Co-editor of the critical volumes: Women in Letters: Diaspora, Memory, and Resistance. 1st ed. Viçosa: Gráfica Universidade de Viçosa, 2019; Escrevivencias: identity, gender, and violence in the work of Conceição Evaristo. 1st ed. Belo Horizonte: Idea, 2016; Afro-Brazilian Literature – Approaches in the Classroom. 1st ed. Rio de Janeiro: Pallas, 2014. She dedicates herself to research on Literature write by female authors, Afro-diasporic Literatures in Portuguese, and Literary Theory applied to the training of basic education teachers.