Karina Marques is an Assistant Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses primarily on literatures of exile and Self-writing, with particular attention to testimonial, memory, and postmemory narratives in modern and contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese literatures. Adopting an interdisciplinary and gender-oriented approach, her work explores issues related to imagology, intellectual and human mobility, testimony, memory and postmemory, as well as the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. Her research is particularly concerned with the relationships between literature, memory, and history in the context of the Second World War, with an emphasis on the experiences and historical repercussions of the conflict in Brazil, Portugal, and France. In this field, she coordinates the Franco-Brazilian team of the encyclopedia project “Travessias: The Legacy of Refugees from Nazism and Fascism in Brazil (1933–2026)”, conceived and directed by Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro of the University of São Paulo (USP). She also conducts research on literary representations of immigration in the Amazon region. In this area, she investigates the dynamics of territorial occupation and intercultural coexistence in the Amazon, literary representations of rubber-boom society, and the construction of Amazonian cultural and literary identity.