I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Literature, Theory and Culture at Purdue University. I have a Bachelor and a teaching degree in English from the Federal University in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where I also acquired a Master’s Degree in Literature. At Purdue I study Literatures in English. I am interested in post-colonial literature, especially 20th and 21st Black diasporic female authors, Environmental studies, Immigration studies, and Black Feminist studies. I am passionate about reading and writing fiction.