Laura Rivas Gagliardi is DFG-Researcher at the Portuguese-Brazilian Institute at the Universität zu Köln. Her research project “New perspectives on post-colonial theory: On History and Knowledge in Brazilian Literary Studies” deals with the process of literary theory formation in the Brazilian post-colonial context in the 20th and 21st centuries. She was a Post-doc Researcher at the Department for Modern Languages at the University of São Paulo between June and November 2020, and has a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (2019) at Free University Berlin, where she also completed her Master of Arts in Applied Literary Studies (2013). Laura Gagliardi obtained her first Degree in Portuguese and French language and literatures at the University of São Paulo (2007).