Martina Altalef is a PhD candidate in Comparative Studies with a scholarship awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. She develops her research, titled “Capillary Portraits. Hair and the Fabrication of Identity in Contemporary Literature and Visual Arts”, under the supervision of Professor Ângela Fernandes (University of Lisbon) and Professor Catarina Martins (University of Coimbra), and is a trainee member of the DIIA cluster – Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues. She is part of the editorial team of Revista Transas. Literaturas y Artes de América Latina (National University of San Martín, Argentina) and works as a literary translator. She is also a member of the Latin American Studies Association.
Areas of Research
Literaturas e Artes da América Latina
Literaturas e Artes da Diáspora Africana
Estudos Feministas
Estudos Pós-coloniais
Select Publications
Altalef, Martina. 2025. "Autofiction, reparation and possible futures for a capillary community: Esse cabelo, by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida". In Possible Worlds: Environment, Community, Heterotopia. London: University College London, UCL Press. Under revision.
Altalef, Martina. 2025. “Memórias da Plantação. Episódios de racismo quotidiano, de Grada Kilomba”. Dédalus 27/28: 657-661. https://revistadedalus.pt/ddalus/index.php/dedalus
Altalef, Martina (tradução e prefácio). 2024. Pepetela, Predadores. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Eudeba.
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Altalef, Martina. 2022. "Cuerpos, sexos y géneros en narrativas de mujeres negras del Sur. Diálogos entre escrituras contemporáneas de Brasil y Mozambique". In Producción de conocimientos en tiempos de crisis. Dialogando desde la horizontalidad, 114-126. Guadalajara, México: Universidad de Guadalajara & Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS).
Altalef, Martina. 2021. "Hiding in Plain Sight. Black Women, the Law and the Making of a White Argentine Republic, by Erika Edwards". Mora 27: 199-202. http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/mora/article/view/11108/9989
