Miriam de Sousa is a collaborating researcher in the ISTRES-Iberian Studies Reference project, at the Center for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon. In 2023, she completed her PhD in Comparative Studies (PhDCOMP) with the project entitled Lusofonia and Francophonie: (un)familiar narratives in postcolonial literatures. Between 2017 and 2022, she was an FCT PhD fellow of the PHDCOMP program. In 2019, she was invited by the organization of the Summer School of the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, to lead a discussion group on postcolonial literature and world literature. In 2020, she was a guest researcher at KU Leuven University. She was culture advisor at the Portuguese Embassy in Madrid from September 2015 to August 2016. She is a member of the Centre for Comparative Studies, was part of the executive coordination team of the Comparative Literature-World Research Project, and is currently part of the Travel and Utopia subgroup of the LOCUS - Space, Places and Landscapes group.
Areas of research
Comparative Literature
Postcolonial and decolonial theory
Cultural studies
Selected publications
(2020) “No es la Luna (La Luanda de José Eduardo Agualusa)”, in Revista de Occidente, Ciudad.es: Estampas Urbanas y Literarias, nº470-471 (Julio-Agosto 2020): 51.
(2018) “Mundos em Português – Parte 1”, in Literatura-Mundo Comparada, Perspectivas em Português. Helena Carvalhão Buescu e Inocência Mata (coordenação geral). Lisboa: Tinta da China. (executive coord.)
(2018) “O Mundo Lido Europa – Parte 2”, in Literatura-Mundo Comparada, Perspectivas em Português. Cristina Almeida Ribeiro, Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Maria Graciete Silva e Simão Valente. Lisboa: Tinta da China. (executive coord.)
