Researcher at Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal

Dr Raquel Ribeiro studied a BA in Journalism and Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal, followed by a PhD in Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool. Her doctoral thesis examined the idea of Europe in works of the Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol. She was the first recipient in the Humanities of the Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship (2010-2012), at the University of Nottingham, where she developed the postdoctoral project: ‘War Wounds: Cultural representations of the Cuban presence in the Angolan civil war’. She is a member of the Cuba Research Forum, at the University of Nottingham. She taught Brazilian Literature at the University of Oxford (2014), and Lusophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh (2014-2021), before joining the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University, in Lisbon in 2022. Raquel has also been a permanent arts freelance correspondent and literary critic for the Portuguese newspaper Público since 2001. As a creative writer, she has published two novels and several short-stories.