Jessica Falconi is Sub-Director and contracted researcher at CEsA- Centre for African and Development Studies, ISEG, University of Lisbon. She is Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she teaches Intercultural Communication and Mozambican Literature (2023/24). She was a Post-doctoral fellow funded by FCT (2010-2017) at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra and later at CEsA. She was Visiting Professor (2018) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she headed the Portuguese Language Centre of the Camões Institute and taught Lusophone Literatures. She holds a PhD in Iberian Studies by the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (2007) with a thesis on Mozambican poetry published in Italy (2008). She has been a team member of several research project funded by FCT. She is a member of the International Group of Studies of the Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire. Within the scope of this activity, in 2023 she co-edited the book "The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions" (Routledge). Furthermore, she is a team member of the research project "Black Spain" funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs. Whitin the scope of this project she is focusing on the African presence in Portugal during the dictatorship. Within the scope of other projects (NNPC; NEVIS) she conducted fieldwork in Mozambique, Cape Verde and Sao Tomé, where she conducted in-depth interviews with writers, filmmakers and other intellectuals. She co-edited 4 books of interviews (Colibri and Peter Langa). She has a consolidated experience in literary analysis as well as archival research and published extensively in the fields of Lusophone African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Indian Ocean Studies and Ecocriticism. In addition, she co-organised several international scientific events, such as the 11th Iberian Conference of African Studies (2022) and the EADI Lisbon Conference (2023).