Júlia Garraio is researcher at the Center for Social Studies/University of Coimbra, where she integrates the research line Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. She is president of the CES Ethics Committee and co-coordinator of the WG-POLICREDOS (Religion, Gender and Society). She is a fellow (CEEC) of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) with the project Dis/entangling Rape: Sexual Violence in Portuguese literature and cinema in the 21st century (2023-2028). She is Co-PI of the FCT project UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape (2023-2025). She is co-founder of the international research group SVAC-Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (https://warandgender.net/about). She is review editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. She integrated the Historical Research Group of the Independent Commission for the Study of Child Sexual Abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church (2022-23). Her current research interests include sexual violence, masculinities, feminisms, nationalism, migrations, memory, literature, media and cinema. She has participated in eleven national and international research projects in the areas of Gender Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies and Literature. Her main focus of research is narratives and the politics of representing sexual violence in literature and the media, namely in the following historical contexts: the rape of German women and girls in WWII, Portuguese colonialism and its legacies, the Angolan wars, contemporary migrations, contemporary Portuguese society. She has published 4 books (1 as single author), 36 book chapters (28 as single author), 7 book reviews and 19 journal articles (15 as single author) in English, Portuguese, German and French. She also has several contributions in dictionaries, encyclopaedias and conference proceedings. She co-organized 4 special issues and 35 scientific events (conferences, workshops and cycles of seminars/debates). She presented papers at over 130 conferences and workshops in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, UK, Ireland, Italy, Iceland and Brazil. She also has several contributions in the press (op-eds, film reviews). She was interviewed by the Portuguese press, radio and TV on issues related to gender and sexual violence. She coordinated the CES publication Oficina do CES (2011-13), she co-coordinated the CES research group Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies (2013-15) and integrated the Board of Directors of CES (2016-2017). She co-coordinated the CES WG GPS-Research Group in Sexualities. She is regularly contacted by scientific journals for peer reviewing (e.g. European Journal of Women's Studies, Identities, Journalism Practice, Memory Studies, Nations and Nationalism, ex aequo, Aspasia).