Júlia Garraio is researcher at the Center for Social Studies/University of Coimbra, where she integrates the research line Democracy, Justice and Human Rights, is co-coordinator of WG-POLICREDOS (Religion, Gender and Society) together with Teresa Toldy and Luciane Lucas Santos and integrates the WG-GPS (Sexualities). She is member and co-founder of the International Research Group Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) (http://www.warandgender.net). She integrates the International Editorial Board of the European Journal of Women's Studies (Q1). Her current research interests include sexual violence, masculinities, feminisms, nationalism, migrations, memory, literature and media. She has participated in six 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 contexts: the rape of German women and girls in WWII, Portuguese colonialism and its legacies, the Angolan wars, the 2011 war in Libya, and contemporary migrations. She has published 2 books (1 as single author), 28 book chapters (25 as single author), 6 book reviews and 17 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 3 special issues in the area of women's studies and 21 scientific events (conferences, workshops and cycles of seminars/debates). She presented papers at over 90 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. Since March 2020 she co-organizes a monthly radio program aimed at disseminating academic research. She coordinated the CES publication Oficina do CES (2011-13), the CES research group Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies (2013-15) and integrated the Board of Directors of CES (2016-2017). She is regularly contacted by scientific journals for peer reviewing (e.g. European Journal of Women’s Studies, Identities, Journalism Practice, ex aequo, Aspasia).