Júlia Garraio is Principal Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where she integrates the research line Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. She is Vice-President of the CES Ethics Committee. She is a fellow of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) with the CEEC 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 review editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. She is co-founder of the international research group SVAC-Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (https://warandgender.net/about). 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 and gender-based violence, Portuguese contemporary literature and cinema, media, European debates about immigraton, masculinities, feminist debates, nationalism, cultural memories and memory cultures. 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, the aesthetics and politics of representing sexual violence in literature and the media, having conducted research about the following historical contexts: contemporary Portuguese society, Portuguese colonialism and its legacies, contemporary migrations to Europe, World War II, Angolan wars. She has published 5 books (1 as single author), 41 book chapters (30 as single author), 7 book reviews and 25 journal articles (16 as single author) in English, Portuguese, German and French. She also has several contributions in dictionaries, encyclopaedias and conference proceedings. She co-organized 7 special issues and 40 scientific events (conferences, summer schools, workshops, cycles of seminars/debates, cycles of cinema). She presented papers at 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 Observatory masculinities.pt (2022-23), the CES WG GPS-Research Group in Sexualities (2023-24) and the CES WG Policredos-Religions and Society (2020-2025). She is regularly contacted by scientific journals for peer reviewing (e.g. Sexualities, Journal of Gender Studies, European Journal of Women's Studies, Identities, Journalism Practice, Memory Studies, Nations and Nationalism, The Journal of Holocaust Research, ex aequo).