Sílvia Correia is a professor at the University of Porto. She is a specialist in the Contemporary History of Portugal and Europe, in the conflicts of the 20th century and their cultural effects from a comparative and transnational perspective, and she is interested in the debates on history and memory as well as in critical postcolonial theories of violence. Formerly, she was a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013-2022). Correia earned her doctorate degree from NOVA University of Lisbon (2011) with a thesis on the politics of memory of the First World War in Portugal. She has held postdoctoral research fellowships at Brown University and NOVA University of Lisbon. Correia is a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre international de recherche de l' Historial de la Grande Guerre and of the International Military Welfare History Network. She is a member of the advisory boards of the journals Análise Social (Portugal) and História e Guerra (Argentina). She is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto and at the Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon and a collaborator of the LETHE - Laboratório de Estudos em Teoria, Historicidade e Estética (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and PUC-Rio. She was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Brown University (2011); Directeurs d'Études Associés at Fondation Maison Science de l'Homme (2020); visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin – Lateinamerika-Institut (2021); and international fellow at Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform - Goethe University Frankfurt (2024).