ALVA MARTÍNEZ TEIXEIRO (A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 1982) is a Distinguished Senior Professor in the Department of Letters of the University of A Coruña and, since 2022, Foreign Associate Professor on the Postgraduate Program in Letters at the School of Humanities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). She was Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies (2024) - Assistant Professor, since 2012 - at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and Director (2021-2024) of the Master’s Degree in Brazilian Studies (FLUL and Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon). She is an integrated researcher at the ‘Grupo de Investigación Lingüística e Literaria Galega (ILLA)’, at the University of A Coruña and has been a collaborator researcher, since 2012, at the same group. She was an integrated researcher at the Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures (CLEPUL) at the University of Lisbon - where, from 2020 to 2024, she was Coordinator of Research Group 3 (Brazilian Literature and Culture) and, from 2022 to 2024, Deputy Director of the Centre. Since 2014, she has also been a collaborator researcher with the ‘Grupo de Estudios Literarios Brasileños Avanzados (ELBA)’, at the University of Salamanca, and, since 2017, with the research project ‘Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues (DIIA) - Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC)’, at the University of Lisbon. Graduated in Portuguese Philology (2005), by the University of Santiago de Compostela, she holds a Master’s and PhD in Brazilian Literature, from the University of A Coruña, respectively, with the dissertation “The violence speech in Brazilian contemporary literature” (2007) and with the thesis “Hilda Hilst’s literary work and the category of the obscene” (2010, Mention European Doctor and Outstanding PhD Graduate Prize). In the years 2008 and 2009, she was hired as a pre-doctoral student at the University of A Coruña and, from 2012 to 2018, she was a professor of Brazilian Literature at the Degree in Portuguese Studies at the Université Mohammed V, in Rabat. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Investigation Fellowship of Portuguese Culture for Foreigners, 2011), to carry out research on the literary work of Sophia Andresen, during a nine-month post-doctoral stay at the Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho; centre and university where she was an external researcher (2013-2016) of the Group of Brazilian Studies in Portugal (GRES). She was co-editor, with P. Angelini, of “Navegações. Portuguese Language Culture and Literatures Journal” (2019-2024, PUCRS / CLEPUL). Her research works focus on Galician and Portuguese Literature and, particularly, Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Literature, as well as the interartistic practices (Literature and Art). She published, among other monographs, the books “A pretence nostalgy for authority. A partial interpretation of The standing pig by Vicente Risco” (2007, Ramón Piñeiro Award for Essay) and “No trace of impurity. Of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s aesthetic and poetic need” (2013), as well as, already in the concrete scope of Brazilian Studies, “Maktub. Of rhetoric in Raduan Nassar’s fiction” (2006) and “The inconvenient hero. Utopia and pessimism in Hilda Hilst’s theatre” (2009), coordinating, with D.-M. Heinnrich and G. de Aguiar, the volume “Vicente and Dora Ferreira da Silva. A poetic-philosophical calling” (2015) and editing, with C. Pereiro, “Machado de Assis and the mundane comedy” (2017) and "The stories of the future of Machado de Assis" (2025). In 2014, with the essay “The shadow line of a suspected zoology lesson. Of the animal and the human in Lygia Fagundes Telles’ narrative”, she was granted the ‘Itamaraty Award. IV International Monograph Contest’, from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, in 2022, the ‘Honourable Mention, University of Lisbon Research Prizes - Literatures and Cultures'.