Maria José Canelo is researcher (since 2002) at the Center for Social Studies (CES), integrating Thematic Line 3, "Europe and the Global South: heritage and dialogues". She is Assistant Professor in Anglo-American Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (FLUC). She got her PhD in American Studies at New York University with a thesis titled "Carey McWilliams and the question of cultural citizenship in the 1940s". Her Masters in Anglo-American Studies and BA in English and German Studies were pursued at the University of Coimbra. She teaches in the BA in Modern Languages, the MA in Studies in Culture, Literature and Modern Languages, the MA in English Teaching and the PhD in Modern Languages: Literature, Culture, Translation. She coordinates the MA in Studies in Cultures, Literatures and Modern Languages (FLUC). She has been part of research projects at CES, such as "The representation of violence and the violence of representation" and "Memory, violence, identity: new comparative perspectives on modernism". Her current research interests include American and Interamerican studies; literary and cultural studies; questions of citizenship, national identity, and immigration; modernism and literary magazines; interculturality; and visual studies.