Ana Carolina Meireles is a Masters student in Literary, Cultural and Interarts Studies, with a specialization in Comparative Studies, at the University of Porto, Portugal. She holds a bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures, in Portuguese and French studies, from the same institution. Besides being interested in Portuguese literature, feminist and intermedial studies; her current research focuses on ecocriticism, animal studies and surrealism, fields she has worked on thanks to the two research scholarships she received, thus also collaborating with the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML) and Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar: Espaço, Cultura, Memória (CITCEM). She co-edited the book “'Escrever com os pardais' notas para uma zoopoética” [“'Writing with the Sparrows': notes for a zoopoetics”] (with Helena I. Lopes, Porto: ILC, 2024) and is now working on her MA thesis about zoopoetics and ecofeminism in contemporary Portuguese poetry written by women, supervised by Professor Pedro Eiras.