Luca Fazzini is a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp) of the School of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He holds a BA in Modern Literatures at the University of Siena (2012) and a MA in Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2014). He is a Doctor (2019) in Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he carried out a research concerning the representation of the city in contemporary literature and culture in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal. He is the author of Versões do Horror: Guerra e Testemunho no Romance Português e Italiano Contemporâneo (Lisboa, Ed. Colibri) and other essays and articles related to African Literatures in Portuguese language, to Contemporary Portuguese Literature, to Comparative and Postcolonial Studies. His research activities concern the literary representations of violence and trauma; literature and urban experience; relations between aesthetics and politics in literature and contemporary art. He has a personal Research Project “Lisbon as an Afro-Atlantic City: Postcolonial Perspective for a Comparative Approach in Portuguese”, with a FCT funding. He is also a member of the FCT Research Project “The Portuguese Colonial Literature: Beyond the memory of the empire”, the italian Erasmus+ BIP Project "Narrazioni afrodiscendenti: Italia e Francia in dialogo", and Brazilian Research Group “Afropeans-Port: Afropeans writing in Portuguese” with a CNPq funding.