Doris Wieser is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, where she is responsible for the area of Portuguese-language African Literatures, and an integrated member of the Center for Portuguese Literature. She holds a PhD in Ibero-Romance Literatures from the University of Göttingen (Germany), with a thesis on the Latin American crime novel at the turn of the millennium, and a Masters in Hispanic, Portuguese and German Studies from the University of Heidelberg (Germany). She was research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the University of Göttingen between 2008 and 2016, post-doctoral fellow, with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2014 and 2015), and FCT Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies, of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2017-2019). Between 2017 and 2021 she coordinated the project “National identities in dialogue. Constructions of political and literary identities in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-present)” (IF/00654/2015/CP1283/CT0004). She is the author of dozens of articles in scientific journals and specialized books, written in Portuguese, Spanish, English and German. She published the monograph „Der lateinamerikanische Kriminalroman um die Jahrtausendwende: Typen und Kontexte“ (Berlin: LIT, 2012), and co-organized, among others, the books “DecliNações: género e nação nas literaturas e culturas africanas de língua portuguesa” (with Jessica Falconi. Coimbra: Almedina, 2022); “A flor de cuerpo: representaciones del género y de las disidencias sexo-genéricas en Latinoamérica” (with Luciana Moreira. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2021); “Cities of the Lusophone World: Literature, Culture and Urban Transformations” (with Ana Filipa Prata. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018); “Identidades em movimento: construções identitárias na África de língua portuguesa e seus reflexos no Brasil e em Portugal” (with Enrique Rodrigues-Moura. Frankfurt am Main: TFM, Biblioteca Luso-Brasileira, 2015); and the dossiers “Mulheres na imprensa colonial: discursos e representações” (with Jessica Falconi. Ex aequo, 39, 2019) and “Imaginarios africanistas y trasatlánticos: memoria y agencia cultural” (with Magdalena López, Iberoamericana XVII, 66, 2017). She also directed the documentary film “Viver e escrever em trânsito: entre Angola e Portugal” (63 min., 2021). Her research interests revolve around the construction of collective identities and memories, the crime novel and gender studies in African Literatures in the Portuguese Language and Latin American Literatures.