Biography

Gonçalo Cholant is a PhD candidate in America Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research interests are African-American women's literature, Caribbean women's literature, trauma and violence representations, American Studies and Borderland Studies. He holds a MA in Feminist Studies from the same University. His undergrad studies were conducted at Universidade Federal de Pelotas, in Brazil, where he obtained an English Language and Literature degree. He is part of the Gender Workshop Series XIV organizing team. He is also a Researcher at CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies - in the strand Anglophone Cultures and History: American Intersections. He also collaborates with the Trauma Observatory as a researcher.