Bio

I grew up in Volta Redonda, a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In my youth, I used to make fanzines and participate in cartoon exhibitions. By the age of 15, I was deeply involved in audiovisual: I was part of the animation team for a short film and even traveled to a film festival in India to represent my fellow animators.

I have a bachelor’s degree in Communication with an emphasis on Publishing (ECo-UFRJ, Brazil, 2013) — I focused my studies on picturebooks. I worked at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Direito Rio) and Editora Jorge Zahar in the areas of visual arts and graphic production. I was a CAPES scholarship holder during my Master’s degree in Arts, Culture and Languages (IAD-UFJF, Brazil, 2017), in which I developed research on children’s story apps. During this period I was also part of IRG (Iconicity Research Group).

I am conducting a research entitled “Going through the woods between the imaginary world and the real one: Red Riding Hood in transmedial transformation” (FCT Scholarship) in the Doctoral Program in Materialities of Literature (CLP-UC, Portugal). During my PhD, I was part of two different projects in the research group “Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature”: “Ex Machina: Inscription and Literature“, and “Murals and Literature: Digital Creation in Educational Context“. I have also worked as executive editor of the journal MATLIT: Materialities of Literature for three years.

I am currently a member of the MATLIT LAB (UC); researcher at the CNPq Research Group “Literature and Design of Artifacts for Children and Young People in the Digital World” (UFSC); and a collaborating researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (NOVA FCSH, Portugal). In the latter, I integrated the research team of the project VAST: Values Across Space & Time (European Union’s Horizon 2020) in 2023.

My topics of interest are visual arts (illustration, animation, toy art), storytelling across media, traditional stories, and material culture.