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Inocência Mata holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Lisbon, specializing in African Literatures, with a post-doctorate in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization, University of California, Berkeley). She is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) in the area of Literatures, Arts and Cultures, and a member of the Center for Comparative Studies (CEComp). From 2014 to 2028, she was a visiting professor at the University of Macau, where she was deputy head of the Portuguese Department and director of the Center for Luso-Asian Studies.

Luca Fazzini is a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), University of Lisbon, and sub-director of the PhD programme in Portuguese as a Foreign/Second Language, at the same institution. He is the author of Versões do Horror: Guerra e Testemunho no Romance Português e Italiano Contemporâneo and he has a personal Research Project, “Lisbon as an Afro-Atlantic City: Postcolonial Perspective for a Comparative Approach in Portuguese”. He is also a member of the FCT Research Project “The Portuguese Colonial Literature: Beyond the memory of the empire” and Brazilian Research Group “Afropeans-Port: Afropeans writing in Portuguese”.

Roberto Francavilla is Full Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the University of Genoa and also works on African literatures. He is a translator and holds workshops on Theory and Practice of Literary Translation. A founding member of various scientific and cultural associations, he directs the American Studies series ‘Igarapé’ and co-directs the Portuguese poetry series ‘Da Ocidental Praia’. His latest book is Quel che il mare non vuole – Letteratura e paesaggio in Portogallo (Mimesis, 23). He edited, among others, Fernando Pessoa’s Il secondo libro dell’inquietudine and Clarice Lispector’s Tutti i racconti.