• Region: Iberia; Latin America
• Time: 14th century; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme: Colonialism; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Religion; History of the Book; Maritime Humanities; Luso-Brazilian Literature and History

Before becoming a graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard, I have studied the poetry produced in Portugal and Brazil during the eighteenth century for a few years. Even though I remain very interested in that period, my research focus has changed since 2019. Currently, I am particularly interested in the first encounters of many different civilizations that were caused by the arrival of the Europeans in the Americas during the late 15^th and early 16^th centuries. Those first encounters of different Amerindian, African and European societies on American (lato sensu) soil produced a series of overlapping alterities that have reshaped the world during those crucial decades. My research, still in its early stages, will try to deal with that through a truly transdisciplinary perspective.