Ana Luíza is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is situated in literary and cultural studies, with interests in twentieth-century and contemporary Brazilian literature and culture, Indigenous literatures, Ecocriticism, and Theories of Capitalism and Modernity. She holds an MA in Literary Theory and History, and a BA in Languages and Literatures from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
During her master’s degree, funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), she researched subalternity in the fiction of Clarice Lispector, examining how these narratives interrogate Brazilian social formations and expose class and racial contradictions. She also completed an undergraduate research internship funded by FAPESP, through which she engaged with the theoretical debates of the Warwick Research Collective (WReC), especially around world-literature and cultural production under conditions of combined and uneven development. Alongside this work, she participated in the development of a Guarani–Portuguese Bilingual Atlas, conducting fieldwork with the Rio Silveira Indigenous Village of the Guarani Mbyá people. This experience deepened her engagement with indigenous knowledge production, language, and territoriality.
Her current research explores the intersections between culture and historical processes, especially the relation between aesthetic form and historical development in the Global South. Outside academia, she is also a poet and singer, and engages with different art forms such as music and cinema.