Marcela Santos Brigida is a Brazilian scholar, translator, and writer. Her research focuses on adaptations and appropriations of Charles Dickens’s fiction in twenty-first-century works, on material culture and the book in nineteenth-century England, and on contemporary Irish literature. She has also published in the fields of Performance Studies and Education and Social Justice.
She is Professor of English Literature at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), where she coordinates the outreach project Literatura Inglesa Brasil. At the same institution, she is a permanent faculty member in the Graduate Program in Literary Studies (PPGL/UERJ). She is the leader of the research group NOA – Narrar o Agora. She publishes reviews and essays in the newsletter Reading While Walking.