Marcela Santos Brigida

Marcela Santos Brigida is an academic, translator, and writer based in Brazil. Her research focuses on the adaptations and appropriations of Charles Dickens’s fiction in 21st-century works, material culture and the book in 19th-century England, and contemporary Irish literature. She has also published work in Performance Studies, with particular interest on Alex Turner.

Since 2019, Marcela has been actively engaged in literary communities online, with a presence on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and more recently, TikTok. She publishes reviews and essays in English on Reading While Walking and in Brazilian Portuguese on Literatura Inglesa Brasil. You can also find her on Substack.

Marcela is a Professor of English Literature at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), where she teaches in the BA English Literature program. She supervises undergraduate students as part of the Literatura Inglesa Brasil extension project, which she also coordinates. Additionally, she runs the Fernanda Carvalho Book Club at UERJ.

Marcela is a shareholder and partner at Senhora Bennet, an independent publishing house that also offers short courses on literature and other art forms in collaboration with educators and researchers from across Brazil.

You can find her selected publications here.