Ferreira-Pinto, Cristina

Cristina Ferreira-Pinto was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Brazilian and Spanish American literatures from Tulane University, New Orleans. Her major fields of research are Brazilian women's literature and feminist literary criticism, and she has published numerous essays in academic journals in Brazil, the United States, and Spain. She is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Southwest Texas State University.