Fernanda V.

Fernanda Vilar is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Comparative African Literature from Paris Nanterre University (2015). She worked in the team in charge of the External Communications of the European Commission's interpreting service (2016). She was selected by UNO’s Academic Impact Hub, which culminated in her speech about women’s rights at the General Assembly in New York City (2015). She received an excellence scholarship for her Master at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where she was a lector of Portuguese as a foreign language (2010-2012). She taught Portuguese at University of Marne la Valée (2012-2013). She translated into Portuguese the novel La vie et demie by Sony Labou Tansi, waiting to be published.