Jéssica Soares Lopes has a BA in English from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and an MA in the field of Discourse and Translation Studies in Sociocultural Contexts from the Graduate Programme in English (PPGI) at the aforementioned institution. As a PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies, her present research focuses on Northern Irish theatre. She is interested in the areas of language studies, foreign literatures and radio drama, with a focus on gender and feminism. She is a member of Núcleo de Estudos Irlandeses (NEI) at UFSC since 2020, where she has been developing an interest in investigating technology in Irish literature.
