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Melina Pereira Savi is currently an independent researcher. From 2018.2 to 2023.1, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the English Graduate Program at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), where she taught required and elective courses and conducted research on climate literature (cli-fi), ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene under the supervision of Professor Alinne Balduino Pires Fernandes, Dr. She holds a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from UFSC (2018), under the supervision of Professor Claudia Junqueira de Lima Costa, Dr. In her doctoral research, she examined three works by American author Ursula K. Le Guin to identify how her writing about other imagined planets can help us think about our own in the context of the Anthropocene. He holds a master’s degree in Literary and Cultural Theory and Criticism (UFSC, 2009), a postgraduate degree in Translation and Textual Revision in Portuguese/English (Faculdade Barddal, 2007) and a degree in English Language and Literature (UFSC, 2005), with a sandwich degree in Film Studies at New York University (2004, CAPES-FIPSE scholarship). Her research interests include climate change fiction, ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene.
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