Brugioni, Elena

Elena Brugioni is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho — CEHUM. She holds a Ph.D. in Lusophone African Literature and she is currently developing a postdoctoral research project entitled “Provincializing the Canon: questioning the great European narratives in ‘homoglot’ literatures” financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She has published several articles and book chapters in anthologies and critical essays on African Literatures and Postcolonial Studies. She is co-editor, with Andreia Sarabando, Marie-Manuelle Silva and Joana Passos, of the collections: Áfricas Contemporâneas | Contemporary Africas (2010, Húmus Edições/CEHUM) and Itinerâncias. Percusos e Representações da Pós-colonialidade | Journeys: Postcolonial Trajectories and Representations (2012, Húmus Edições/CEHUM). She has recently published the monograph Mia Couto. Representação, Historia(s) e Pós-colonialidade (2012, Húmus Edições/CEHUM).