Doctor Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo holds a MA and PhD in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Languages and Literatures from the Universidade Estadual Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently a the Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow at the Roger Thayer Stone Center at Tulane University. Her current book project, titled: “From the quarto de despejo to the Bookshelf: Literature written by black Brazilian women and the quest for mobility from the 1960s to the present,” focuses on how black female authors defy the idea of assigned spaces by constructing epistemic scenarios that generate mobility for themselves and for new generation of writers.