Catarina Caldeira Martins is Associate Professor with Aggregation title of German Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Research Fellow of the Center for Social Studies at University of Coimbra. She was lecturer for Portuguese, for several years, at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. She holds a Ph. D. in German Literature from the University of Coimbra (2008) and an Aggregation title in Cultural and Literary Studies, with a focus on Decolonial and Feminist Studies. She has published works on topics related to feminist and postcolonial studies, comparative literature, German literature, and African literature, particularly by women. She has published, among other works, the book ‘Mulheres, Raça e Etnicidades. Introdução aos Feminismos Decoloniais’ (2024) by the University of Coimbra Press. She teaches in the PhD programmes in Feminist Studies on Discourses: History, Culture and Society, and on Literary and Culture Studies.