Katerina Blasques Kaspar

PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Graduate Program in Foreign Languages and Translation, University of São Paulo. She holds a degree in Gastronomy Technology from Centro Universitário Senac (2012) and a Bachelors in Languages (Portuguese/French) from the University of São Paulo (2018). She also earned teaching qualifications in Portuguese and French from the University of São Paulo (2019). In 2022, she completed her Masters in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Graduate Program in Foreign Languages and Translation, University of São Paulo. Her research began in the Scientific-Academic Tutoring Program (2014) and the Undergraduate Research Initiative (2015), conducted during her undergraduate studies, exploring the intersections between food and Brazilian literature. She participated in an academic exchange through the agreement between the University of São Paulo and Université Paris-Sorbonne (20162017), taking courses in Comparative Literature and French Language programs. Her investigations have focused on concepts of commensality and encounter in critical and literary texts. She is interested in expanded literature, the relationship between literature and performance, contemporary literature in general, and the interplay between French and Latin American literary practices. Currently, she is studying the notion of community in the works of Sophie Calle, Paloma Vidal, and Cristina Rivera Garza. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)