Letícia Gabriela de Castro Monteiro

Graduated in Language and Literature from the University of São Paulo, she dedicated herself to academic research in the field of literary intertextuality. During the period from 2019 to 2020, she conducted a scientific initiation research funded by FAPESP, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Christian Werner. This work addressed the complex intertextual relationships between the characters Helena and Penelope from the works of Homer and Capitu by Machado de Assis, highlighting the reception of Greek works in the Brazilian literary context.She performed, as well, an research, under the guidance of PhD. Mamede Mustafá Jarouche, on the intertextual relations between Homer's Penelope and Sahrazad, from The Arabian Nights. This study reflected on the female role in narrative and literary tradition, traversing the cultural bridges between classical and Arabic literature. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)