Cielo Griselda Festino

Cielo G. Festino has a Master's degree and a PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo. She did a post-doctoral program on teaching English-language literature at the University of São Paulo (DLM)(2007-2009), a second post-doctoral on short stories in the vernacular languages of India, by female authors, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2010-2012), and currently a third postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Classic and Vernacular Letters (USP) (2017-2022) on Goan literature and plurilingualism. She is a professor of English-language literature at Universidade Paulista, São Paulo and a collaborating professor in the Master's program at the Federal University of Tocantins. She is a member of the thematic project ?Pensando Goa. A Unique Library in the Portuguese Language? (USP/FAPESP). She has several publications on Indian literature, among which she was co-editor of the volume of the literary magazine Muse India (vol. 70, 2016), dedicated to the literature of Goa in the Portuguese language, of the book A House of Many Mansions: Goan Literature in the Portuguese Language. An Anthology of Original Essays, Short Stories and Poems (Margão, Goa: Under the Peepal Tree, 2017) and the volume "Goans on the Move" from the Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (Vol. 7, 2018). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)