Ana Maria Saldanha is Invited Assistant Professor at Macao Polytechnic Institute. She has PhD from the University of Grenoble (France) and from the New University of Lisbon (UNL – Portugal) in Literary Comparative Studies. She also holds Post- Doctoral degree in Literary and Agrarian Sociology from the Faculty of Sciences and Literature (FCLAR) – São Paulo State University (UNESP) (Brazil).