Dr. Pedro Lopes de Almeida is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Their research focuses primarily on aesthetics and the environment in literature, film, and performance from Brazil, Portugal, and Angola. Their research interests also include literary theory and Portuguese and Brazilian cinema, as well as foreign-language acquisition and curriculum development. They hold a B.A. in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies (2009), an M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Interart Studies with a specialization in Literary Theory (2012), both from the University of Porto in Portugal, and a Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, USA (2021). For more than a decade, Professor Lopes de Almeida has taught in higher education institutions in the US, having designed a wide range of new courses on Portuguese literatures, cultures, and the environment. They have previously taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2013-2015), and at Brown University (2015-2022). In 2018-2019, Dr. Lopes de Almeida was the recipient of a Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Collaborative Humanities from the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University, and in 2021-2022 they taught at Brown University as a Deans’ Faculty Fellow in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. In 2023, Professor Lopes de Almeida was distinguished with the Faculty and Postdoctoral LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Award by the University of North Carolina. Their work has been featured in journals and edited volumes in Europe, Latin America, and in the US.