Patricia Vieira is Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her fields of expertise are Latin American and Iberian Literature and Cinema, Utopian Studies and the Environmental Humanities. She currently heads the European Research Council Consolidator project “ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin” and co-coordinates the Gerda Henkel Foundation funded project “Resilient Forest Cities: Utopia and Development in the Modern Amazon.”

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 www. patriciavieira.net