Luciana Gattass

Luciana Gattass earned a magna cum laude BA in Film Studies from Columbia University in 1999, an MA in Literary Theory from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 2007 and a PhD in Literary Theory from PUC-Rio in 2011 with a doctoral fellowship at Brown University in 2010. Both her MA and PhD researches have been fully funded by CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). Her PhD dissertation, “Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections” (PUC-Rio, 2011), was approved with honors and recommended for publication. In 2012, Gattass received a grant from the University of Bergen to act as Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Culture, where she curated the Brazilian Electronic Literature Collection for the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.