Susana L. M. Antunes holds a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is the Portuguese Program Coordinator and teaches Language, Literature, and Culture of the Lusophone world. Her research interests include travel poetry, Macaronesia island Literature, Ecocriticism, and short fiction by women authors from the Lusophone world.