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Catarina Caldeira Martins, a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), was honoured with the FLUC Teaching Award 2024, a distinction given by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra in recognition of the excellence of her pedagogical performance as a lecturer at this faculty.

About the winner
Catarina Caldeira Martins is an Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. She was a reader for several years at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. She holds a PhD in German Literature from the University of Coimbra (2008) and an Aggregate Degree in Cultural and Literary Studies, with a focus on feminist and decolonial studies. She has published on feminist and postcolonial studies, comparative literature, German-language literature and African literatures, particularly those of women. Her current areas of research include decolonial studies and feminist studies, associated with themes and issues in literatures and cultures. She teaches on the Doctoral programmes in Feminist Studies, Discourses: History, Culture and Society, and Literature and Culture Studies. She is Director of the CES Collection.