Rebecca Atencio is an associate professor of Brazilian Studies at Tulane University. In 2014, she published the book Memory’s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil with the University of Wisconsin Press. She is currently completing a new book on feminisms in contemporary Brazil. In addition, she is co-editor of the academic journal Luso-Brazilian Review, the oldest academic journal focused on the Lusophone world in the United States, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.