Luana Ferreira de Freitas is a professor at Universidade Federal do Ceará, in Brazil, where she has been a faculty member since 2010, and is currently at Vrije Universiteit Brussel conducting research as visiting scholar in Translated Brazilian Literature. Freitas completed her Ph.D. at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and her undergraduate studies at Universidade de Brasília. Her main research interests lie in Literary Translation Studies, Brazilian Literature, especially Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector, Literature in English, especially Laurence Sterne, style and authorship.