Professor at the Department of Modern Foreing Languages of Arts and Letters Center at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) since 2018, coordinated Idiomas sem Fronteiras in the university (2019-2023) and was the french language pedagogic coordinator at UFSM (2018-2019). Has a Bachelors degree in Portuguese and French Languages and Literatures (2005) and a Licenciatura degree in Portuguese and French Languages and Litertures (2010); a Master degree in French Literature from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2007); and a Doctor degree in Theory of Literature from the same university (2015); got a scholarship from CAPES for PhD students and the PSDE CAPES grant for a stage (bolsa-sanduíche) at University of Paris-IV Sobonne. Research leader of the group Oficinas de escrita, histórias em quadrinhos e tradução: teoria da literatura e práticas literárias, at Diretório de Grupos from CNPq. Organized the events Universidade em Quadrinhos (UniQ, 2019). Organizes the prize Grampo (2016-), and edits the website Balbúrdia of comics critics; was member of the jury of Comics category at the 61st Prêmio Jabuti and curator of the Bienal de Quadrinhos de Curitiba (2023).Has experience in the following areas: Language, mostly Theory of Literature, working with the topics: comics, teaching of french as a foreign language, Roland Barthes, Oulipo, Oubapo and literature.

Maria Clara Carneiro est Docteur en Théorie Littéraire par l’Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro et enseigne langue et littérature françaises au Département de Langues Étrangères Modernes à l’Université Fédérale de Santa Maria, au Brésil, où elle coordonne les actions locales du réseau Idiomas sem Fronteiras. Dirigeant aussi un groupe de recherche autour de la bande dessinée et la création sous contraintes, a traduit de nombreuses BD, organise le Prix Grampo des Grandes BD et écrit sur le blog critique Balburdia. A aussi contribué pour les publications Style(s) de (la) bande dessinée (Classiques Garnier, 2019) et Post-Comics. Beyond Comics, Illustration and The Graphic Novel (Het Balanseer et Kask & Conservatorium, 2010) et Quadrinhos : la nouvelle bande dessinée brésilienne (Le Portillon et Onapratut, 2021).