Jaqueline Pierazzo

Jaqueline Pierazzo completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Campinas (Brazil) in 2011. She obtained her Masters degree at the University of Porto (Portugal) in 2016 in Anglo- American Studies with the dissertation titled Between Terror and Sublime: The Female Characters in “Berenice”, “Morella” and “Ligeia. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. In 2018 she received a PhD scholarship from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). Her main interests are Edgar Allan Poe’s works, Gothic and Terror Literature and Digital Humanities. Her PhD thesis main focus is the creation of a (digital) cartography of Allan Poe’s effect of terror. She is also a collaborator at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies).