Marcela Lemos is a Ph.D. candidate in Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. She is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where she got her M.A. and first Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her research focuses on the roles of photography in 21st-century Brazilian, Argentine, and Argentine-Brazilian literary works addressing the legacy and ruins of Southern American military dictatorships (1960s-1990s). Her dissertation aims to contribute to reshaping the concept of postmemory within a Southern American context and rectifying the frequent omission of Brazil from discussions on authoritarianism and human rights violations in Latin America. Her HASTAC project is prototype a digital map identifying contested memory sites of human rights violations and resistance to authoritarianism in three Brazilian cities. As she teaches Portuguese at IU, other research interests include Luso-Afro-Brazilian language and cultures and second language pedagogies.