Margarida Martins has a BA in Social Anthropology and Ancient History from University College London (1993-96) and an MA in American Literature and Culture from Keele University, UK (1998-99) with a final dissertation on the life and narrative of Am
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Margarida Martins has a BA in Social Anthropology and Ancient History from University College London (1993-96) and an MA in American Literature and Culture from Keele University, UK (1998-99) with a final dissertation on the life and narrative of American writer William Burroughs. She is currently doing her PhD on South Asian female authors at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Her research involves issues on identity, culture and language in the works of female South Asian writers who write in English. While living in New York, Margarida did her TESOL course at Columbia University and has since been a teacher of English as a foreign language. She is curently teaching at various institutions in and around Lisbon and is also an online English tutor at the Portuguese Open University.
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