Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga

Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga has a Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She also received a Master's degree in English Literature from the same institution, with a thesis on narrative approaches to nationalism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. In 2012, she was awarded a visiting researcher scholarship at the University of Toronto while carrying out her doctoral research on Derrida's destinerrance, Rushdie's novels and...See more

Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga has a Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She also received a Master's degree in English Literature from the same institution, with a thesis on narrative approaches to nationalism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. In 2012, she was awarded a visiting researcher scholarship at the University of Toronto while carrying out her doctoral research on Derrida's destinerrance, Rushdie's novels and John Milton's Paradise Lost. She has also conducted research on film adaptations of literary texts and post-colonial literature. This is her first published book. See less