The research project "In Search of Women in Literature: From Illustrious Unknowns to New Editions" by Professor Juliana Maia de Queiroz has been running since 2024 and is highly regarded for its academic achievements.

Her research focuses on the study of women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries who were silenced by literary historiography, but who have been recovered and republished through initiatives by Brazilian editors, publishers, and researchers in recent years.

Many women writers published their poems, novels, and/or opinion pieces in periodicals. Similarly, numerous critical reception texts or book advertisements were published about these women who wrote throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite being erased from official historiography, their writings remained recorded in ink and paper, serving as the basis for our primary source research today.

While previously we had to rely solely on microfilm machines or leaf through worn or inaccessible pages, in recent years, such research has expanded due to the numerous digitized editions available to readers and researchers eager to expand their knowledge of Brazilian women writers throughout the centuries. Our main objective is to read and analyze works written by women in Brazil, specifically new editions by authors who were forgotten in their original editions from the nineteenth century or the first decades of the twentieth century, or even those that never made it into literary history compendiums and have only been reprinted in recent decades.

Thus, this research aims to continue the work with primary sources and the study of literary works erased from the literary canon, work we have undertaken since 2014 at the Federal University of Pará, but now focusing on works by women. We thus seek to contribute to the advancement of current research on women's literary writing in Brazil.

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link.