Maria Vitória is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. She graduated in Literary Studies at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 2018 with the undergraduate thesis "​Literatura de Cordel and the Absence of popular culture in the Teaching of Brazilian Literature". At the same institution, Grisi got her master's working with Brazilian literature and acting mainly with Northeastern popular poetry and national identity. In 2023, she defended her second M.A. intitled "Experiências geográficas, relações humanas: o construto do folheto nordestino a partir do fenômeno sociogeográfico das secas". She is currently working to obtain a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science Technology and plans to apply mapping technologies to her dissertation.

In 2026, her article "Geospatial Analysis of O Quinze by Rachel de Queiroz: Mapping Literary Spaces with ArcGIS Pro" was published in the Fortieth Anniversary Special Issue of the journal Portuguese Studies.