Maria Vitória is a third-year Ph.D. student 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 cultures 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". Her main areas of interest are Brazilian popular poetry, Digital Humanities, and Ecocriticism.