Alice Atsuko Matsuda holds a Ph.D. in Letters from the State University of Londrina and, currently, develops post-doctoral training at the University of Coimbra, integrating the Research Group on Materialities of Literature, with Capes funding. She is an Assistant Professor at Federal University of Technology of Paraná, in Curitiba and permanent professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Language Studies (PPGEL). Leader of the Children and Youth Literature Research Group: literary analysis and reader training (UTFPR-Curitiba). Together with ANPOLL, she is a member of the Working Group on Reading and Literature for Children and Youth. She researches in the areas of Children and Youth Literature, Literature and Teaching, Training of Readers, Digital Literature.