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Inocência Mata holds a Ph.D. in African Literatures from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), with a dissertation entitled Fiction and History in the Work of Pepetela: Extratextual Dimension and Effectiveness (2003). She carried out her postdoctoral research in Postcolonial Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a professor at FLUL in the areas of Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, and a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies.

Among her published works are: Emergência e Existência de uma Literatura: o caso santomense (1993), Literatura Angolana: silêncios e falas de uma voz inquieta (2001), Polifonias Insulares: cultura e literatura de São Tomé e Príncipe (2010), and A Casa dos Estudantes do Império e o lugar da Literatura na consciencialização política (2015).

She is a member of the International Comparative Literature Association, the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language, the International African Studies Association, the Angolan Academy of Letters, the International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities in Portuguese Language, and a founding member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of São Tomé and Príncipe.