possui Graduação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1965), Mestrado em Letras pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1977) e Doutorado em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade de São Paulo (1990). Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Literatura Brasileira, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: feminino, mulher, critica, Clarice Lispector, romance e Graciliano Ramos. CURRICULO EM INGLÊS: Lucia Helena de Oliveira Vianna was born in São Gonçalo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, on December 28,1943. She obtained her degree in education from Federal Fluminense University, in Niterói(RJ), in 1965, where, in 1978, she submitted a dissertation for her Master's Degree, entitled A ponta do novelo( The End of the ball of Yarn)(Àtica: São Paulo, 1983).based on Graciliano Ramos's novel Angústia.She received a Doctorate of Literature from São Paulo University. Her doctor's thesis was published as a book entitled Cenas de Amor e Morte na ficção brasileira(Scenes of Love and Death in Brazilian Ficcion), which was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize, in 1996.She retired as Professor of Brazilian Literature at Federal Fluminense University and is a researcher for the CNPq(Nacional Council for Scientific and Technological Development).At present, she does research on the private and public weitings of Brazilian autors. She also provides guidances, as thesis advisor, for Comparative Literature, with enphasis on Studies on Woman and Literatyre and Gender Studies.Her book Cena de amor e Morte na Ficção brasileira(Scenes of Love and Death in Brazikian Fict) was published in Spanish (Cubai, 1997) and in Brazil by EDEFF(1999). In 1997 she published São Bernardo, A Reading Guide(Ática, São Paulo). Among here more recent essays areTinta e Sangue: as relações entre o íntimo e o público em Clarice Lispector e Frida Khalo( Paint and Blood: the relaationship between tha private and public lives of Clarice Lispector and Frida Khalo) ( Revista Estudos Feminista n.11, 2o sem. of203, and o Espaço das mulheres em Memórias do Cárcere(The Space occuped by Women in memórias do Cárcere) ( unpublished work).In 2003 she published with Marcia Ligia Guidin, an anthology of short stories(Contos de Escritoras Brasileiras), Short Stories by Brazilian Women Writers, by Ed. Martins Fontes of São Paulo.She has acted as advisor to the Stage concil for Women's Rights( CEDIM / RJ). She is married to Jayme Antunes Filho, an accountand, and lives in the city of Rio de Janeiro at Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana,828, apto 1101. Translated by John Godinho.

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