Tiago Silva is a professor of English and Anglophone Literatures at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and a CNPq Postdoctoral Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), affiliated with the MERLIT research group. He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the Federal University of Pernambuco, where he specialized in the life and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. He previously completed postdoctoral research at the Federal University of Sergipe, and his current work focuses on Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, specifically literary and cultural representations of Brazil. Since 2023, he has led REBRALLI, a research group dedicated to analysing portrayals of Brazil within Anglophone contexts.