Daniela Spina (Ph.D in Comparative Studies, 2020) is a Junior Researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, NOVA University of Lisbon, where she carries out the project “Narrating the Young. A Comparative Study on Representation and Self-Representation of Colonial Youth in South Asia and East Africa: from Colonial Press to Postcolonial Fiction (1930- 1970)”. From 2021 to 2023, she served as a Lecturer in Textual and Comparative Studies at the Università di Verona (Italy). Since 2022, she has been a member of the Executive Board of the IGSCP-PE International Group for Studies of the Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire. Her current research project deepens the study of the postcolonial coming-of-age novel, specifically, novels written by authors of the Indian Ocean region (Zanzibar, Mozambique, Goa, and Sri Lanka), intersecting the representation of colonial youth in postcolonial fiction with self-representations in periodicals edited by young agents during colonialism (1930-1970). Among her latest contributions to the field of Press Studies, there is the essay “Goan Literary History in the Periodical Press: the Works of Jacinto Caetano Barreto Miranda and Vicente de Bragança Cunha,” published in the book The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions (Routledge, 2023).