Sarah da Rocha Valente is visiting assistant professor at the School of Arts & Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas. As a Belofsky Fellow at the University’s Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, Valente wrote her doctoral dissertation on post-Holocaust Jewish memoirs in Brazil. Valente is a Fellow of the Stephen S. Weinstein Symposium at Wroxton College, England, and studied at the Leo Baeck Summer University at Humboldt Universität in Germany. She has published book chapters on Holocaust memoirs and Jewish memory. Valente has presented her research at numerous academic conferences throughout the United States and in Israel. Valente is editor-at-large for Reunion: The Dallas Review, after serving as editor-in-chief of the literary journal for two volumes, and a cellist in a community orchestra.