Miguel is a coordinator of the Tricontinental (Brazil) office as well as an editor of the Journal of Studies of the Global South (RSG). He has extensive experience in book publishing through the publishing house Expressão Popular in Brazil and is the convener of the International Union of Left Publishers (IULP). He has a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s degree and PhD in comparative literature, and his main research interests are the relationship between art and society, with an emphasis on literary studies as a form of knowledge of reality and of resistance and organisation. He also works with the thought of Florestan Fernandes, mainly in his reflections on dependent capitalism and the dilemmas of Brazilian social formation.