Ricardo Martins is currently pursuing his PhD in Lusophone literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests range from literature of the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, as well as cinema, music, and video games in Brazil, particularly those from and about the favelas (slums). He is currently working on his dissertation, focusing on the fetish about favelas in literature and cinema throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In his free time, he researches old video games and gaming culture.