Naomi Hoki Moniz, is presently Associate Professor, and is the director of Portuguese Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Professor Moniz completed her Ph.D. in Nineteenth (19th) and Twentieth (20th) Century Brazilian and Portuguese Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University where she also was an Assistant Professor before coming to Georgetown University.

She is the author of numerous scholarly articles published in the USA, Europe and Brazil, among which are From Symbol do Allegory: the corrosion of meaning in Scliar? short-stories, Orientalism in Romantic Brazilian Literature, The Apple or the Egg: Clarice Lispecto", The Immigrant as a Subject in Brazilian Literature, The Stone Raft: José Saramago.

Her research interests are in Brazilian, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, concentrate on modernism and postmodernism, identity formation, cultural hegemony and difference and feminist studies. Her present work is about the cultural production of the Japanese immigrants in Brazil and the manner in which they negotiate their own identity vis-a-vis a Brazilian national identity.