José Endoença Martins is an Afro-Brazilian professor, researcher and writer. As a professor, he is a faculty member at UNIFACVEST, where he teaches Literature of African Descent to graduate students.

As a researcher, he develops studies on afrodiasporic literary tradition. As a writer he has written more than twenty books, among which are the novel O Dom de Casmurro, the research Fictionalizing Signifying in Toni Morrison’s Novels, and short stories The Wrong Color of Shakespeare.