Vera Gajiu is a researcher in French and Francophone literature. She obtained her PhD through a joint doctoral programme at the University of Verona (Italy) and Université Paris 8 (France). Since 2021, she has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Ferrara, and since 2025, she has been pursuing her Habilitation at the University of Passau (Germany).

Her research lies at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies, queer theory, and Law and Humanities, with a particular focus on reproductive discourses and imaginaries, reproductive justice, and the relationships between literature, law, and human rights. Her recent work explores queer subjectivities, the refusal of motherhood, and the reconfiguration of legal and cultural categories of parenthood.