My research investigates the role of somatic experience, critical thinking, and social memory within dance education. I am currently a Doctoral Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University, where I continue to explore how dance serves as an archive of resistance and knowledge.

• Silva, M., & Vieira, M. A. (2024). Good news: A commitment to resistance through the movement of bodies. In N. Calderón & A. Roa Márquez (Eds.), The body of memory: Spaces and archives in resistance (pp. 86–110). Universidad de la República & Universidad Veracruzana. México.

• Silva, M. (2022). Management in Motion. In Artist-Researchers and Knowledge Production from the Stage. Volume III: A Philosophy of Theatrical Praxis (pp. 413–420). Fondo Editorial ENSAD (Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático) Peru.

• Silva, M. (2020). Challenges of Dance Research in Academia: From School to Faculty. In Which Dances Are Yet to Come? Transit, Poetics, and Politics of the Body (pp. 36–42). ANDA (Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em Dança) Brasil.

• Silva, M. (2007). Art Education: History of Dance. In Art Education. LIMA: El Comercio S.A. Peru.