Departures of note

Maria Lúcia Campanha da Rocha Ribeiro, known as Malu Ribeiro, was a Brazilian journalist, professor, and researcher from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. She co-founded the Grupo Divulgação in 1966 alongside her husband, José Luiz Ribeiro, a theater group that became one of the leading references of theater in the city and was registered as an intangible cultural heritage of the municipality. Within the group she also worked as an actress and as its most important costume designer over its history.

Trained in Journalism and Letters at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Malu taught and researched at the university for decades. She lectured in the master's and doctoral programs in Letters, in the research line of Literature and Other Cultural Practices, with work related to theater and image, and taught the Semiotics of the Spectacle course in the Faculty of Communication.

Her career spanned more than six decades, linking theatrical production with teaching and research in communication, literature, and the arts, and influencing generations of students, artists, and audiences in Juiz de Fora. She died on September 8, 2026, at the age of 84.