Faculty

Ana Margarida Abrantes studied English and German at the Universities of Aveiro, Essen and Innsbruck. She holds a Masters Degree in Cognitive Linguistics and a PhD in German Language and Literature, which she completed in 2008 at the Catholic University of Portugal. Between 2006 and 2009 she was visiting scholar at the Center for Semiotics of Aarhus University and at the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, USA. Since 2016 she is a member of the Scientific Board for German Studies of DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

Researcher in the line Culture, Translation and Cognition of CECC, her areas of interest are Culture and Cognition, Language and Cognition, Cognitive Poetics and German Studies.

Diana Gonçalves holds a PhD in Culture Studies (2013) from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Justus-Liebig University of Giessen (double degree). She is currently an Assistant Professor at FCH-UCP, Academic Director of the Lisbon Consortium and Coordinator of the Master’s program in Culture Studies. She is also a researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), where she is a member of the research group “Culture, Art and Conflict”. She was Executive Coordinator of the Lisbon Consortium (2016-2017) and co-editor of the online journal Diffractions – Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture (2013-2017). Her main areas of investigation are culture studies, visual culture, American culture and literature, conflict and violence, environment and catastrophes. She is the author of 9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity (de Gruyter, 2016).

Isabel Capeloa Gil is Full Professor of Culture Studies and the current Rector of UCP – Catholic University of Portugal. She holds a B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Lisbon (1987), and an M.A. in German Studies from the same university (1992), as well as a PhD in German Language and Culture from UCP (2001). She was Guest Professor in Germany (Saarbruecken, Munich), United Kingdom, Ireland (National University of Ireland), Italy (Univ. Ca Foscari, Venice), in Brasil (PUC-Rio) and in the USA (U. Pennsilvania and U. Stanford). She is furthermore an Honorary Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of London. From 2005 to 2012 she was the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the UCP. She has held numerous visiting professorships at universities in the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Italy, Ireland and Wales. She was a founder of The Lisbon Consortium network and leads the International Doctoral Degree Program in Culture Studies. She is also a senior researcher and founder of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture. 

Joana Moura holds Doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2017) and is currently (since 2018) Invited Assistant Professor at FCH, where she teaches languages and translation (English/German). She is a member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture, working in the Literature and The Global Contemporary project. She also collaborates with the MOV. Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives and Archives in Translation at the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon. Her main reserach interests lie in the areas of German culture and literature and in translation studies, focusing on genetic translation studies and fictional representations of translator and translation figures in literature and film.

Luísa Leal de Faria is Full Professor in the FCH – Faculty of Human Sciences, UCP – the Catholic University of Portugal, where she served as Vice-Rector between 2004 and 2012. She graduated in Germanic Philology from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, where she was also awarded the degree of Doctor with the Aggregate title status. She remained with the Faculty of Letters where she developed her academic career through to 2004. She served as General Higher Education Subdirector, National Coordinator of the European Língua and Sócrates Programs, Vice-President of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Letters, Director of the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Letters, among other academic positions. She currently lectures various curricular units on the Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral Degree programs at the FCH, UCP and undertakes research primarily within the field of Culture Studies.

Luísa Santos – Ph.D in Culture Studies by the Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, in Berlin, and M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art by the Royal College of Art, in London, Luísa Santos is an Assistant Researcher, in Culture Studies / Artistic Studies, since 2016 at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is an associate curator of the Listening Biennial (headquarters in Berlin) since 2022 and a member of the advisory board of the HANGAR, in Lisbon.

An independent curator since 2009, she conducted research in curatorial practices at the Konstfack, in Stockholm, in 2013; since 2019, she is a research fellow at The European School of Governance (EUSG), in Berlin; and, since 2023, she is a teaching fellow at the Europaeum, in Oxford. She is the artistic director of the 4Cs: from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, the Arctic Routes, Southern Ways, and the Institution(ing)s. These experiences enabled her to collaborate with the European Commission as an expert evaluator in 2024. 

She has collaborated with various institutions such as Tensta Konsthall, SAVVY Contemporary – Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Fundació Antoni Tápies, Museet for Samtidskunst, P28, Gulbenkian Museum, Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa, Anozero Biennial, Frankfurter Kunstvrein, and OK-Centrum. Having authored various publications in the domains of art and society, Luísa Santos is, since 2021, editing a book series on the politics of immaterial cultures with the Routledge. 

Peter Hanenberg is the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, Director of Católica Doctoral School (CADOS). PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Bamberg, Germany, in 1993, since 2006 Associate Professor at FCH. From 1988 to 1995 assistant professor at the University of Bamberg and between 1995 and 2006 coordinator of German Studies at the Faculty of Letters of UCP in Viseu. President of the Portuguese German Studies Association (APEG) 2006-2010. Member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) which he coordinates since 2012. 2016-2019 Vice-dean of FCH. His research is dedicated to European literature and culture since the 16th century, the idea of Europe and its representation as well as the intersection of Cognitive Sciences and Culture Studies.

Rita Bueno Maia holds a PhD in Translation History. Following her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies between 2014 and 2016. Her postdoctoral project The Moveable Feast: Literature in Portuguese Exile deals with popular novels, translated and non-translated, published in Portuguese in Paris by the mid-19th century She has a B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures and a taught-MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Lisbon. She has been teaching Spanish as a foreign language since 2011 and has taught modules on research methodology in Translation History. She is a freelance translator working in the tourism industry and has also published literary translations. Regarding future publications, she is currently co-editing a special issue of Translation Studies (Taylor and Francis Group) entitled Indirect Translation: Theoretical, Methodological and Terminological Issues and the volume Los límites del Hispanismo: nuevos métodos, nuevas fronteras, nuevos géneros (Peter Lang).

Verena Lindemann Lino holds a PhD in Culture Studies form Universidade Católica Portuguesa and University of Giessen (double degree). Since 2022 she is invited assistant professor at the  Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is a researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture where she is currently developing the projects Archives of (In)hospitality. She is a member of the editorial board of Diffractions – Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture. Her main research areas include transculturality, (trans)cultural memory, translation theory and comparative literature. She edited, among others, Negotiations of Migration (De Gruyter 2021) and is the author of Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal (De Gruyter 2021) as well as several articles on transcultural phenomena, memory and translation.