Faculty

Adriana Martins is Associate Professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she also obtained her Habilitation in Culture Studies. She coordinates the scientific area of Culture Studies since 2019. Between 2011 and 2019 she was the FCH International Relations Coordinator. She has taught in the Universities of Utrecht (The Netherlands), LUMSA (Italy) and Pázmány Péter Catholic (Hungary). She is a Senior Member of CECC, integrating the team of the research line on Culture, Art and Conflict. She has published widely on Culture Studies with a focus on Film Studies and on Comparative Literature.

Alexandra Lopes holds a PhD in Translation Studies from UCP.  She is currently Associate Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences and member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture. At the Centre, she coordinates the research group ‘Literature and the Global Contemporary’.

Her most recent publications include the co-edition of The Age of Translation. Early 20th-century Concepts and Debates (Peter Lang, 2017) and of Mediations of Disruption in Post-conflict Cinema (Palgrave Macmilan, 2016). She has many articles published in national and international volumes.

She has participated in research projects, such as Culture@Work (funded by the Culture Programme of the EU) e Lugares de O’Neill (funded by Gulbenkian Foundation).

As a translator, she has rendered into Portuguese Peter Handke’s Versuch über den geglückten Tag (1994; revised edition: 2020), Herta Müller’s herztier (1999) and Salman Rushdie’s Fury (2002), among others.

Research areas: Translation History, Literary Studies, Culture Studies

Ana Fabíola Maurício – Co-founder and co-curator of the independent curatorial project “nanogaleria” since September 2018 with Luísa Santos. She is Deputy Director of Católica Doctoral School (CADOS) since September 2023. She was Head of the Research and Innovation Office of UCP (Jan. 2018-Sep. 2023). She was also Project Manager and Researcher for the European Cooperation Project “4Cs – From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture”, co-funded by the “Creative Europe: Culture” programme of the European Commission, coordinated by the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH-UCP) (Jul. 2017-Dec. 2021).

Senior Researcher at CECC | FCH-UCP (Research Centre for Communication and Culture) since 2016, and Junior Researcher since 2010; her research focuses on contemporary art and its contribution to the development of the cultural panorama of societies. She was a recipient of an ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Collaborative Project Workshop Grant with the project “Teaching in the Era of Digital Humanities: a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective” with three postdoctoral colleagues from Goethe Univ., Frankfurt, Germany; Stockholm Univ., Sweden; and Milan Univ., Italy.

Ana Fabíola Maurício holds a double-program Ph.D. (2016) in Culture Studies by The Lisbon Consortium, FCH-UCP, and in Literary and Cultural Studies by the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany (co-tutelle European Ph.D. Network – Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Finland). She was awarded a Ph.D. grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2011-2015). She finished her M.A. degree in Media Studies, specialising in Cultural Management and Communication in 2010, and her B.A. degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English-French) in 2007 at FCH-UCP.

Between 2008 and 2009 she worked for the Education Department of history and art museums of Lisbon City Council, having developed, and implemented pedagogical projects. She has participated and presented papers in multiple national and international conferences, symposia, and summer schools since 2009, having worked in the organisation of several academic programmes and events for the CECC as Scientific Research Assistant as well as for The Lisbon Consortium as Project Officer between 2008 and 2012. Since 2010 she has published articles, interviews, translations, and chapters in several books and journals, and since 2018 she has co-curated exhibitions and co-written and published a series of exhibition catalogues. Her co-curatorial projects with Luísa Santos include exhibitions at Appleton – Cultural Association, Amélia de Mello Foundation Gallery – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Paços – Torres Vedras Municipal Gallery, Ocupart/Livraria Sá da Costa, Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm, Sweden).

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.

Carla Ganito holds a PhD in Communication Sciences. She is Associate Professor and Coordinator of International Relations at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (FCH- UCP). Carla Ganito is a main researcher at CECC where she coordinates the group on “Digital Literacy and Cultural Change”. She has been an MC member of the COST Action IS1404 – Evolution of reading in the age of digitization (E-READ). 

Carla Ganito lectures in the fields of digital communication, cyberculture, digital transformation. Her research has four main axes: mobile technologies, gender and technology, digital literacy, namely digital reading, and digital life and cultural change. Since 2017 she has been developing a research project on connecting and disconnecting across the life stages, focusing on digital death, and digital rights.

From the most recent publications: (2018) “Gendering old age: The role of mobile phones in the experience of aging for women”, IGI; (2017) “Gendering the mobile phone: A life course approach”, in Digital Technologies and Generational Identity: ICT Usage Across the Life Course, Routledge [book chapter]; (2016) “Women Speak: Gendering the Mobile Phone”, UCP [book]

Cátia Ferreira holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is currently Assistant Professor at FCH-UCP and coordinator of the BA in Social and Cultural Communication and of the Post-Graduate Course in Communication and Content Marketing: Content Marketing Strategies for the Digital Context. She has been a researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture since 2008. She has participated in several national and international research projects, to highlight the ongoing participation in the Research project of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid: ‘Las nuevas competências de la prensa deportiva de papel en el futuro ecossistema digital’ and in the European research project: COMPACT: Social Media and Convergence, funded by the European Union, Horizon 2020. She has also integrated several actions of the European COST network, funded by the European Science Foundation. Her areas of research and teaching focus on digital media studies, particularly on: digital games, social media and mobile devices, audiovisual and multimedia communication, emerging content production strategies, such as transmedia and cross-media, content marketing and digital reading and publishing.

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.

Jorge Fazenda Lourenço is Associate Professor at the FCH – Faculty of Human Sciences, UCP, where he has lectured since 1993, the year when he obtained his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, at Santa Barbara, with a thesis on The Poetry of Jorge de Sena: Witness, Metamorphosis, Pilgrimage, published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre (Paris, 1998). He has published works on Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa and Jorge de Sena, of whom he is the coordinator of the Complete Works edition (Guimarães Editores). His activities as a researcher have focused on the literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries, on studying Bildungsroman and on questions interrelated with aesthetic modernity, having translated works by E. E. Cummings (xix poems, 1991), Wallace Stevens (Harmónio, 2006) and Charles Baudelaire (O Spleen de Paris, 2007), about whom he organised and wrote the preface to an anthology of critical essays (A Invenção da Modernidade, 2006). He co-edited the minutes to the conferences: the Spanish Civil War: Crossing Borders, 70 Years After (2007), Baudelaire and the Posterities of the Modern (2008) and Jorge de Sena: New Perspectives, 30 Years After (2009). His most recent work, Matéria Cúmplice. Cinco Aberturas e um Prelúdio para Jorge de Sena, won the Jorge de Sena 2012 Award.

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 holds a PhD 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 Assistant Researcher, in Culture Studies / Artistic Studies, since 2019. Between 2016 and 2019, she was Assistant Professor, with a Gulbenkian Professorship, at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is a research fellow at The European School of Governance (EUSG), in Berlin, since 2019. In 2013 she conducted research in curatorial practices at the Konstfack, in Stockholm. Researcher at the CECC, she is the coordinator of the 4Cs: from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. Luísa Santos sits in the editorial and scientific boards of the peer-reviewed magazines Estúdio, Gama, and Croma and of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS – Research Group Moving Image Kiel), Büchner-Verlag. Luísa Santos also collaborates in the Arts-based participatory research approach: Potential for exploring Asian-Canadian youth identities through an intersectionality lens, a research project coordinated at the York University. Her main areas of research are contemporary art and social systems. She has authored various publications in the domains of art and society. 

Nelson Ribeiro (PhD in Communication and Culture Studies, University of Lincoln) is the  is the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences where he also Coordinates the Doctoral Programme in Communication Studies. Member of the Board at the Research Center for Communication and Culture (CECC), he coordinates the research group “Media Narratives and Cultural Memory”. Ribeiro is affiliated with the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 he was the recipient of a fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for his research on the relations between Radio Free Europe, the American government, and the Portuguese dictatorship during the Cold War. Presently he is the Chair of the Communication History section at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). He is the founding director of the Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication, organized in partnership with the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (University of Southern California) and the University of Helsinki. His main research interests are media history, propaganda and disinformation, media and colonialism and journalism studies.

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.

Ricardo Ferreira Reis is Assistant Professor of Accounting, holds a PhD in Business Science and Applied Economics, Wharton School, U. Pennsylvania, USA and a BA in Economics, University of Porto. Prof. Reis teaches Financial Accounting at the MBA, Undergraduate and Executive Education levels at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. His areas of interest in research are based on informational economics, with an emphasis on Accounting, ranging from agency theory to corporate governance. He previously taught both Cost and Financial Accounting at The Wharton School. Before that, he was attending the Doctorate and Masters Degree in Economics at Universidade Nova in Lisbon, where he also taught a wide range of courses in Economics and Business. Prof. Reis was a consultant for the then Lisbon Stock Exchange and the Porto Derivatives Exchange and he worked as a credit risk analyst for investment banking earlier in his career.

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).

Sara Eckerson is Invited Assistant Professor at FCH-UCP. She received her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies, with a specialization in Literary Theory, from the University of Lisbon (2016), an MA from the same institution (2009), and a BA from New York University (2006). Her main areas of research are in aesthetics and literary studies, specifically musical hermeneutics, the philosophy of music, and connections between music and literature; her research focuses on the music of Beethoven and Handel, as well as on the literary works of John Milton and Herman Melville. She is the author of numerous publications in this area, including on the philosophy of music (Teorema), Handel and Milton (Yale Journal of Music and Religion), Beethoven (Manchester Beethoven Studies, published by the Manchester University Press), and has collaborated with the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press).

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.