Federico Bossone, Editor-in-chief
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7059-3281

Federico Bossone is a second year PhD student in Culture Studies and lecturer in German at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His ongoing research examines the construction of identity in museums and heritage sites, specifically focusing on how Jewish identity has been constructed in German and Portuguese musealised environments. He graduated in Museum Studies and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (M.A.) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. Between 2020 and 2022, he was a resident Teaching and Research Fellow at the same institution where he has been teaching undergraduate seminars since 2018. His research interests include museums and identity, discourse and culture, religious cultures, and gender studies.

Rissa Miller, Editor-in-chief
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
Adjunct Faculty, Montgomery College School of Art
Program Development, Faculty, Borromini Institute
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4840-4755

Rissa Miller is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, and works  in the area(s) of the Humanities, with emphasis on Art history and Gastronomic Studies. She  teaches art theory at Montgomery College School of Art + Design, USA, and holds a BA in Socio-Anthropology, a BFA in Painting, an MA in Art History, and a culinary diploma in French cuisine and pastry from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. As a trans-disciplinary artist and academic, she places her work at the intersection of art history, aesthetics, and food culture in the Mediterranean context with a special focus on early Modern Italian art and foodways. In addition to her current research on marzipan and memory in the Mediterranean, Rissa designs programs in food culture for the Borromini Institute in Rome, Italy.

Aishwarya Kumar, Board Member
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5460-6951

Aishwarya Kumar is a first-year PhD candidate in Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and an FCT scholarship holder. A practice-based researcher, her work is positioned at intersections of corporeality, curation and decolonial spatial formations. With a B. Des in Information Arts from India and an RMA in Performance Studies from the Netherlands, she has worked as a performer, art director, curator, and creative producer in film, theater and visual and applied arts. Her recent work and writings are available through Transmission in Motion (2020), Junctions Journal (2021), ARIAS, Amsterdam (2022), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), and 4K/less (2023). In the past, she has been on the advisory board of SPHERE. She has also been involved in curatorial capacities with Instytut B61, IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], and G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture.

Amadea Kovič, Board Member
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7059-3281

Amadea Kovič is a PhD candidate at the International Doctoral Program in Culture Studies of the Lisbon Consortium at the Faculty of Human Sciences – Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She obtained her Master's degree (2019) and a Bachelor's degree (2016) in History of Art and Slovene Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. During her Master's studies, she completed two semesters under the Erasmus+ Programme: the first one at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (2018) and the second one at L'École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (2019). Her ongoing PhD project research revolves around contemporary feminist visual art in Portugal and Slovenia. Her ongoing research has been supported by the EDP Foundation and CECC through funding by FCT.

Emily Duffy, Board Member
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3635-9077

Emily Duffy is a second-year PhD student in Translation Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon and NOVA University. She holds a BA in English Literature from Ursinus College (2015) and received her MFA Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University (2018). She has received fellowships and residencies from Boulder Creative Collective, FLAD/ Disquiet International. Her first book of poetry, Hemorrhaging Want and Water, was published by Perennial Press in 2023. Her ongoing research examines the intersections of literary translation, intimacy, paratext, and translator testimony.

Hugo Sousa Simões, Board Member
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7059-3281

Hugo Sousa Simões is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal, currently working on a dissertation on the Jeeves series of books by P.G Wodehouse. He holds a BA in Law from the University of Lisbon, an MA in Culture Studies from UCP, and has worked as an actor, writer, director and translator. He holds an FCT scholarship. In the Summer of 2022 he was a Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and in the Summer of 2023 a Guest Researcher at the University of Warwick. His fiction and poetry have been published in Southwest Review, The Rio Grande Review and Across the Margin, among other journals. His TV work includes co-writing, co-directing and starring in the comedy series A Bola Maciça.

Inês Ferreira Fernandes, Board Member
Researcher, Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8206-183X

Inês Ferreira Fernandes is a second year PhD student in the doctoral program of Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Human Sciences from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She holds a master's degree in communication sciences from the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, from Universidade de Lisboa, with a dissertation on journalism in conflict areas, titled "Dois Olhares sobre o jornalismo em áreas de conflito: o jornalístico e o militar – Kosovo". She also has an undergraduate in Communication Sciences, with a specialization in international journalism, from the same institution. Her main research interests include journalism in conflict areas, war journalism, censorship, propaganda, Portuguese dictatorship, history and journalism studies.

 

Advisory Board

Isabel Capeloa Gil
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Peter Hanenberg
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Alexandra Lopes
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Xavier Antich
University of Girona, Spain

Norval Baitello Júnior
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brasil

Elisabeth Bronfen
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Xiaomei Chen
UC Davis, United States

André Lepecki
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, United States

Paulo de Medeiros
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Javier Maderuelo Raso
Universidad de Alcalá, Spain

António Sousa Ribeiro
University of Coimbra, Portugal

Frederik Tygstrup
Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Denmark

Roberto Vecchi
University of Bologna, Italy

Liliane Weissberg
University of Pennsylvania, United States

Christoph Wulf
Free University Berlin, Germany