Francesca Negro is independent researcher in Comparative Studies and performing arts. She has a M.A. in Italian Literature a Ph.D in Comparative Literature and a Masters degree in Performance Studies. She also owns a Masters Degree in Teaching Italian as second language (University of Genoa). She has taught at BA and MA levels both in Italy, Portugal, and provided pastoral and academic tuition and research supervision to BA and MA students. In 2007 she got a Post-doc fellowship which allowed her to start a long-lasting collaboration with CEC, and more specifically with groups THELEME and CITCOM, working respectively on Inter-art studies and Postcolonial Cultural studies and Literature. In 2014 She got a post-doc fellowship from King's College London to join the Project: Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures, with which she also collaborated afterwards as Research consultant. In the last few years she has been working at the University of Lisbon as Visiting Professor of Inter-artistic Comparative Studies and Intercultural communication, while also teaching Italian Language and Culture. She has developed teamwork and organizational skills in relation to organization of academic events and teaching curricula. She has also been invited as guest speaker in conferences and courses in Portugal, Italy, UK and US. In 2019 she published her first monograph "Deuses em Cena" on the theatricalization of religious dances of African origin in Cuba (Lisbon, Colibri: 2019), which is result of a long archive research and fieldwork in Havana and Santiago. She is co-author of two international articles on Afro-Brasilian Literature. She was co-organizer of the International Conference Oral Memory of Africans and People of African Descent (Lisbon, December 2019) and co-editor of the book deriving from the conference, which will be published by Cambridge Scholars (UK). In relation with the field of Interart Studies her most recent activities have been the edition of the collective volumes "Proust e As Artes" and "Oral memories" both coming out in 2022, and the direction of a laboratory of translation at FLUL, which will have as outcome the Italian translation and critical edition of the volume ¿O Atlas do corpo e da Imaginação¿ by Gonçalo M. Tavares. In relation to the field of Poscultural and African-diasporic studies she completing the Italian translation and critical edition of an unpublished musical play written by the Afro-descendant Brazilian poet Solano Trindade. On this topic she developed archive research work in Rio de Janeiro and Embu das Artes(SP) establishing a collaboration with the Populat Theatre Solano Trindade. She has been invited by the Theatre Art Imagem to present her work on this topic and to join the scientific commission for the study of Black theatre in Portugal (Porto 2022). In 2019 she has been invited to present her book "Deuses em cena" at the University of Rio de Janeiro, at the University of São João del Rei, at University Nove de Julho in São Paulo, as well as at the School of Art and Humanities and the Angolan Cultural Centre in Florence. She has also been invited to several Conferences and events to expose her researches on the relationship between Brazilian and Angolan Carnival, reflecting on common symbolic kinetic elements (Duke 2020; London 2017). On this topic she had developed some field work in 2017 in Luanda, in collaboration with the Angolan Ministry of Culture and the Committee for the organization of the local Carnival. She recently joined the international group of research on ¿Archipelagic Memory. Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines organized by King's College London, the University of Joannesburg, the University of Mauritius with the support of the ERC. She is also freelance consultant and translation quality checker for the company Lionbridge, which provides Translation and Localization for Global Enterprises, and free-lance translator.