Francesca Negro is independent researcher in Comparative Literature, Dance 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 at CEComp, working on Inter-art studies and Postcolonial Cultural studies and Literature. In 2014 She was granted 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 Palgrave macmillan in 2026. Other recent activities have been the edition of the collective volumes "Proust e As Artes" 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. 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 (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 is often invited to academic events to expose her researches on the relationship between Dance-Theatre and Sociopolitical dynamics in the context of post-colonialism. In 2025 she joined the Research group in Ethnomusicology INET at Faculdade Nova de Lisboa as integrated member. Dr. Negro's academic trajectory was developed in parallel with her artistic studies: she is a dancer with professional experience (https://www.francescanegro.com) in Flamenco (2000-2004), Brazilian (2008-2012), Afro-latin and Afro-Cuban traditional dances (2010-present). Among her many artistic trainings we can mention the Theatre course attended in Italy (Teatro della Tosse, Genova) Modern dance technique seminars, the many Afro-cuban and Latin American dances trainings in Cuba (Universidad de las Artes, Havana) the trainings in various African dances attended in Paris (centre Momboye) and the Classic and Contemporary dance courses and trainings in Choreographic production attended both in Paris and Lisbon (Escola Superior de Dança) as independent student. She also studies the piano and Afro-Caribbean traditional percussions; her interest for music is an ancient passion, a knowledge that she considers essential to complement any kind of dance studies. She is an intellectual with artistic sensibility, and she believes in the association of academic rigor and artistic intuition, and in the epistemological value of artistic practices.