José Bértolo (MA 2015; PhD 2019 - U. Lisbon) is a member of the University of Lisbon Centre for Comparative Studies, where he works within research cluster RIAL - Reality and Imagination in Art and Literature. He was awarded two FCT Scientific Research Grants in the Research Project False Movement: Studies in Writing and Film (Centre for Comparative Studies, 2012-2016) and an FCT PhD fellowship. He has been an Invited Teaching Assistant of Film Analysis, at the ULisbon School of Arts and Humanities (2017-2018). In the field of film studies, he has been doing research on film theory and film philosophy, the relations between film and other arts (literature, photography, painting), film analysis and film history, with an emphasis on Portuguese, French and American cinemas. He authored the books Imagens em Fuga: Os Fantasmas de François Truffaut (Images on the Run: The Ghosts of François Truffaut, 2016), Sobreimpressões: Leituras de Filmes (Superimpositions: Film Readings, 2019), and Espectros do Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira e João Pedro Rodrigues (Specters of Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira and João Pedro Rodrigues, 2020), and co-edited the books A Escrita do Cinema: Ensaios (Film Writing: Essays, w/ C. Rowland, 2015), Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura (Death and Spectrality in Art and Literature, w/ F. Guerreiro, 2019) and Imitações da Vida: Cinema Clássico Americano (Imitations of Life: Classical Hollywood Film, w/ C. Rowland and F. Guerreiro, 2020). He also co-edited (w/ M. Medeiros) a special journal issue of the Journal of Communication and Languages on "Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly" (2020).