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David Pinho Barros (Porto, 1986) is a professor, researcher and curator in the fields of literature, film and comics. He holds a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Porto, an MA in Communication Sciences from the New University of Lisbon, a PhD in Literature from the KU Leuven and a PhD in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies from the University of Porto, with a thesis elaborated under a cotutelle agreement between both institutions. Since 2008, he worked as a curator and producer of exhibitions and film events in Portugal, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Brazil, and taught film and comics history and analysis at the Alliance Française, at the University of Porto, at the University of Minho, at the New University of Lisbon and at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is a researcher at the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature and, since 2021, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where he is part of the Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies. Among other publications on cinema and the sequential arts, he is the author of the monograph "The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach", released by Leuven University Press. He is also an external expert of the European Commission, working as an evaluator of the Creative Europe and COST programmes.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
David Pinho Barros

Citation names

  • Pinho Barros, David

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1E15-2970-D956
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1186-7147

Email addresses

  • dbarros@letras.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Dutch Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020
Concluded
Estudos Literários, Culturais e Interartísticos (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Literatura e Cultura - Estudos Comparatistas
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011
Concluded
Ciências da Comunicação (Mestrado)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
"Do Elogio da Sombra ao Enterro do Sol: Luz e Cor no Cinema da Nuberu Bagu Japonesa" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2008
Concluded
Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2021 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2014 - 2021 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2012 - 2013 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Pinho Barros, David. Grande Urso-Gato. Porto, Portugal: Limina. 2025.
    Published
  2. Pinho Barros, David; Blanc, Guilherme. Grand Tour. Portugal: Batalha Centro de Cinema. 2024.
    Published
  3. Pinho Barros, David. The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach. Belgium: Leuven University Press. 2022.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "Drawing from Ozu: An intermedial consideration on clear line illustrations based on film frames". In Adaptation and Illustration: New Cartographies. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
    Published
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "À propos de virages : Sagan par Rébéna". In Bonjour tristesse 1954-2024. France: Classiques Garnier, 2024.
    Published
  3. Pinho Barros, David. "Agustina espectadora de cinema". In Agustina leitora. Leituras de Agustina. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2023.
    Published
  4. Pinho Barros, David. "L'aérolithe bascule ! La ligne claire à l'épreuve dans un Arctique imaginé". In Tintin aujourd'hui : Images & imaginaires. Switzerland: Georg, 2021.
    Published
  5. Pinho Barros, David; Crucifix, Benoît. "Bande dessinée et cinema: Arts parallèles ou entrecroisés ?". In Bande annonce (cinéma et bande dessinée). France: -zeug, 2019.
    Published
  6. Pinho Barros, David; Luke, Bren. "Mylodon". In Bande annonce (cinéma et bande dessinée). France: -zeug, 2019.
    Published
  7. Pinho Barros, David. "As Cidades Obscuras e suas periferias transmediais: o caso Desombres". In Ofício Múltiplo: Poetas em Outras Artes. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2018.
    Published
  8. Pinho Barros, David. "(À Suivre) et le cinéma". In (À Suivre) : Archives d'une revue culte. France: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2018.
    Published
  9. Pinho Barros, David. "La ligne claire perpétuée par (À Suivre)". In (À Suivre) : Archives d'une revue culte. France: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2018.
    Published
  10. Pinho Barros, David. "Une étoile lointaine : Daniel Torres et la linea clara dans (À Suivre)". In (À Suivre) : Archives d'une revue culte. France: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2018.
    Published
  11. Pinho Barros, David. "Un hors-série Hergé en 1983". In (À Suivre) : Archives d'une revue culte. France: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2018.
    Published
  12. Pinho Barros, David. "Nagisa Ôshima (1932-2013)". In O Cinema Não Morreu, Crítica e Cinefilia À pala de Walsh. Portugal: Livraria Linha de Sombra, 2017.
    Published
  13. Pinho Barros, David. "Cogumelo pequeno, cogumelo grande: Proporção e relativismo no apocalipse de "L'Étoile mystérieuse"". In Materiais para o Fim do Mundo. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2016.
    Published
  14. Pinho Barros, David. "Deux coordonnées pour Le Marin de Gibraltar: le roman de Duras, le film de Richardson". In Marguerite Duras: Palavras e Imagens da Insistência. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2015.
    Published
  15. Pinho Barros, David. "Édipos, Sísifos e Onis: Reescrita de Mitos em Matsumoto, Teshigahara e Shindô". In Teatro do Mundo - A Reescrita de Mitos no Teatro. Portugal: Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto, 2012.
    Published
  16. Pinho Barros, David. "Da Sombra à Luz: Tradição e Inovação na Nova Vaga do Cinema Japonês". In Teatro do Mundo - Tradição e vanguardas: Cenas de uma conversa inacabada. Portugal: Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto, 2011.
    Published
  17. Pinho Barros, David. "Pardon me, but my teeth are in your neck: Os caminhos da perversão no cinema de Roman Polanski". In Cadernos de Literatura Comparada - Artes da Perversão. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2009.
    Published
  18. Pinho Barros, David. "Robert Bresson ou O Anti-Teatro, a Graça e o Crime". In Teatro do Mundo - What’s our Life? A Play of Passion - Lugares do Palco, Espaços da Cidade. Portugal: Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto, 2008.
    Published
Book review
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "As cartas-fantasma do cinema: 'Desconhecido na Morada' de Clara Rowland". (2026):
    Published
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Greice Schneider. What Happens When Nothing Happens: Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Comics. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2016.". 42, 1 (2017):
    Published
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "Angle". In Key Terms in Comics Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
    Published
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Perspective". In Key Terms in Comics Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
    Published
  3. Pinho Barros, David. "Vanishing Point". In Key Terms in Comics Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
    Published
  4. Pinho Barros, David. "François Truffaut". In Ulyssei@s. Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, 2014.
    Published
Exhibition catalog
  1. Pinho Barros, David. Trinta estampas e um panda: Algumas notas sobre Grande Urso-Gato. Limina, 2026.
Journal article
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "Light and Colour in the Nuberu Bagu Japanese Cinema". Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies 1 (2016):
    Published
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Literatura e arte nos documentários pedagógicos de Eric Rohmer e Manuel Guimarães". Encontros de Cinema: Conferência Internacional 2013 (2014):
    Published
  3. Pinho Barros, David. "WH/WH". Caderno Hestórico 2 (2013):
    Published
  4. Pinho Barros, David. "Walt Disney's Peter Pan". e-f@bulações: Revista electrónica de literatura infantil 1 (2007):
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "La Mémoire fermentée : Entre souvenir et fantaisie". Intercâmbio : Revue d'Études Françaises (2024):
    Under revision • Invited editor
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Holiday Poetics: Summer Leisure and the Narrative Arts". Imaginaires (2023):
    Published • Invited editor
  3. Pinho Barros, David; Reyns-Chikuma, Chris. "Lewis Trondheim". Image [&] Narrative 19 3 (2018):
    Published • Invited editor
Magazine article
  1. Pinho Barros, David; Eiras, Pedro. "Vai~e~Vem #56: a escrita do desejo", À Pala de Walsh, 2024
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Sobre uma imagem adormecida", À Pala de Walsh, 2021
  3. Pinho Barros, David; Patrício, Miguel. "Vai~e~Vem #6: mulheres - insectos", À Pala de Walsh, 2019
  4. Pinho Barros, David; N. Lourenço, Inês; Mata, Duarte; Mendonça, Luís. "In memoriam: Milos Forman (1932-2018)", À Pala de Walsh, 2018
  5. Pinho Barros, David. "Hergé (Paris)", L'Exporateur littéraire : carnet de visites, 2017
  6. Pinho Barros, David; Goufo Zemmo, Leslie; Busi Rizzi, Giorgio. "Poetics of the Algorithm: A Report", Comics Forum, 2017
  7. Pinho Barros, David. "La Ragazza della Salina (1957) de Frantisek Cáp", À Pala de Walsh, 2017
  8. Pinho Barros, David; N. Lourenço, Inês; Mendonça, Luís; Gonçalves, Carlota. "Pour toujours, Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017)", À Pala de Walsh, 2017
  9. Pinho Barros, David; Patrício, Miguel. "Kirin Kiki: Eu não gosto mesmo nada de representar", À Pala de Walsh, 2017
  10. Pinho Barros, David; Crucifix, Benoît. "Bibliographie commentée : bande dessinée et cinéma", La Brèche, Jeune Recherche en Bande Dessinée, 2016
  11. Pinho Barros, David. "O outro lado da sujidade: uma introdução a Jane Arden", À Pala de Walsh, 2016
  12. Pinho Barros, David. "Afurika Monogatari (1980) de Susumu Hani e Simon Trevor", À Pala de Walsh, 2015
  13. Pinho Barros, David. "L'Affaire Desombres (2001) de Benoît Peeters e François Schuiten", À Pala de Walsh, 2015
  14. Pinho Barros, David. "Death Mills (1945) de Billy Wilder", À Pala de Walsh, 2014
  15. Pinho Barros, David. "A Categoria Blacksad", ESC:ALA, 2014
  16. Pinho Barros, David. "Bamako", MICAR — Mostra Internacional de Cinema Anti-Racista, 2014
  17. Pinho Barros, David. "Entrevista a David Pinho Barros", Waribashi, 2013
  18. Pinho Barros, David. "Nagisa Ôshima (1932-2013)", À Pala de Walsh, 2013
  19. Pinho Barros, David. "Bwana Kitoko (1955) de André Cauvin", À Pala de Walsh, 2013
  20. Pinho Barros, David. "Goketsu Jiraiya (1921) de Shôzô Makino", À Pala de Walsh, 2013
  21. Pinho Barros, David. "Sanma no Aji (1962) de Yasujirô Ozu", À Pala de Walsh, 2013
  22. Pinho Barros, David. "Louis Lumière (1968) de Éric Rohmer", À Pala de Walsh, 2012
  23. Pinho Barros, David; Rodrigues, Joana. "24H no Porto com Joana Matos Frias", Up, 2011
  24. Pinho Barros, David. "Maus", Revista Cultural da AEFLUP, 2007
Newsletter article
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "Bren Luke - Drawings inspired by the films of Yasujiro Ozu (and other work)", 2018
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Belle Toujours", Ciclo integral da obra de Manoel de Oliveira "Grande Plano", 2015
Preface / Postscript
  1. Pinho Barros, David. "Germaine Dulac entre cinema e texto". Preface to O que é o cinema? E outros textos sobre a sétima arte. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa / Edições Afrontamento. 2023.
    Published
  2. Pinho Barros, David. "Jan Baetens e as artes esquecidas". Preface to A Fotonovela: O Estereótipo como Surpresa. Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa / Edições Afrontamento. 2022.
    Published
Translation
  1. Pinho Barros, David; Baetens, Jan. A Fotonovela: O Estereótipo como Surpresa. Porto, Portugal: Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa / Edições Afrontamento. 2022.
    Published

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Solo exhibition of the comics project "Grande Urso-Gato", at the cooperative Limina. 2025.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2026 - 2026 Co-organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estética e Linguagem" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Ricardo Ono entitled "SABURO – Narrando o indizível: memória, afeto e imagem" (2026 - 2026)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2026 - 2026 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estudos Intermediais e Interartes", of a conference with Cristina Petrescu entitled "Bopeando: Jazz, tempo e liberdade em 'O Perseguidor', de Julio Cortázar" (2026 - 2026)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2026 - 2026 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estética e Linguagem" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Cristina Petrescu entitled "Da música à palavra: Avatares do jazz na literatura do século XX" (2026 - 2026)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Curation of the film season “Gendai! A modernidade no cinema asiático dos anos 60", within the frame of the project "Ásia e Europa – um futuro partilhado", with the support of the Eurasia Foundation (2025 - 2025) Casa Comum, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Curation of a commented screening of the film "The Shop Around the Corner" by Ernst Lubitsch, with a talk with Eduardo Brito (2025 - 2025) Casa dos Livros, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estética e Linguagem", of a conference with Amanda Lauschner Corrêa (2025 - 2025)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estudos Intermediais e Interartes" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Eduardo Brito entitled "Demónios da Analogia: Intersecções entre 'Bruges-la-Morte', 'Vertigo' e 'La Jetée'" (2025 - 2025)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Literatura e Imagem na Europa Francófona", of a conference with Ana Beatriz Coelho (2025 - 2025)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Cultura Japonesa Contemporânea", of a conference with Alexandre Marinho (2025 - 2025)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Referências do Cinema Mundial", of a conference with Ekaterina Smirnova (2025 - 2025)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Literatura e Estudos Interartes", of a conference with Diogo Nóbrega (2025 - 2025)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Curation of the film season "Belle Époque e Liberdade", commissioned by the Alliance Française of Porto (2024 - 2024) Casa Comum, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Curation, with Amarante Abramovici, Andreia Coutinho and João Apolinário, of the film season “Escolas" (2024 - 2026) Batalha Centro de Cinema, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Co-curation of the traveling exhibition "25 de Abril Icónico" (2024 - 2025) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, Portugal

Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Franceses, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estudos Intermediais e Interartes" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with João Pedro Cachopo entitled "O Caso Callas: Metamorfoses da Aura na Era Digital" (2024 - 2024)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Literatura e Imagem na Europa Francófona" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Letícia Simões entitled "Coquelicots d’Irak: Narração e memória na banda desenhada contemporânea" (2024 - 2024)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Literatura e Estudos Interartes" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Hugo Frey entitled "Filmmaker as Writer. Writer as Visual Artist. Meeting Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano at the Crossroads" (2024 - 2024)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Cultura Japonesa Contemporânea" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Madalena Matos entitled "Os Samurai e o Bushido no Japão Pós-Guerra: Reinterpretações e Continuidades" (2024 - 2024)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Referências do Cinema Mundial" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Pedro Florêncio entitled "O Cinema Reflexivo de Frederick Wiseman" (2024 - 2024)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Organisation of a discussion session with Hugo Frey about the film "Lacombe Lucien" by Louis Malle, within the context of the MA course "Literatura e Estudos Interartes" (2024 - 2024)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation, with the team of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a commented screening of the film "Umi Yori mo Mada Fukaku" by Hirokazu Koreeda, with Alexander Jacoby (2023 - 2023) Cinema Trindade, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Literatura e Imagem na Europa Francófona", of a conference with Cláudia Coimbra (2023 - 2023)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estudos Intermediais e Interartes", of a conference with Eloisa Morra (2023 - 2023)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Cultura Japonesa Contemporânea" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Alexander Jacoby entitled "The New Family in 21st Century Japanese Cinema" (2023 - 2023)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Cultura Francesa Contemporânea", of a conference with Flavien Falantin (2023 - 2023)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Literatura e Estudos Interartes" of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Jan Baetens entitled "Cinema on Paper: Novelisations and Film Photonovels" (2023 - 2023)
Conference
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Estética e Linguagem", of a conference with Lukas Etter (2022 - 2022)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Literatura Portuguesa e Hibridismo dos Géneros", of a conference with Pedro Vieira de Moura (2022 - 2022)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Coordination, with Rosa Maria Martelo and Joana Matos Frias, of the panel “Words, Images and Scissors: cutting, framing, collages, and poetic invention”, within the context of the conference "In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones", organised by the International Society for Intermedial Studies (2022 - 2022)
Conference
The University of Dublin Trinity College, Ireland
2022 - 2022 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Literatura e Estudos Interartes" and the open seminars of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of a conference with Xavier Giudicelli entitled "Illustrating Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Contingent Ephemerality of Beauty" (2022 - 2022)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Cultura Japonesa Contemporânea", of a conference with Giulia Baquè (2022 - 2022)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Técnicas de Comunicação Oral e Escrita II", of a conference with Camila Figueiredo (2022 - 2022)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Literatura e Estudos Interartes", of a conference with Sophie Aymes (2021 - 2021)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Organisation, with the team of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of the open seminar "Illustrating Proust, an impossible assignment?", conducted by Jan Baetens (2021 - 2021)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Narrativas Visuais e Intermedialidade", of conferences with Yannick Bellenger-Morvan and Greice Schneider (2020 - 2021)
Conference
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2014 - 2021 Organisation, within the context of the module "O Japão do Pós-Guerra Através do Cinema", part of the BA course "Cultura Japonesa Contemporânea", of conferences with Miguel Patrício, Joana Caetano, Alexandra Curvelo, Christina Irrgang, Luís Mendonça, Kin Wai Chu, Dulce Soares and Ethan de Seife (2014 - 2021)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Introdução à Banda Desenhada", of a conference with Júlia Garraio (2020 - 2020)
Conference
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Organisation, within the context of the MA course "Teoria da Animação", of conferences with Stéphane Collignon and Alix Cazalet-Boudigues (2019 - 2020)
Conference
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Organisation, with the team of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, of the open seminar "Tintin e a Capa-Arte: Análises gráficas de capas de álbuns de banda desenhada", conducted by Bruno Porto (2019 - 2019)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Organisation, within the context of the post-graduation course "Banda Desenhada", of a conference with Benoît Crucifix (2019 - 2019)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Coordination, with Miguel Patrício, of the panel “Chromophobia and Chromophilia in Japanese Cinema”, within the context of the International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, organised by the CHAM – Centro de Humanidades (2017 - 2017)
Conference
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Curation of a session on the film "Burning an Illusion" by Menelik Shabazz at the intensive annual school programme of SOS Racismo (2015 - 2015) SOS Racismo, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Curation, with Joana Rodrigues, of the exhibition "A Infância no Cinema", organised by the Escola Carlitos (2015 - 2015) Cinemateca Brasileira, Brazil
2015 - 2015 Co-curation of Utopia – 6th UK Portuguese Film Festival (2015 - 2015) Filmville, United Kingdom
2014 - 2014 Organisation, with Ana Paula Coutinho, Joana Rodrigues and Mathilde Ferreira Neves, of the project "Abril Duras no Porto", a cultural project consecrated to the celebration of the centenary of Marguerite Duras (2014 - 2014) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Curation, with Joana Rodrigues, of the exhibition "Carlitos Faz Cem Anos", consecrated to the centenary of Charles Chaplin's character, organised by the Escola Carlitos (2014 - 2014) Cinemateca Brasileira, Brazil
2014 - 2014 Curation, with António Costa, of the film season "Dos Livros no Cinema", commissioned by the Pelouro da Cultura of the Câmara Municipal do Porto, integrated in the Feira do Livro do Porto (2014 - 2014)
Other
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Production of Utopia - 5th UK Portuguese Film Festival (2014 - 2014) Filmville, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013 Curation of the film season "Maio de 68" (2013 - 2013) Estaleiro Cultural Velha-a-Branca, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Co-production of Utopia - 4th UK Portuguese Film Festival, in the context of a three-month professional internship (2013 - 2013) Filmville, United Kingdom
2012 - 2012 Organisation, within the context of the BA course "Laboratório Digital de Ficção", of a conference with Francesco Giarrusso (2012 - 2012)
Conference
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Organisation, within the context of the course "História do Cinema Francês", of a conference with Pedro Sena Nunes (2012 - 2012)
Conference
Alliance française de Porto, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Organisation, within the context of the course "História do Documentário”, of a conference with Rita Novas Miranda (2012 - 2012)
Conference
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Organisation, within the context of the course "Cinema e Intervenção”, of a conference with André de Oliveira e Sousa (2012 - 2012)
Conference
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Organisation, within the context of the course "História do Cinema Japonês", of conferences with Steven Ridgely and Julian Ross (2012 - 2012)
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Organisation, within the context of the course "Perspectivas Comparatistas sobre a Nova Vaga Francesa", of a conference with Mariana Lopes (2012 - 2012)
Conference
Alliance française de Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Coordination of several projects and activities in the fields of communication, organisation and presentation of cinematic events, within the context of a five-month professional internship (2010 - 2011)
Other
Royal Belgian Film Archive, Belgium
2010 - 2010 Co-curation of the film season "De Pedra onde o Cinema se Desfaz", organised by Rita Novas Miranda (2010 - 2010)
Other
Livraria Trama, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Co-curation of the film the season "Década dos Zeros", organised by Luís Mendonça and Marta Fernandes (2010 - 2010)
Other
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Production of two editions of the Porto extension of the 8½ - Festa do Cinema Italiano (2009 - 2010) Fundação Serralves, Portugal

Teatro do Campo Alegre, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Co-organisation of the project Circuito – Cinema na Universidade (2008 - 2008) Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Co-curation of the film season "Cinema e Filosofia", organised by the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (2008 - 2008) Teatro do Campo Alegre, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Organisation of a film session dedicated to Japanese cinema, with the participation of Reiko Kikuchi, integrated in the History of Art Week, with the screening of two films by Yasujirô Ozu: "Tokkan Kozô" and "Ohayô" (2008 - 2008) Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2007 - 2008 Organisation and curation of the film season "Cinema Italiano na FLUP" (2007 - 2008) Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2026 - 2026 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference "As Aventuras de Tintim – Uma história franco-lusófona"
Conference
Colégio Júlio Dinis, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Participation, with Miguel Patrício, in a debate about the film "Hikô Shôjo Yôko" by Yasuo Furuhata, integrated in the season "Mestres Japoneses Desconhecidos IV", at the Cinema Trindade
Other
The Stone and the Plot, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Presentation of the film "Close" by Lukas Dhont in the Jornadas de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Participation, as a guest speaker, in the Philosophy Spring Festival, organised by the Agrupamento de Escolas Manuel Teixeira Gomes, with a lecture entitled "Cinema e Pintura: Fragmentos de um Diálogo em Curso"
Conference
Clube União Portimonense, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Presentation of two screenings of the films "Home Sweet Home" by Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz, Romain Mazevet and Stéphane Paccolat, "Land" by Masanobu Hiraoka and "The Immigrant" by Charles Chaplin, within the programme "Escolas"
Other
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Presentation of a screening of the films "Obitateli" by Artavazd Peleshian, "A Caça" by Manoel de Oliveira, "Acorda, Leviatã" by Carlos Conceição and "Pumzi" by Wanuri Kahiu, within the programme "Escolas"
Other
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Presentation of a screening of the films "Houzi Lao Yue" by Keqin Zhou, "Snowflake" by Natalia Chernysheva, "O Fim da Fila" by William Figueiredo Côgo, "Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic" by Paul Bush and "Heatwave" by Fokion Xenos, within the programme "Escolas"
Other
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Presentation of a screening of the film "The Shop Around the Corner" by Ernst Lubitsch, followed by a talk with Eduardo Brito
Other
Casa dos Livros, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Presentation of the book "Procura Nada" by Eduardo Brito
Other
Térmita, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Participation in the conference "Make, Remake, Adapt: Transcultural Perspectives in the European and Francophone Space", with the presentation of a paper entitled "Le manuscrit trouvé en bande dessinée : Lewis Trondheim à l’honneur" and the moderation of the panel "Transcultural Adaptations and Memory Work"
Conference
Panepistemio Kyprou, Cyprus
2025 - 2025 Participation in the conference "Écrits sur l’écran : écrire pour, dans et au sujet des productions cinématographiques et audiovisuelles", organised by the Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel, with a paper entitled "Words with bodies: On the written metalepses of silent animation"
Conference
Université de Caen Normandie, France
2025 - 2025 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “Banda Desenhada: Formas e Formatos”, integrated in the seminar “Do manuscrito ao livro impresso e eletrónico”
Conference
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Participation in the conference "Graphic Gastronomy: Bandes Dessinées, Comics, Mangas and Food Cultures through History", organised at the Villa Rabelais, with a paper entitled "Kitchen Arcadia: Food-Preparation Idylls in Post-World War II Comics"
Conference
Université de Tours, France
2024 - 2024 Presentation of the film season "Belle Époque e Liberdade", organised by the Alliance Française do Porto
Other
Casa Comum, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Participation, with Jorge Gato, Jorge Vicente Valentim and Abdellah Taïa, in a commented screening of the film "L'Armée du salut" by Abdellah Taïa, organised by the Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Franceses and the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Participation, as president of the panel, in the conference "Ler e Ser: Desafios do Século XXI"
Conference
Ajudaris, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Presentation and participation, with Pedro Florêncio, in a debate about the film "Un couple" by Frederick Wiseman
Other
Cinema Trindade, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Participation, with Elisabete Marques and Isabel Gomes, in a debate about the film "Caravaggio" by Derek Jarman, within the season "Modos de Rever: História(s) da Arte no Cinema", at the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira
Other
Fundação Serralves, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Presentation of the film "Mononoke-hime" by Hayao Miyazaki in the season "Funny Animals no Ecrã: Nature films, Zoo/antropomorfismo e Fim do Mundo", organised by the Cineclube Lastro
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Participation in the international conference "Real Colors and Cultures", organised by the Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes at the Université de Haute-Alsace, at the Musée de l’impression sur Etoffes and at the Goetheanum, with a paper entitled "Postwar Colours and the Widescreen Image" and the moderation of the panel "Monochrome Colour"
Conference
Université de Haute-Alsace, France
2024 - 2024 Moderation of a panel of the 14th conference of the Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference "Où en êtes-vous, ligne claire ?" at the cultural centre La Nau
Conference
Universitat de València, Spain
2024 - 2024 Participation in the conference "Literature in Eras of Conflict: Ideology and Ethics", organised by the Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association, with the presentation of a paper entitled "Blake and Mortimer for the 21st Century: Ethics and Aesthetics"
Conference
Lietuviu literaturos ir tautosakos institutas, Lithuania
2024 - 2024 Participation in the conference "Avrils au Portugal et ailleurs. Le 25 avril 1974 : représentations, réverbérations et mythologies", organised by the Association Portugaise d’Études Françaises and the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with the presentation of a paper entitled "La révolution des Œillets par la bande dessinée française"
Conference
Casa do Brasil, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “La ligne claire : un style passe-partout ?”, integrated in the seminar “Le style en (icono)texte : littérature et bande dessinée”
Conference
Sorbonne Université, France
2023 - 2023 Presentation and participation, with Francisca Camelo, in a debate about the film "Vous ne désirez que moi" by Claire Simon
Other
Cinema Trindade, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Participation, with Miguel Patrício, in a debate about the film "Tsuki wa Noborinu" by Kinuyo Tanaka, integrated in the season "Integral Kinuyo Tanaka", at the Teatro do Campo Alegre
Other
The Stone and the Plot, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Presentation, with Ana Paula Coutinho, of the film "Vous ne désirez que moi" by Claire Simon
Other
Cinema Trindade, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Presentation and discussion of the film "Onna Bakari no Yoru" by Kinuyo Tanaka, integrated in the season "Integral Kinuyo Tanaka", at the Teatro do Campo Alegre
Other
The Stone and the Plot, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Presentation and participation, with Alexander Jacoby, in a debate about the film "Umi Yori mo Mada Fukaku" by Hirokazu Koreeda, organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Other
Cinema Trindade, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Participation, with Miguel Patrício, in a debate about the film "Keirin Shônin Gyôjyôki" by Shôgorô Nishimura, integrated in the season "Mestres Japoneses Desconhecidos III", at the Cinemas NOS NorteShopping
Other
The Stone and the Plot, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Moderation of a panel of the conference "Romance Coral: Ficção de vozes múltiplas", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa and the Association Portugaise d’Études Françaises
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Participation in the conference "Sang sensible : couleur, fluide et fonction vitale dans la littérature et les arts (XIXe - XXIe s.)", organised by the Centre Pluridisciplinaire Textes et Cultures, with the presentation of a paper entitled "Alix en rouge : Portrait d’un sang caché"
Conference
Université de Bourgogne, France
2023 - 2023 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference "Polar Delirium: Intertextuality and cognition in the fictional Arctic"
Conference
Université de Bourgogne, France
2023 - 2023 Participation in the conference "Better Living Through Comics", organised by the International Bande Dessinée Society, with the presentation of a paper entitled "Hotel Comics: Pleasures and politics of the bande dessinée resort" and the moderation of the panel "Comics, the Body, Health, and Wellbeing"
Conference
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, United Kingdom
2023 - 2023 Moderation of the open seminar "The New Family in 21st Century Japanese Cinema", conducted by Alexander Jacoby
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Moderation of a panel of the conference "Jornada de Tradução II: A Leste do Oriente", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Participation as guest speaker in the conference "Images et imaginaires d'Asie", organised by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon and the festival Fenêtres sur courts, with a paper entitled "Le cinéma japonais au-delà de l’archipel"
Conference
Université de Bourgogne, France
2022 - 2022 Presentation, with Pedro Eiras, of the translated books "A Fotonovela: O Estereótipo como Surpresa" by Jan Baetens and "As Primeiras Armas do Simbolismo" by Jean Moréas, within the activities of the Feira do Livro do Porto
Other
Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Participation in the round-table "Agustina no Cinema", together with António Preto and Rita Azevedo Gomes, within the context of the talk season "Agustina Leitora. Leituras de Agustina", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa at the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira
Round table
Fundação Serralves, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Participation, with Miguel Patrício, in a debate about the film "Onna no Issho" by Yasuzô Masumura, integrated in the season "Mestres Japoneses Desconhecidos II"
Other
Teatro do Campo Alegre, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Presentation, with Benoît Crucifix, of the book "The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach"
Other
Het Besloten Land, Belgium
2022 - 2022 Participation in the session of the talk season “Regards et Paroles” dedicated to the year of 1962 in the History of French New Wave cinema, organised by the group Le Cercle
Seminar
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Participation in the "Comics Translation School", organised by the COST action iCOn-MICs, with a workshop entitled "Merci, Doutor: A representação de línguas estrangeiras na criação e tradução de banda desenhada"
Conference
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Participation in the conference "Comics and the Invisible", organised by the European project "Invisible Lines", with the presentation of a paper entitled "The colour next door: Forms, functions, and politics of the chromatic hypallage in clear line comics"
Conference
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Italy
2022 - 2022 Moderation of the panel "Fatigue et création – Approches littéraires de la fatigue" of the conference "Lectures de la fatigue : Entre pathologisation, critique sociale et créations artistiques", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa and the Association Portugaise d’Études Françaises
Conference
Parque Biológico de Gaia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Participation in the conference "In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones", organised by the International Society for Intermedial Studies, with the presentation of a paper entitled “On panels and stereograms: An intermedial perspective on View-Master narratology” and the moderation of the panels "Remediating Comics, Cartoons and Graphic Novels" and "Coming to Latin America: Crossings and Connections between Media Practitioners and Moving Image Excavations"
Conference
The University of Dublin Trinity College, Ireland
2022 - 2022 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference "Printing a country: Portugal in Franco-Belgian comics" at the Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut
Conference
Universität zu Köln, Germany
2022 - 2022 Moderation of a panel of the conference "Poesia Expandida: Poéticas e Políticas da Repetição", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Moderation of the panel "Trains d’autrefois, d’autres voies" of the conference "Imaginaires du rail : Aiguillages critiques", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa and the Association Portugaise d’Études Françaises
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Participation in the Série III of the Seminários da Salvação do Mundo, organised by Pedro Eiras in the context of the activities of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with a paper entitled "Sinalética da salvação: Das pantomimas luminosas às cenouras de Lapinot"
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Presentation of the film "Falsche Bewegung" by Wim Wenders in the film season of the Feira do Livro do Porto
Other
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Participation, with Miguel Patrício, in a debate about the film "Jochukko" by Tomotaka Tasaka, integrated in the season "Mestres Japoneses Desconhecidos"
Other
Teatro do Campo Alegre, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Participation in the session of the talk season "Volta ao Mundo em Oito Literaturas" dedicated to Japan, organised by Sofia Araújo and with the intervention of in skené – Companhia de Teatro
Other
Câmara Municipal de Gondomar, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference "From climbing the pyramids to forgetting the job: Genesis and early developments of the vacation film", integrated in the seminar "Cultures populaires"
Conference
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
2021 - 2021 Participation in the conference "Le Don. Poétiques et pratiques", organised by the Association Portugaise d’Études Françaises, with the presentation of a paper entitled "La poïétique de la bande dessinée, entre dons et travaux fort gais"
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Participation in the conference "Comics and Their Audiences / Audiences and Their Comics", organised by the International Bande Dessinée Society, with the presentation of a paper entitled "The poetics of malfunction: Technology going wrong in postwar comics and cinema" and the moderation of the panel "Spanish-language Comics in Two Continents"
Conference
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, United Kingdom
2021 - 2021 Participation in the conference "Water and Sea in Word and Image", organised by the International Association of Word and Image Studies, with a paper entitled "The swimming pool graphic novel: Developments of an intimist subgenre in Franco-Belgian comics"
Conference
Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2021 - 2021 Participation in the "Vivien Leigh International Conference", with a paper entitled "Vivien Leigh’s holidays and the image of the mid-Twentieth Century artist at leisure"
Conference
Ecole nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière, France
2020 - 2020 Participation, with a workshop entitled "Vacances ! Un atelier sur textes et images de l’été", in the workshop-conference of the international network LEA! – Lire en Europe Aujourd'hui "The Pleasures of Reading: State(s) of the Art", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Moderation of a talk integrated in the 20th Festa do Cinema Francês, with directors Pierre Trividic and Patrick-Mario Bernard about the film "L'Angle mort"
Other
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Participation in the international conference "Metalepse e Transmedialidade", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with a paper entitled "Metalepses for the Masses: Humour and the Interference with Structural Invisibility in Clear Line Comics and Cinema"
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Participation in the international conference "Spring Seminar: On Cinema", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa and the CITAR, with the presentation of a paper entitled "Film and Comics: Rethinking the Possibilities of Media Combination" and the moderation of the panel "Moving Images and the Contemporary"
Conference
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Moderation of the open seminar "Tintin e a Capa-Arte: Análises gráficas de capas de álbuns de banda desenhada", conducted by Bruno Porto
Seminar
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Moderation of the round-table discussion "Conversas em torno da viagem", with writer Almeida Faria and illustrator Eduardo Salavisa, integrated in the study session "Em Torno de Viagens e Outras Deslocações", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Participation in the international conference "Illustration et adaptation", organised by the centre TIL and by the research group Illustr4tio, with a paper entitled "Drawing from Ozu: An intermedial consideration on Jochen Gerner’s, Bren Luke’s and Adrian Tomine’s illustrations based on film frames"
Conference
Université de Bourgogne, France
2018 - 2018 Presentation, with Francisco Noronha and João Araújo, of the book "O Cinema Não Morreu, Crítica e Cinefilia À pala de Walsh"
Other
Flâneur, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Moderation of two masterclasses in the 19th Festa do Cinema Francês, with the directors Caroline Capelle and Ombline Ley about the film "Dans la terrible jungle", and with the director Michaël Dacheux about the film "L'Amour debout"
Other
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Participation in the “Tintin Conference”, with a paper entitled “‘Tintin est partout partout partout’: Quoting, emulating and subverting the clear line in Casterman’s magazine '(À Suivre)'”
Conference
Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
2018 - 2018 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “But now Japan and America are partners: A further look into the 1964 special issue of 'Life' magazine about Japan"
Conference
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
2017 - 2017 Moderation of the conference "Animação neo-artesanal", by Yuichi Ito from Tokyo University of the Arts and organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and the Embaixada do Japão em Portugal, with the support of Japan Foundation
Other
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Moderation of two masterclasses in the 18th Festa do Cinema Francês, with director Maryam Goormaghtigh and actor Hossein about the film "Avant la fin de l'été", and with director Ilan Klipper and actress Marilyne Canto about the film "Le Ciel étoilé au-dessus de ma tête"
Other
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Moderation of the conference "Da Terra como mãe à Terra como amante" and participation as a performer in the installation "Club Ecosex" by the Australian artist duo Pony Express, in the Fórum do Futuro, organised by the Câmara Municipal do Porto
Other
Mala Voadora, Portugal

Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “Une histoire transmédiatique de Blake et Mortimer : D’Edgar P. Jacobs au thé du Centaur Club”, integrated in the “Séminaire de l’imaginaire” and organised by the Bibliothèque des Littératures d’Aventures
Conference
Théâtre de Liège, Belgium
2017 - 2017 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “Vers une approche transmédiatique de la ligne claire : le cas du cinéma”, integrated in the interuniversity doctoral seminar “Nouvelles perspectives pour la recherche en bande dessinée”
Conference
Université de Lille, France
2017 - 2017 Participation in the conference “Comics and Memory”, with a paper entitled “Playing with the memory of the clear line in Philippe Coudray’s L’Ours Barnabé”
Conference
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2017 - 2017 Participation in the conference “Tintin au XXIe siècle”, with a paper entitled “L’aérolithe bascule ! La ligne claire à l’épreuve dans un Arctique imaginé”
Conference
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2017 - 2017 Participation in the International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, organised by the CHAM – Centro de Humanidades, with a paper entitled “Red teapot, yellow teacup: clear line colouring in Ozu’s late films”
Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “Banda Desenhada e Intermedialidade”, part of the seminar “Food for Thought”, organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Conference “Restless excitement and a wealth of paradoxes: An exegesis of a 1964 special issue of 'Life' magazine about Japan”, in the Junior Researchers in Anglo-American Studies seminars
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Presentation of the films "Naissant", "Me Myself and I", and "Trixi" by Stephen Dwoskin in the season "Voyeur?"
Other
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Presentation of the film "Jules et Jim" by François Truffaut in the film season of the Feira do Livro do Porto
Other
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Presentation of the film season “World Tour – East Asia”, organised by the CineICBAS
Other
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Presentation of the film "Higanbana" by Yasujirô Ozu, and, with Luís Mendonça, of "Omohide Poro Poro" by Isao Takahata in the film project Close-up: Observatório de Cinema, at the Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão
Other
Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Presentation and discussion of the film "Tora no O o Fumu Otokotachi" by Akira Kurosawa, part of the programme of Cinema-Fora-dos-Leões
Other
Auditório Soror Mariana, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Moderation of the panel “Networks/Circulation” of the conference “Poetics of the Algorithm”, organised by the ACME Comics Research Group
Conference
Université de Liège, Belgium
2016 - 2016 Participation in the discussion sessions of the Summer Course in Narrative Studies, in Sandbjerg Gods, with a paper entitled "Simple telling: towards a definition of clear line narration in the visual arts"
Conference
Aarhus University, Denmark
2016 - 2016 Participation in the Série IV of the Seminários do Fim do Mundo, organised by Pedro Eiras in the context of the activities of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with a paper entitled “Cogumelo pequeno, cogumelo grande: proporção e relativismo no apocalipse d’A Estrela Misteriosa”
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “A linha clara, de Hergé a Ozu”
Conference
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Participation in the conference “Intermediality and Paratextuality” , with a paper entitled “Playing with the clear line: transfer of media and style characteristics in and around Witness, Dominique Bodin’s Blake and Mortimer board game”
Conference
Université de Liège, Belgium
2016 - 2016 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “Quand un art dit un autre : les références intermédiatiques entre le cinéma et la bande dessinée”, at Quai 22 in Namur
Conference
Université de Namur, Belgium

Haute École Albert Jacquard, Belgium
2015 - 2015 Presentation of the book "Oito e Demy" by Danyel Guerra, integrated in the 35th edition of the Fantasporto film festival
Other
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Moderation of the debate "Públicos para o cinema: o que se faz em Portugal?", organised by the association Acesso Cultura
Round table
Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Delivery, as a guest speaker, of the conference “O jidaigeki no cinema clássico japonês” at the Casa-Museu Anastácio Gonçalves
Conference
Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Presentation of a screening of the film "Burning an Illusion" by Menelik Shabazz at the intensive annual school programme of SOS Racismo
Other
SOS Racismo, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Presentation of the film "Gebo et l'Ombre" by Manoel de Oliveira at the Ciné Lumière, within the context of Utopia – 6th UK Portuguese Film Festival
Other
Filmville, United Kingdom
2015 - 2015 Participation in the international conference “Ofício Múltiplo – Poetas em Outras Artes”, organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with a paper entitled “As Cidades Obscuras e suas periferias transmediais: O Caso Desombres”
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Presentation of the films "En rachâchant" by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub and "Cet amour-là" by Josée Dayan, integrated in the project "Abril Duras no Porto", organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa and with the partnership of Medeia Filmes
Other
Teatro do Campo Alegre, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Presentation of the film "Violette" de Martin Provost, integrated in the international conference "Été Français - Rencontre Nationale des Professeurs de Français", organised by the Agrupamento de Escolas de Real, the Agrupamento de Escolas Carlos Amarante and the Centro de Formação Braga Sul
Other
Theatro Circo, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Participation, with Mamadou Ba, in a debate about the film "Bamako" by Abderrahmane Sissako, integrated in the first edition of MICAR – Mostra Internacional de Cinema Anti-Racista, jointly produced by the association SOS Racismo and the Câmara Municipal do Porto
Other
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Presentation, with António Costa, of the film season "Dos Livros no Cinema", commissioned by the Pelouro da Cultura of the Câmara Municipal do Porto, integrated in the Feira do Livro do Porto
Other
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Presentation of the film season "A Cor no Cinema", organised by the cineICBAS
Other
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Participation in the international conference “Insister, dit-elle, avec Marguerite Duras”, organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with a paper entitled “Deux coordonnées pour le marin de Gibraltar: le roman de Duras, le film de Richardson”
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Participation in the international conference “Été Français – Rencontre Nationale des Professeurs de Français”, organised by the Agrupamento de Escolas de Real, the Agrupamento de Escolas Carlos Amarante and the Centro de Formação Braga Sul with a paper entitled “Violette en salle de classe”
Conference
Agrupamento de Escolas Carlos Amarante, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Presentation of the film "Je, tu, il, elle" by Chantal Akerman in a screening organised by the Cineclube FDUP
Other
Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Presentation of the film "Coup pour coup" by Marin Karmitz, within the context of the film season “Maio de 68”
Other
Estaleiro Cultural Velha-a-Branca, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Presentation of the film "Bwana Kitoko" by André Cauvin, with the title "O Cinema Colonial Belga ou a Construção de um Mito", integrated in the season "Discriminação sob o Olhar de...", at the Auditório Grupo Musical de Miragaia
Other
SOS Racismo, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Presentation of the films "Werner Herzog Filmemacher" and "Mein Liebster Fiend - Klaus Kinski" by Werner Herzog, integrated in the season "Herzog-Kinski: Queridos Inimigos", organised by the association Confederação
Other
Auditório CCOP, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Presentation of the film "On connaît la chanson" by Alain Resnais, integrated in the international conference "Juillet Français", organised by the Casa do Professor
Other
Theatro Circo, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Participation, with Sílvia Araújo, in the conference “Boas Práticas em Línguas”, organised by BabeliUM at the Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, with a paper entitled “Experiências do Laboratório Digital de Ficção”
Conference
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Participation in the international conference “Juillet Français - Deuxième Rencontre Nationale de Formation des Professeurs de Français”, organised by the Casa do Professor, the Alliance Française of Braga, Guimarães and Porto, the Institut Français du Portugal, the Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas of the University of Minho, the Agrupamento Escolas de Real and the Association Française des Professeurs de Français with two papers entitled “La Bande Dessinée: une Motivation à la Lecture” and "Préparation pour le Plan National du Cinéma”
Conference
Casa do Professor, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Participation in a discussion about Fernando Lopes, with André de Oliveira e Sousa, Fernando Mateus, and Armando Caramelo, integrated in the VII Jornadas de Cinema e Audiovisual de Fafe
Round table
Cineclube de Fafe, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Presentation of the film "Pierrot le Fou" by Jean-Luc Godard in a screening organised by the cineICBAS film club
Other
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Presentation of the films "Buffalo '66" by Vincent Gallo and "Amarcord" by Federico Fellini in two screenings organised by the Cineclube FDUP
Other
Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Participation in the international conference “Juillet Français — Première Rencontre Nationale de Formation des Professeurs de Français”, organised by the Casa do Professor, Alliance Française of Braga, Guimarães and Porto, the Institut Français du Portugal, the Departamento de Estudos Românicos do Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas of the University of Minho and Porto Editora, with a paper entitled “Analyse de séquences de films dans le cadre scolaire”
Conference
Casa do Professor, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Presentation of the film "Kanzo Sensei" by Shôhei Imamura, integrated in the season "De Pedra onde o Cinema se Desfaz", organised by Rita Novas Miranda
Other
Livraria Trama, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Text revision of the independent "We Are Ready for Our Close Up" exhibition of art works by students, curated by Guilherme Blanc at the old headquarters of the RDP
Exhibition
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Participation as an actor in the film "TOMFL: Test of Movement as a Foreign Language", directed by Joana Rodrigues
Other
Caméra-stylo, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Presentation of the film "Bamako" by Abderrahmane Sissako and elaboration of the programme article, integrated in the season "Década dos Zeros"
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Participation in the international conference “Rewriting of Myths”, organised by the Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto, with a paper entitled “Édipos, Sísifos e Onis: A Reescrita de Mitos em Matsumoto, Teshigahara and Shindô”
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Screenplay, direction and co-editing of the short film "Esercizio di Lingua", produced by Joana Rodrigues, premiered at the Cinemateca Portuguesa and the Fundação de Serralves
Other
Fundação Serralves, Portugal

Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Participation in the international conference “Artes da Perversão”, organised by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, with a paper entitled “Pardon me, but my teeth are in your neck: Os caminhos da perversão no cinema de Roman Polanski”
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Participation in the international and interdisciplinary conference “Back to the Futurists”, jointly organised by the French Department, Queen Mary University of London, the French Department, Royal Holloway University of London, the Departments of English and Modern Languages, Swansea University and in collaboration with The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, with a paper entitled “Italian Futurism: Cinema without Film”
Conference
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
2009 - 2009 Participation in the international conference “Tradition and Innovation”, organised by the Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto, with a paper entitled “Da Sombra à Luz: Tradição e Inovação no Cinema da Nova Vaga Japonesa”
Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Participation, with Joana Matos Frias, in a debate about the film "Banshun" by Yasujirô Ozu, integrated in the season "Cinema e Filosofia", this year dedicated to the theme of "Love"
Other
Teatro do Campo Alegre, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Presentation, with Reiko Kikuchi, of the films "Tokkan Kozô" and "Ohayô" by Yasujirô Ozu, within the context of the History of Art Week
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Presentation, with Giuseppe Mea, of the film season "Cinema Italiano na FLUP"
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Presentation of the film "Roma, città aperta" by Roberto Rossellini and elaboration of the programme article in a screening organised by the Cineclube FDUP
Other
Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, Portugal
2006 - 2006 Presentation of the film "Les Diaboliques" by Henri-Georges Clouzot in a screening organised by the Cineclube FDUP
Other
Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, Portugal
2006 - 2006 Participation, as a reader of excerpts of works by the Belgian novelist Eugène Savitzkaya, in the project “Résidence d’Auteur”
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2005 - 2005 Participation, as an actor, in two plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, integrated in the celebrations of the centenary of the writer: "Huis-clos" and "Les Mains sales", staged by Lígia Roque
Other
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal
2005 - 2005 Participation, integrated in a team of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto led by John Ross, in the European University Debating Championships
Other
UCC Philosophical Society, Ireland
2003 - 2003 Participation in the project "Animatona", led by Abi Feijó and Jorge Ribeiro, with the co-direction of the short film "O Presente", nominated for the section "Jovem Cineasta Português" of the 2004 edition of the Cinanima Festival
Other
Casa da Animação, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025 - Current Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel Member
2025 - Current Color Studies Working Group Member
2022 - Current European Narratology Network Member
2021 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Franceses Member
2021 - Current International Society for Intermedial Studies Member
2021 - Current COST action iCOn-MICs Member
2017 - Current Centre de Recherche pour l'Étude Narratologique en Bande Dessinée Member
2016 - Current ACME Comics Research Group Member
2016 - Current International Association of Word and Image Studies Member
2016 - Current European Association for Japanese Studies Member
2013 - Current Association Les Amis de Georges Méliès - Cinémathèque Méliès Member
2012 - Current Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua Educator
2009 - Current Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa Member
2019 - 2024 Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes Member
2016 - 2022 La Brèche, Recherche en Bande Dessinée Member
2016 - 2020 MDRN Member
2018 - 2018 Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Member
2014 - 2018 Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento Member
2014 - 2018 Association Française de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Pool of experts
Member
European Commission, Belgium
2023 - Current Scientific committee of the Licenciatura em Literatura e Estudos Interartes
Member
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020 - Current Scientific committee of the journal "Imaginaires"
Member
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
2025 - 2025 Pool of experts A3ES, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Monitoring committee of the Licenciatura em Literatura e Estudos Interartes
Member
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Steering committee
Member
La Brèche, Recherche en Bande Dessinée, France

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024 - 2024 Assessment, as an external expert, of one project proposal submitted to the annual tender of the COST programme
Evaluator
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium European Union
2024 - 2024 Assessment, as an external expert, of thirteen project proposals submitted to the annual tender of the Creative Europe programme
Evaluator
European Commission, Belgium European Union

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 Participation in the jury of the literary contest "Histórias da Ajudaris" Ajudaris, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2005 Second prize, with the text "Aqueles Dias de Federica Longobardi" (short story category), in the literary competition promoted by the Students' Union of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto
1999 Prize awarded by the Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, for the comics "A Arca de Noé", consecrated to the theme of the Portuguese discoveries
1997 Prize awarded by the Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, for the comics "O Antónia", consecrated to the theme of the Portuguese discoveries

Other distinction

2025 Erasmus+ grant awarded by the University of Porto for a teaching exchange at the University of Cyprus
2023 Erasmus+ grant awarded by the University of Porto for a teaching exchange at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
2015 38-month PhD grant awarded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to develop a thesis with a cotutelle agreement between the University of Porto and the KU Leuven, extended in 2018 for another ten months
2013 Leonardo da Vinci grant awarded by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, for an internship in a foreign cultural institution (Filmville, London)
2010 Inov-Art grant awarded by the Direção-Geral das Artes, for an internship in a foreign cultural institution (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, Brussels)
2009 Merit scholarship awarded by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Lisboa, for an Italian language course at the Accademia Leonardo in Salerno
2008 Merit grant awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto for academic achievement in the first three years of the BA
2008 Grant awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, for the participation in the Summer School of the Institut du Nouveau Monde in Quebec City
2007 Erasmus scholarship, awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, for a seven-month BA exchange programme at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, in the field of film studies