João Pedro Cachopo studied Musicology and Philosophy in Lisbon, Paris and Berlin, earning a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2011 with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics. He teaches in the Department of Musical Sciences at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA/FCSH), where he coordinates the Critical Theory and Communication Research Group at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM). His research interests span the fields of musicology, philosophy and media studies with a focus on issues of intermediality, remediation, performance, spectatorship and criticism. He is broadly interested in the relationship between aesthetics, politics and technology; the interrelations of the arts and media; and in concepts of avant-garde, modernism, and postmodernism. He is the author of "A Torção dos Sentidos: Pandemia e Remediação Digital" (Documenta, 2020 [PT]; Elefante 2021 [BR]), which is forthcoming in English as "The Digital Pandemic: Imagination in Times of Isolation (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the co-editor, with Chris Stover and Patrick Nickleson, of "Rancière and Music" (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He is also the author of "Verdade e Enigma: Ensaio sobre o pensamento estético de Adorno" (Vendaval, 2013), which received the First Book Award from the Portuguese PEN Club in 2014, and the co-editor of "Estética e Política entre as Artes" (Edições 70, 2017) and "Pensamento Crítico Contemporâneo" (Edições 70, 2014). His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes such as "The Opera Quarterly", "New German Critique", and the "Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature". He has translated into Portuguese Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière, and Theodor W. Adorno. Between 2017 and 2019, he was a Marie SkLodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Chicago. Previously he had been a visiting scholar at the Universität Potsdam (2008), Université Paris 8 (2009), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010), University of Durham (2012) and Columbia University in the City of New York (2015). He also served as an Invited Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2016) and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2016). He presented his work in Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, the USA and the UK.