MARIA MARGARIDA LOPES DE MIRANDA is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. She obtained her PhD in Neo-Latin Literature from the same university in 2002, under the supervision of Américo da Costa Ramalho. During her doctoral studies, she conducted research in Rome at the ARSI, supported by a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her research and teaching focus on Latin, Classical Culture and Neo-Latin Studies, with particular expertise in Renaissance Humanism and 16th century Jesuit humanism, as well as their Neo-Latin written sources. She is actively involved in several scientific associations and regularly participates in international scientific meetings held in Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, the USA, and Japan. Currently, she serves as the vice-coordinator of CECH-UC and co-coordinator of an inter-university project dedicated to editing and translating the Conimbricense Jesuit Aristotelian Course. Her research interests span across neo-Latin sources of Renaissance humanism, Jesuit humanism and its cultural, literary, artistic-dramatic and philosophical production, as well as the history of education in the Colleges of the Society of Jesus and its written sources. Her scholarly contributions include the first translation in Portugal of the Ratio Studiorum of the Society of Jesus (3rd edition) as well as numerous articles in scientific journals, books, and book chapters. Notably, she authored a significant study on Jesuit theatre, drawing from unpublished manuscript sources (literary and musical): Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theatre: Choruses for Tragedies in Sixteenth-Century Europe, published by Brill in 2019. This study, in 2020, received FLUC's 1st International Publications Prize.