Currently
Professor at ESAD—CR.
Research Fellow at FCSH—NOVA Universidade de Lisboa (IELT).
Co-Principal Investigator at FCT Research Project "Spectrality: Literature and the Arts (Portugal and Brazil)"
Editor of Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies.
Main areas of interest: Cinema; Diaries; Japanese Photography; Photobooks; Portuguese Photography; Spectrality.
Books (author)
[Images on the Run: The Ghosts of François Truffaut] Documenta, 2015.
[Superimpositions: Film Readings] Documenta, 2019.
2021 Award of the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] for Best Monograph.
[Specters of Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira and João Pedro Rodrigues] Documenta, 2020.
Books (edited)
[Film Writing: Essays], with Clara Rowland, Documenta, 2015.
[Death and Spectrality in Art and Literature], with Fernando Guerreiro, Húmus, 2019.
[Imitations of Life: American Classical Film], with C. Rowland & F. Guerreiro, E-Primatur, 2020.
2022 Award of the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] for Best Collection of Writings.
Journal issues (edited)
Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, N. 2, "Materialities of the Photobook" (with David Campany). 2022.
2i | Journal of Identity and Intermediality Studies, Vol. 5, No. 6, "Prosopopoeia Today: Poetics and Politics" (with Amândio Reis). 2022.
Journal of Communication and Languages, No. 53, "Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly" (with Margarida Medeiros). 2020.
A (very brief) selection of texts
More on Academia.edu
[interview] "A questionnaire on the photobook (publishers)" (with David Campany), Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, No. 2. 2022.
[interview] "A questionnaire on the photobook (artists)" (with David Campany), Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, No. 2. 2022.
[book review] "Kikuji Kawada. Vortex. Akaaka, 2022", Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, No. 2. 2022.
[interview] "A Conversation with André Príncipe & José Pedro Cortes (Pierre von Kleist)", Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, No. 2. 2022.
[book review] "Sakiko Nomura and Ango Sakaguchi. Ango. Tokyo: Bookshop M, 2017", Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, Vol. I, No. I. 2022.
[article] “Alone in the marriage portrait: Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela”, Forma de Vida, No. 23. 2022.
[book chapter] “Love is Stronger than Death: João Pedro Rodrigues’s Two Drifters and the Ghost(s) of Manoel de Oliveira”, in Filipa Rosário and José Duarte (eds.), The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata. Edinburgh University Pres. 2022.
[article] “Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly: A Short Introduction” (with Margarida Medeiros), Journal of Communication and Languages, Issue 53. 2020.
[article] “The Invisible Woman: Rebecca, after an Audiovisual Essay by R.V. Lisboa”, Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, Issue 5. 2020.
[book chapter] "Falar na língua dos mortos: Wenceslau de Moraes e Paulo Rocha", in Fernando Guerreiro e José Bértolo, Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura. 2019.
[book chapter] “Conjuring the Dead in Henry James’s The Altar of the Dead and François Truffaut’s La chambre verte”, in Donata Meneghelli and Massimo Fusillo (eds.), A Story Is Always Born Twice: Issues on Adaptation. Duetredue Edizioni. 2017.
[interview] "More real than reality: an interview with James Benning" (with Susana Nascimento Duarte), Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, Vol. 4, No. 1. 2017.
[interview] "'Another kind of primitive dream': Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" (with Susana Nascimento Duarte), Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, No. 8. 2016.
Videos
Lecture “'Kingdom of Shadows'”: Film as Spectral Medium". Spring Seminar 2021: Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts (Universidade Católica do Porto, Escola das Artes, 7 May 2021).