Ana Isabel Vasconcelos

In 2000, Ana Isabel Vasconcelos obtained a PhD in Portuguese Studies, specialised in Portuguese Literature (Universidade Aberta – Portugal), with the thesis entitled “The Portuguese Historical Drama of the Nineteenth Century or Fictions of Historical Representation in the Time of Almeida Garrett (1836-56)”, published in 2003 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Retired from Universidade Aberta since November 1, 2023, she taught curricular units in the area of Portuguese literature, Reading and reader training, History of Portuguese theatre and Research methodology. She has supervised research work in these areas and is invited by other higher education institutions to join juries for master’s and doctoral exams. As a researcher, she has dedicated herself especially to theatre studies related to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is an effective member of the “Centre for Theatre Studies” of FLUL and a collaborator of CESEM (UNL) as well as the Centre for Portuguese Literature (FLUC). In the area of Portuguese theatre studies she has published books and articles in national and international journals. She shared, with Maria João Brilhante, the scientific coordination of the collection “Biographies of the Portuguese Theatre”, a project of the Centre for Theatre Studies, sponsored by the D. Maria II and São João National Theatres, and edited by the INCM, in a total of 11 volumes. She was also the scientific coordinator, in collaboration with Luísa Cymbron, of the volume “O Velho Teatro de S. João (1798-1908): Teatro e Música no Porto do Longo século XIX” (2020). She coordinated the collection “Páginas de Teatro”, a publication of the National Museum of Theatre and Dance with the generic title of “Theatre in Lisbon in the time of…”. (3 titles edited). She was a member of the Editorial Board of Universidade Aberta and is a member of the Portuguese Association of Theatre Critics.