Filipa Cruz

Filipa Cruz is a PhD student in Musicology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa with an FCT PhD scholarship (SFRH/BD/143999/2019). She completed her master’s degree at NOVA FCSH in 2020 with the dissertation “‘To set a poem to music is to enhance its emotion’: Fernando Pessoa, between musical aesthetics, melopoetics and musical meaning”. Since 2018, she has been studying music in Portugal in the 20th century, with a special interest in the vocal music of composer Fernando Lopes-Graça. Between 2018 and 2019, she took part in the research project “Euterpe revealed: women in Portuguese musical creation and interpretation during the 20th and 21st centuries” and worked on the estate of the pianist Maria da Graça Amado da Cunha, having organised, in collaboration with Conceição Correia and Catarina Roquette, the exhibition “Maria da Graça Amado da Cunha: uma presença singular no meio musical português” (Museum of Portuguese Music – Casa Verdades de Faria, 2019-2020). Currently, her research centres on the relation between music and literature, more specifically on literary descriptions of music, processes of remediation and the representation of the musical experience in other art forms. She coordinates the Research Cluster in Thought and Music (NPM), which is part of the Group of Critical Theory and Communication (GTCC).