Luísa Fonte Gomes

Luísa Fonte Gomes

Biography

Luisa Gomes holds a Master’s degree in Musicology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH). In 2012 she presented her master’s thesis entitled «A Opereta em Portugal na viragem do século XIX para o século XX: Tição Negro de Augusto Machado (1902)». She colaborated in the research project «‘Theatre of Laughter’: the musical comedy in theatres of portuguese language (1849-1900)». Her main research interests are musical comedy repertoire in Portugal, from the second half of nineteenth century to the beggining of twentieth century, especially the comedy processes and reception studies. Since 2014 is an editorial assistant of the Portuguese Journal of Musicology new series (Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia nova série) and holds a FCT research fellowship to assist editorial projects at CESEM since 2015.