Mariana Calado

Mariana Calado is a PhD student in Musicology at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA University, Portugal. Her research focuses on the problematics, discourses and networks of the music criticism published in Portuguese newspapers and magazines between 1926 and 1945, a period that comprises the end of the I Republic and the establishment of the dictatorial regime. In 2011 she finished her master thesis about Francine Benoît’s music criticism and chronicles written between the 1920’s and 1950, at the same university. Mariana is a member of CESEM where she takes part in the activities of several groups and coordinates NEMI, a research team for the study of music in the press. Her main interests of research are music periodicals, music criticism, and the study of the Portuguese musical life in the first half of the 20th century. She received a PhD studentship from FCT (2015-2017), and a fellowship from CESEM for the study of music reception and music periodicals (2019-2021). She is currently collaborating with RIPM – Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, and with the project RIC – Revistas de Ideias e Cultura from CHAM / NOVA FCSH.