Paula Gomes-Ribeiro

Musicologist. Associate Professor at NOVA FCSH. Researcher at CESEM. Conducts research in the sociology of music; music, media, communication, and technologies; digital cultures; gender and music; music journalism; opera, and musical theater, focusing particularly on the period from the late 19th century to the present.

She has been teaching since 2005 in the Department of Musicology at NOVA, with an emphasis on the domains of Sociology of Music and Contemporary Music History of the 20th and 21st centuries (especially since 1950). She has coordinated the Bachelor’s degree in Musicology since 2020. She has also collaborated with the Master’s program in Performing Arts (DCM) and the Postgraduate Studies in Women’s Studies (DS), as well as with various other Universities and Higher Education Schools.

She completed her Ph.D. in Musicology at the Université de Paris VIII in 2000, after having obtained a Master’s degree in Musicology from the same institution in 1995. She graduated in Musicology from NOVA. She pursued her musical studies at the National Conservatory and Santa Cecília Music Academy. She attended courses and seminars in choral conducting and voice, as well as in theater, opera dramaturgy, and staging in Portugal, France, and the United Kingdom. She collaborated with the FCG and the TNSC in writing musicological essays. She has written musical reviews and columns for Independente, Diário de Lisboa, Jornal de Letras, and Blitz and collaborated with various radio stations. She was responsible for the staging and dramaturgy of the National Conservatory’s Opera Workshop (2005-2007). As a stage director, she has signed several opera productions, including Martinu’s Comedy on the Bridge at the TNSC.

She coordinates SociMus (Advanced Studies Group in the Sociology of Music), which includes NEMI and CysMus. She leads the advanced studies line in gender and music (NEGEM). She was the coordinator (2011-2019), and deputy coordinator (2019-2021) of the GTCC, and vice-president of the SPIM board. She has been involved in various research projects, including DMCE (Contemporary Musical Dramaturgy in Europe), Paris. She publishes regularly in specialized and generalist journals.