About

Fátima Vieira is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Porto, where she has been teaching since 1986. She has got her Doctoral degree in 1998, with a thesis on William Morris and the British Utopian Literary tradition. She is the Chairperson of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe since 2006. She is the Coordinator of the University of Porto’s branch of CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, where she is the leader of the research project “Mapping Dreams: British and North-American Utopianism”. She has also collaborated with ILC – The Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa since 2000, where she has coordinated research projects on Portuguese utopianism. Fátima Vieira is also the director of the collection Nova Biblioteca das Utopias, of the Portuguese publishing house Afrontamento, and the General director of E-topia, an electronic journal on Portuguese utopianism, as well as of Spaces of Utopia, a transdisciplinary electronic journal on Utopia written in English. She is Book Review Editor for the North-American Journal Utopian Studies and belongs to the Editorial board of several international academic journals.

Luciano Moreira was born in Porto in 1982. He received his PhD in Digital Media from the University of Porto in 2021. He studied at the University of Coimbra, where he got his degree in Psychology in 2005, and at the University of Porto, where he got his MSc in Psychology, in 2012. He is a researcher at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. He teaches at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. His areas of interest include digital humanities, science communication, science and technology studies, social representations, and scientific research methods.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3162-1021
Ciência Vitae ID: 9413-8D11-2D04

Jaqueline Pierazzo is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. She is currently working on a project concerned with the evolution of the effect of terror in Edgar Allan Poe’s works using digital tools and methodologies and on the creation of a scholarly digital edition of the author’s writings on terror. Pierazzo is the manager of the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) Digital Laboratory and has training in Digital Humanities and Literary Studies with a focus on Open Research, Digital Literary Studies, and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6276-7018
Ciência Vitae ID: 5916-DECF-C091

Tânia Cerqueira holds a Master’s degree in Anglo-American Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. She is currently a PhD candidate at the same university and her thesis main focus is the relationship of the Gothic tradition and Young Adult dystopias. She is a collaborator at CETAPS and has recently joined the Digital Lab to help manage the newly created blog, due to her ten years of experience as a digital content creator.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1396-0353
Ciência Vitae ID: CB1E-3FEB-E21F