Joana Brites

Joana Brites is a Professor of Art History at the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (UC), where she coordinates the PhD programme in Art History. She is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the UC and a collaborator with the Centre for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC) and the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University Lisbon. She was a member of the UC World Heritage Candidature Office, coordinated the undergraduate programme in History of Art at FLUC, co-coordinated the transdisciplinary research axes of CEIS20, was a member of the team of several projects funded by FCT and was a visiting researcher at Brown University, USA. She is a member of the editorial team of the e-Journal of Portuguese History and the board of the Revista de História das Ideias. Her main areas of interest and research are: modernism; authoritarian and totalitarian regimes; architecture of the Estado Novo; public works in the Portuguese colonial empire (1933-1975); dissonant heritage; nineteenth-century painting and Portuguese sculpture (19th and 20th centuries).