Dr. Isabel M. DE OLIVEIRA CAPELOA GIL

Isabel M. DE OLIVEIRA CAPELOA GIL is Rector of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Associate Professor of German and Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Novel Studies (University of London).

You have taught courses at numerous universities in Europe (Univ. Hamburg, as well as the Free University of Berlin, among others), in Brazil (PUC Rio) and in the United States (U. Stanford and U. Penn-Annenberg School for Communication) .

Since 2012 she has been a Visiting Professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Macau. His main research topics are Modernism, intermedia studies as well as visuality and violence.

Among other books, she is the author of Mythographies. Figures of Antigone, Cassandra and Medea in German 20th Century Drama (2007) and Visual Literacy. On the Disquiet of Images (2011).

In addition, she has been responsible for 16 collections of essays, including the recent Hazardous Future. Disaster, Representation and Risk Assessment (de Gruyter, 2015), co-authored by Christoph Wulf, and The Cultural Life of Money (de Gruyter 2015).

Isabel Gil was a Fulbright Research Fellow, recipient of a Gulbenkian Fellowship and a DAAD and Humboldt Research Fellowship.

In 2009, she was a scholarship holder at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. From 2005 to 2012 you were dean of the School of Letters and Philosophy.