Joana Brites
Joana Brites is a Tenured Assistant Professor of Art History and Heritage at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (UC), where she currently coordinates the PhD Programme in Art History. With a Pd.D. in Art History from UC, her research and scientific publications focus on the following areas: the relationship between fascism and modernism; spheres and mechanisms of artistic control in authoritarian/totalitarian regimes; colonialism and modern architecture; Portuguese sculpture of 19th and 20th centuries.
She is a member of the Scientific Council of the University of Coimbra's Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (IIIUC), the co-leader of the international “Heritage & Culture Helix” based at Crowdhelix platform, and an Integrated Researcher of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20-UC), where she co-coordinated, between 2018 and 2020, the four interdisciplinary lines of research of the Centre. She worked as an art historian in the Office responsible for the application for World Heritage Listing of the University of Coimbra, carried out teaching mobility assignments in Spain, Italy and Romania and, in April 2019, was a visiting researcher at Brown University, USA. She is currently a member of the research team of three projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology: "PIM – Iberian Modernisms and the Primitivist Imaginary"; "WUD – The worlds of (under)development: processes and legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire in a comparative perspective (1945-1975)", and "ArchNeed – The Architecture of Need: Community Facilities in Portugal 1945-1985". Professional profile |