Joana Matos Frias is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, a member of the Board of the Centre for Comparative Studies, a collaborating member of the Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa and of the project Estranhar Pessoa. Author of Cinephilia and Cinephobia in Portuguese Modernism (2014) and The images’ murmur (2018), among other books of essays, she has published articles on works of modern and contemporary Portuguese literature in several magazines and collective volumes.