Adriana Mello Guimarães

Department _Department of Language and Communication Sciences

CARE – Research Center on Health and Social Sciences

Portalegre Polytechnic University


Contact information

adrianamello@ipportalegre.pt

ORCID: 0000-0002-3547-2257

CiênciaID: 1C1F-5CDB-F5B9

Relevant links outside academia

Professional experience in journalism and audiovisual production at national media outlets, including the Portuguese public broadcaster RTP, the Portuguese Union of Misericórdias, and media companies based in Lisbon. Teaching experience at the secondary and higher education levels. Collaboration with regional and local media outlets, particularly in the Alentejo region. Participation in media literacy projects, journalism training, and public engagement initiatives. Collaboration with cultural institutions, scientific organizations, and research networks in Portugal and Brazil. Involvement in initiatives dedicated to promoting women’s contributions to journalism, literature, and public life.

Expertise

  • History of Portuguese and Lusophone journalism and the press.
  • Regional and local journalism.
  • Women, gender and media studies.
  • Women’s history in journalism and the public sphere.
  • Journalism and literature: intersections, influences and representations.
  • Lusophone cultural and literary studies
  • Media discourse analysis and social representations.

  • Political communication, rhetoric and reputation building.

  • Media literacy and journalism education.

  • Artificial Intelligence in journalism and press relations.

  • Cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • Research on Eça de Queirós, Alice Moderno, Ana Plácido and Florbela Espanca.

Relevant projects

  • Portugueses de Papel – Research project focused on Portuguese-Brazilian cultural relations and identities.
  • Academia da Leitura do Mundo: o jornalismo, a comunicação e eu – Project promoting media literacy and journalism education.
  • The Portuguese Women in Science – Initiative highlighting women’s contributions to Portuguese science and culture.
  • Senhoras do Almanaque – Research project on women’s authorship, the press and nineteenth-century print culture.
  • Research on Alice Moderno and women’s emancipation through the press.

  • Research on regional journalism in the Alentejo and media in peripheral territories.

  • Research on Artificial Intelligence, journalism and press relations.

  • Studies on media representations, gender, culture and memory in the Lusophone world.