Profile

João Luís Lisboa (born in 1959) has been a Full Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) since 1989.

He obtained a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998, with the thesis “Mots (dits) écrits. Formes et valeurs de la diffusion des idées au 18ème siècle au Portugal”.

His research areas include Intellectual History, the History of the Book and Reading, Modern European Culture, and the Philosophy of History. He has participated in various national and international projects dedicated to the study of books and reading, with a particular focus on their material and formal aspects, European information networks, and their agents, especially in the context of Early Modern Europe.

Currently, he is a researcher and Chair of the Board of CHAM – Centre for the Humanities (NOVA FCSH and the University of the Azores), where he is part of the research group “Information, Reading, and Forms of Writing”.

Between 2001 and 2002, he served as Director of the Portuguese Institute for Books and Libraries under the Ministry of Culture. From 2004 to 2014, he was Director of the Centre for the History of Culture at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.