Diana Gonçalves holds a PhD in Culture Studies from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and Justus Liebig Universität Giessen (double degree, 2013). She is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences (UCP), academic director of the Lisbon Consortium, and coordinator of the Master’s program in Culture Studies. She is a researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC) and a member of its board of directors. She is also director of the journal Diffractions, and a member of the executive committee of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA). Her main areas of research are culture studies, visual culture, American culture and literature, conflict and violence, environment and disasters. She is the author of 9/11: Culture, Catastrophe, and the Critique of Singularity (2016).