João Borges da Cunha (Lisbon, 1973) holds a Ph.D. in Culture Studies from the Catholic University of Portugal, and a Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. His doctoral dissertation, entitled «Representation, immersion and interiors: Cultures of Space in To the Lighthouse and Buddenbrooks», provides a comparative reading of two emblematic novels of the 20th century, regarding their spatial, architectural and cultural backdrop. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, where he has been teaching, in undergraduate and postgraduate level, such matters as Visual Culture, Theories of Space, Anthropology of Space, Geometry and Contemporary Culture. He has also beem working as the department¿s Students Manager. He has been a speaker at several international conferences on representation, culture, architecture, space, narrative and fiction, and inter-media studies, with published papers and articles on the subjects. He is a researcher at CECC-UCP and ARQ.id-ULusofona. He is also a writer of fiction, for which he has been awarded the "Branquinho da Fonseca, Expresso/ Gulbenkian Foundation Literary Prize", for his novella «Amor de Miraflores» [Lisboa: Questzal, 2004].