Maria de Gouveia Durão Pacheco de Amorim has graduated in Portuguese and English Literature, with a minor in cinema. She holds a Master and PhD degrees in Theory of Literature, from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She specializes in the study of the philosophy of language, mind and action of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Anscombe and Donald Davidson and the virtue ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre. She has authored articles on the narrative concept of personal identity, the definition of style as action and the virtuous nature of love. She has worked as the music editor of Magazine.HD, an online magazine where she also wrote about indie rock and experimental electronic and ambient music. She currently teaches contemporary Anglo-American narrative, in the different media of literature, cinema and television, at the Colégio de São Tomás in Lisbon. She is also developing, as a postdoctoral researcher, a project supervised at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture of the Catholic University of Portugal. The project consists in a series of interrelated articles promoting, simultaneously, a philosophical explanation of art as a practice and the artistic work of relevant Generation X novelists, filmmakers and musicians.