Sara Eckerson is Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal (FCH-UCP). She received her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies, with a specialization in Literary Theory, from the University of Lisbon (2016), an MA from the same institution (2009), and a BA from New York University (2006). Her main areas of research are in aesthetics and literary studies, specifically musical hermeneutics, the philosophy of music, and connections between music and literature; her research focuses on the music of Beethoven and Handel, as well as on the literary works of John Milton and Herman Melville. She is the author of numerous publications in this area, including on the philosophy of music (Teorema), Handel and Milton (Yale Journal of Music & Religion), Beethoven (Manchester Beethoven Studies, published by the Manchester University Press). Sara has also collaborated with the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press). In addition to her duties at the Catholic University of Portugal (FCH-UCP), Sara is also involved in cultural outreach with the Santa Casa da Misericórida de Loures [Loures Holy House of Mercy]. She has collaborated with the editorial board, and was co-creator of the current 'Boletim, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Loures; boletim trimestral', [Newsletter of the Loures Holy House of Mercy; Quarterly Newsletter] since 2019, to which she regularly contributes an article on culture.