Vera Herold

Vera Herold. Currently finishing her PhD dissertation in Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura and the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen. Her research is focused on the memories of the German community living in Lisbon during the first half of the 20th century, and on how they relate to historiographic discourse and the European cultural memory narrative. She holds an MA in Culture Studies (UCP) with a final dissertation on the opera ‘Anna Nicole’ and its role in the operatic tradition of ‘fallen women’, a post-graduation in Arts Management by the Instituto Nacional de Administração, and a bachelor’s in music from Conservatório Nacional de Música. She is General Coordinator of the CinEd Project at Cinemateca Portuguesa, Museu do Cinema, and works freelance as a translator and as specialist guide at the Musée national d’archéologie, histoire et art. Research interests: memory and archive, migration and translation, literary translation, film education.