Graça P. Corrêa is a researcher in Science and Art at FCUL-Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where she conducts interdisciplinary research on Empathy, Emotion Theory, Ecophilosophy and Ethics as an integrated member of CFCUL-Center for Philosophy of Sciences. Her research interests include the history, theory and aesthetics of both Gothic-Romanticism and the international Symbolist movement in art and science. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Film Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, following a Master of Arts Degree in Directing at Emerson College Boston, and Degrees in Architecture and Dramaturgy at UL and ESTC, through grants awarded by FCT-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the Fulbright Commission and the FCG-Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She is a founding member of the international TAD-Translation, Adaptation, Dramaturgy group of the IFTR-International Federation of Theatre Research, a board member of Migrant Dramaturgies Network, and an editorial member of the international Kairos Journal of Philosophy & Science (De Gruyter/Sciendo). She has taught higher education seminars at FCUL (PDFCTAS doctoral program; and Science and Art TP, cadeira de licenciatura “Arte e Ciência, Teoria da Imagem, Representação e Produção do Real” do Minor em História e Filosofia das Ciências SAHFC), FLUL, University of Évora, ESTC-Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, IPL, and BMCC-City University of NY. Select publications include books Sensory Landscapes in Harold Pinter: A Study in Ecocriticism (2012) and Gothic Theory and Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Landscapes in Film, Theatre and Architecture (2020); articles in peer-reviewed international journals “‘White people all over’: Refugee Performance, Fictional Aesthetics and Dramaturgies of Alterity-Empathy” (CTR-Contemporary Theatre Review, 2020) and “Longing and Belonging through Migration: Otherness and Empathy in Theatre and Philosophy” (Performing Ethos Journal, 2019). Alongside her academic career, she is a theatre director, playwright, dramaturg, stage designer and translator of drama, with professional productions presented both in Portugal and the US.

Investigation of how aesthetic currents interrelate with both philosophical concepts and scientific developments. Her research projects are also directed at examining how contemporary discoveries in neuroscience may shape artistic creativity and thinking, and conversely, how artistic experimentation may intuit scientific innovation.

Investigation of how aesthetic currents interrelate with both philosophical concepts and scientific developments. Her research projects are also directed at examining how contemporary discoveries in neuroscience may shape artistic creativity and thinking, and conversely, how artistic experimentation may intuit scientific innovation.