Alexis F. Viegas is a PhD student in Comparative Studies (FLUL) with a project on crime fiction in videogames, for which he has been awarded an FCT scholarship (2024.04205.BD). He is also a member of the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp-FLUL). He holds an MA in Comparative Studies from FLUL (U. Lisboa) with a thesis in game studies, and earned his BA in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures from the same institution. He co-organized the conference “Nosferatu: 100 Anos de Terror” (2022) and has co-edited the resulting, homonymous anthology (Edições Húmus, 2023). Currently, he is (co)editor-in-chief for the scientific journal estrema. His areas of interest include videogame and intermedia studies, comparative literature, and speculative fiction.
Areas of Research
Game Studies
Literature & Videogames
Interarts and Intermedia Studies
Comparative Literature
Crime & Speculative Fiction
Selected Publications
Viegas, Alexis F. 2024. “A Concise Introduction to the Study of Analepses in Video Games: Approaches and Possibilities through The Last of Us: Part II.” Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research 24 (2). https://gamestudies.org/2402/articles/viegas.
Viegas, Alexis F. 2024. “Beyond Worlds: Music, Literature, and the Fantastical in H.P. Lovecraft and E.T.A Hoffmann.” The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 35 (1): 83-105. http://www.fantastic-arts.org/jfa/jfa-35-1/.
Viegas, Alexis F., and Patrícia Sá, eds. 2023. Nosferatu: 100 Anos de Terror, coordenated by Claudia J. Fischer. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Edições Húmus. https://doi.org/10.51427/10451/59260.
Viegas, Alexis F., and Patrícia Sá, eds. 2023. Special Issue: “Sympathy For The Grave.” P’ARTE: recolhas poéticas 1 (4). http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61399.
Viegas, Alexis F. 2022. “Analepsis and The Theatrics of Empathy in The Last of Us: Part II.” MA Thesis, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/59368.
