Nuno Medeiros
nmedeiros@letras.ulisboa.ptProjecto Cidadania, Media e Produção Cultural – CITCOM
Ciência ID ED1F-F35A-1437
Nuno Medeiros holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology (1996), a Master’s degree in Historical Sociology (2007), and a PhD in Sociology, specializing in Sociology of Culture (2018), awarded by Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication at School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa, affiliated to the Department of History and the Literatures, Arts and Cultures Division. He is a researcher in Culture, Communication, Sociology and History at Universidade de Lisboa, at CEComp, Centre for Comparative Studies, as a full member of the CITCOM Research Group, dedicated especially to investigation into culture and cultural matters, in the research cluster Citizenship, Media and Cultural Production, where he coordinates the project “Written Cultures and Dimensions of Creation, Production and Consumption: from print to digital, from transmedia to the transnational”. He also collaborates with IHC – NOVA FCSH, Institute of Contemporary History, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, H&TRC – Health & Technology Research Center, at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, CHUL – Centre for History, at Universidade de Lisboa, and (E)lectram, Studies in Literature, Creative Writing, Cultural Transduction and Media Studies, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At IHC he was Director/Scientific Coordinator of Imprensa de História Contemporânea (Contemporary History University Press). One of the main areas of scientific research in which Nuno Medeiros has specialized in is historical sociology of culture, cultural practices and representations, cross-cultural circulation, and cultural heritage.
One of his main focuses has been the historical sociology of the book, publishing, bookselling, reading, print culture, and culture and communication. He has also been working on cooking, cuisine and gastronomy, health and social structure, health professions, environment, and interculturalism and human rights from a sociological and historical perspective. He has participated in, and co-authored structural R&D projects funded by the major funding institutions in Portugal, such as Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (the Portuguese public science funding agency) and the renowned Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and in Brazil, such as Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (the main Brazilian federal public science funding agency). The focuses of these research projects included popular urban culture in colonial and post-colonial spaces; reading in Portugal in the 20th century; censorship; the social nature of reading, publishing and bookselling; popular books and mass-market publishing; book circulation and print culture in the Atlantic in colonial and post-colonial times; cultural mediation of sciences in Brazil; Latin America cultural stances in UNESCO debates; distance learning; and socio-cultural perceptions on the forest and rural world. Within the specific scope of print culture, he is also one of the coordinators of a project on the printing industry sponsored by Apigraf – Portuguese Association of Printing and Paper Industries.
Areas of research
Sociology and history of cultural practices and representations
Written, print and digital culture and communication
History and sociology of book publishing
Cultural production, circulation and reception
Cultural heritage
Selected publications
Medeiros, N. (2022). Fostering Fiction, Forging Literature: Invented Authorship and Publishing Agency in the Grandes Mistérios, Grandes Aventuras Collection. Publishing Research Quarterly, 38 (1): 109-116.
Medeiros, N. (2021). Publishing Projects and the Transatlantic Book Trade between Portugal and Brazil: Circulation and Asymmetry, 1930-1960. Lingua Franca: Book History in Translation, (7): 1-27.
Medeiros, N. (2021). Pelo Império, Publicar! Defender o colonial português através da edição de livros durante o século XX na metrópole. In: Nuno Domingos (ed.), Cultura Popular e Império. As lutas pela conquista do consumo cultural em Portugal e nas suas colónias. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, pp. 75-154.
Medeiros, N. (2020). O SPN e SNI na encruzilhada do livro: António Ferro e o campo oficial da edição. In: Filomena Serra, Sofia Leal Rodrigues e Paula André (eds.), Projectos Editoriais e Propaganda. Fotografia e contra-imagens no Estado Novo. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, pp. 41-51.
Medeiros, N. (2019). Print Culture in the Making: The Portuguese Case of Romano Torres Publishing House. The International Journal of the Book, 17 (2): 29-39.
