Biography

Graduate in History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Master’s degree in Museology and Heritage, and PhD candidate in Contemporary History at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Technician at the National Library of Portugal since 2022; responsible for its publications, she has coordinated the Cultural Activities and Public Relations Service since March 2024. At the Amadora City Council, she was a member of the AmadoraBD International Comic Book Festival Committee between 1998 and 2014 and coordinated the National Comic Book and Image Centre (CNBDI) between 2000 and 2015.

She researches topics related to comic books, censorship during the Estado Novo regime, publishing and the printing industry, oral history, and heritage. She is preparing a PhD thesis on children’s and youth publications that published comic strips in Portugal between 1936 and 1962.

Research fields

• Comics
• History of children’s press
• Censorship

Selected publications

• Gouveia, Cristina, & Luís Augusto Costa Dias “A desenhar e a documentar graficamente,” in Roque Gameiro na Imprensa, “a desenhar e a documentar graficamente – Catálogo da exposição, coordinated by Cristina Gouveia, 18-43. Amadora: Câmara Municipal da Amadora, 2017. [link] 🔓
• Gouveia, Cristina (Coord.). A I República na Génese da Banda Desenhada e no Olhar do Século XXI. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2010. [link]
• Gouveia, Cristina Maria de Abreu. “Da definição de um património à concepção de um museu Sobre a criação de um Museu de Banda Desenhada na Cidade da Amadora.” Master’s in Museology and Heritage dissertation presented to the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2009. [link] 🔓

Main projects

• “De O Mosquito ao Cavaleiro Andante. Histórias aos quadradinhos na imprensa infantil e juvenil, 1936-1962” [From O Mosquito to Cavaleiro Andante. Comic strip stories in children’s and youth press, 1936-1962] — PhD project supervised by Paulo Jorge Fernandes (IHC — NOVA FCSH).