Maria do Rosário Leitão Lupi Bello is Associate Professor at Universidade Aberta (UAb)/Open University (Lisbon) and a senior member of the CECC-UCP (Research Centre for Communication and Culture – Portuguese Catholic University), where she is the coordinator of the CAR – Culture-Arts-Religion Project. A lecturer at UAb in the areas of Film Studies, Literature Theory and Inter-Arts Studies, she has also taught at other universities in Portugal (University of Coimbra and Portuguese Catholic University) and in Brazil (UNESP, PUC-SP and USP). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Portuguese Catholic University and the author of works such as Narrativa Literária e Narrativa Fílmica. O caso de ‘Amor de Perdição’/Literary Narrative and Film Narrative. The case of ‘Doomed Love’ (Lisbon, Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian, 1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2008) and Tempo e Narrativa no Cinema de Manoel de Oliveira/ Time and Narrative in Manoel de Oliveira’s Cinema (Lisbon, Tinta da China, 2022).