João Cruz
PhD Student

Graduated in Philosophy (2015-2018) from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon. At the same institution, he obtained a Master’s degree in General Philosophy (2018-2021), with the dissertation On Baudelaire’s Laughter: A Translation Problem Between Subject and Life, and was awarded the Merit and Excellence Prize for best Master. He is currently a doctoral student in Philosophy (2022- ), specializing in Ontology and Philosophy of Nature, developing his project The Problem of Everydayness in Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, with a research scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology. In addition to IFILNOVA, he is also a collaborating member of IELT, where he is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa and develops work related to the work and the author of his doctoral project.