Maria José Goulão

Investigadora no CEAACP-GEMA/UC - Centro de Estudos de Arqueologia, Artes e Património, Grupo de Estudos Multidisciplinares em Arte

Maria José Goulão is an Art Historian. She holds a PhD in Art History (Univ. of Coimbra, 2005), and has been teaching Art History at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto for 39 years, where she is an Associate Professor w/ Aggregation,  and the Director of the Department of Art and Design Sciences. She has taught at different levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate (Masters and PhD) courses. She is presently responsible for 6 course units at her Faculty, ranging from Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art to Studies in Modern and Contemporary Art, a Seminar in Art Studies and Visual Culture, and a Seminar (research tutorial) for PhD students in Fine Arts.
She also lectured and was responsible for full courses at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, and at Doctorate Programs from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) on South American Colonial Art, and “Cultural Heritages of Portuguese Influence” (III-UC, University of Coimbra).
She also lectured short courses at the Fine Arts Academy of Karlsruhe, Germany (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Erasmus exchange program), at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, France (ESAAix) (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona, Italy (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), at the University of Iceland, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Reykjavík, Iceland (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljublijana, Slovenia (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), at the Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies of the Univ. de Goa, Índia (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching: MobileUP), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of the Arts, Denmark (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE - Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem), Budapest, Hungary (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Itália  (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching), and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Itália  (Erasmus+, Staff Mobility for Teaching).
She held a Research Seminar for post-doc students at PRIVACY - Centre for Privacy Studies, of the Faculty of Theology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark.

She is a researcher at GEMA (Group of Multidisciplinary Studies in Art, CEAACP), and a member of the Portuguese Association of Art Historians, of ICOMOS, and of ICOM.
She is the author of many published articles, diverse chapters and one book, on themes of Medieval, Renaissance and South American Art. She has carried out extensive research on the circulation of artistic forms in the South Atlantic region during the colonial period (her PhD dissertation is entitled: "La puerta falsa de América": Portuguese artistic influence in the Rio de la Plata region during the colonial period).
She attended more than 60 scientific meetings in Portugal, Spain, France, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, and held lectures, conferences, free courses and summer courses in diverse institutions in Portugal, Brazil and Canada. As a fellow from many grants (from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Portuguese government, the Luso-American Foundation and the Paul Getty Foundation - Getty Grant Program, among others), she travelled extensively through the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Ecuador for her research. She was a Visiting Scholar at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), and at the University of Texas at Austin (USA).