Author: Joana Serrado

Joana Serrado, born in 1979, is an assistant professor at the Chair of Iberian Cultural Studies at the Technical University of Chemnitz. After studying philosophy, medieval studies and religion in Coimbra, Porto and Berlin, she completed her doctorate in the history of ideas and Christianity at the University of Groningen, funded by the Portuguese Research Council. Previous research posts include the Harvard Divinity School (Fulbright Fellow), the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Oslo (Yggdrasyl doctorate fellow), the University of Oxford (Gordon Millburn Junior Research Fellow in Mysticism and religious Experience) and the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz.