Biography

Ana Oliveira (AO) is a sociologist and researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of NOVA University Lisbon (CICS.NOVA / NOVA FCSH). AO holds a PhD in Feminist Studies (2018) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, with a thesis in the field of feminist legal theory. Focusing on the normative expression of harassment in the sources of criminal and labour law, this thesis was published by the Contemporary History Press under the title "Harassment: socio-legal approaches to sexuality". Between 2009 and 2026, AO conducted research at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), having participated in several national and international projects on topics such as domestic violence, homicides in intimate relationships, sexual discrimination, LGBT policies, feminisation of the legal professions, trafficking in human beings and asylum and international protection policies. AO currently coordinates the project LAWCUS - Harassment in Legal and Extra-Legal Landscapes, developed in partnership between CES, CICS.NOVA and NOVA FCSH, and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Anchored in the social and cultural studies of law, AO's research interests converge on the legal status of sex, taking harassment, pornography or 'sex robots', digital platforms and interfaces as an observatory of epistemological problems and speculative scenarios that interpellate the way of conceiving, imagining and regulating fantasy, the subject and social relations.