Maria do Rosário Leitão Lupi Bello is Associate Professor at Universidade Aberta/Open University, Lisbon, and a senior member of the CECC-UCP (Research Centre for Communication and Culture - Portuguese Catholic University), where she coordinates the CAR - Culture-Arts-Religion Project. A lecturer at Universidade Aberta in the areas of Film Studies, Literature Theory and Inter-Arts Studies, she has also taught at other universities in Portugal (University of Coimbra, 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). Her research interests are: Film Studies, Literature Theory, Comparative Literature, Interart Studies and Portuguese Literature.