Ana Pais is an auxiliary researcher (CEEC) at ICNOVA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, dramaturge and curator. She is the author of Discourse of Complicité. Contemporary Dramaturgies (Colibri 2004) and Affective Rhythms in the Performing Arts (Colibri 2018) as well as editor of Performance in the Public Sphere (2017, Orfeu Negro) and its online version in English available at www.performativa.pt. More recently, she published public engagement book on the affective atmospheres during the pandemic. Her current research interests are public feelings and embodied knowledge, performativity of affect, conditionings of public affect, performance as capsules of prevalent public feelings. She holds a PhD in theatre studies from the University of Lisbon, during which period she was visiting scholar at PUC-São Paulo (2010) and at the Performance Studies Department/NYU (2011-12), as well as a Master in Contemporary Dramaturgies from the same University. As an FCT postdoctoral fellow, she was a visiting scholar at McGill - Montreal (2016 and 2019) as well as UFBA, Salvador da Bahia (2016). She has been participating in national and international conferences and symposia as well as publishing articles in academic journals since 2000, namely Performance Research and Luso-Brazilian Review. Since 2018, she has been supervising master and doctoral postgraduate research. From 2005 to 2010, she was assistant professor at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon) and, in 2009 and 2015, she was guest assistant professor at the performing arts dept at the University of Évora. From November 2022 to July 2023, she was Visiting Professor at the postgraduate programme of performing arts at UFBA, Salvador da Bahia. Between 2003 and 2004, she has worked as theatre critic in the most distinguished Portuguese newspapers (Público and Expresso). She has also been collaborating as a dramaturge with Portuguese choreographers and directors, the last ones being Sara de Castro, Sónia Baptista and Mário Afonso. She curated, coordinated and produced various discursive practice events, such as: Indirecções Generativas baldio (co-curation; 2013), O Poder dos Afectos Lecture Series (Culturgest, February 2015), Dirty Ear Forum artistic residency (Lisbon, 2015), Projecto P! Performance na Esfera Pública (Lisbon, April 2017). The latter consisted of a Performance Festival, an International Conference and Publications for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Conferência Futurista, by Portuguese artist Almada Negreiros. In 2019, she organized the international conference and workshop In the Flow and was part of the scientific committee of II EASTAP conference, in Lisbon. She co-curated the artistic research project Trançar (1-2 June 2003, UFBA, Salvador da Bahia) and coordinated a research group of postgraduate theatre and dance students on affect and forms of writing (April-June).