Mariana Calado is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, NOVA University, Portugal. Her research focuses on the problematics, discourses and networks of the music criticism published in Portuguese newspapers and magazines between 1926 and 1945, a period that comprises the end of the I Republic and the establishment of the dictatorial regime. In 2011 she finished her master thesis about Francine Benoît's music criticism and chronicles written between the 1920's and 1950, at the same university. Mariana Calado has published about Francine Benoît's writings, music reception and music criticism, the history of the musical press and about discourses on music in the periodical press. She has presented papers on these topics in several conferences. Mariana Calado is a member of CESEM (Center for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics), where she takes part in various activities of the Critical Theory and Communication Research Group and the Opera Studies Research Cluster and coordinates the Research Cluster on Music in the Press (NEMI - Núcleo de Estudos em Música na Imprensa). She received a PhD Studentship from FCT (Science and Technology Foundation), a fellowship for the digitation and organization of the composer José Mário Branco's archive, and a fellowship from CESEM for the study of music reception and music periodicals published in Portugal in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Between 2016 and 2018 she wrote regularly reviews and articles for the "Glosas" magazine. She collaborates with RIPM-Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale database in the preparation and indexation of Portuguese music periodicals, and with the project RIC-Revistas de Ideias e Culturas (CHAM/NOVA FCSH).