Mafalda Charneca dos Santos is a student researcher in Art History, focusing on the visual culture of death and grief in the Iberian Peninsula (14th–20th centuries). She is currently completing a Master’s degree in Art History (FCSH – NOVA), where she developed the dissertation "The Spectacles of Mourning: Processes of Continuity and Change in Portugal from the 14th to the 20th Centuries" funded by FCT and IEM. Her research interests include medieval tomb sculpture, post-mortem photography and neomedievalism through an interdisciplinary lens of visual studies, history of emotions, and anthropology.