Isabel Lousada (born 1962 in Lisbon) is a tenured assistant researcher at FCSH. She is an integrated member of the research team at CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Nova University of Lisbon (research group: Desigualdades Sociais e Ação Pública; research team: Género e Sexualidades), and a collaborator at CLEPUL-Center for Lusophone and European Literary and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (1984) and continued her studies, obtaining Master's (1989) and Doctoral (1999) degrees in Anglo-Portuguese Studies from Nova University of Lisbon. In 2008, she completed the "Techpreneur-Entrepreneurship training" course offered by Nova Forum-Faculty of Economics UNL. In 2009, she finished the 1st Postgraduate Course in Public Administration and Society. Her research has focused on Women's Studies, and some of her works have been published in journals, books and chapter of books mainly on female authorship. She has concentrated her research on the transition period from Monarchy to the Republic. She has taught methodology of scientific work and, as an optional subject, Feminisms: intersections of literature and sociology. She has studied female authorship from an intersectional perspective, looking at female participation in the periodical press. She joined the network NEWW - New European approaches to European Women's Writing in History and the Cost Action IS0901 - Women Writers in History - Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture. She was a member of the Social Bodies of the National Union of Higher Education and, for some time, directed the publication SNesup Informação. She also served as Vice-President of FMEPP - Federation of Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals of Portugal-affiliated with IFBPW- International Federation of Business and Professional Women, representing the Federation on the Advisory Council of CIDM. During the United Nations Conference in Beijing, she was one of the Portuguese delegates representing CIDM's NGOs. She volunteered for the BIG Project - Libraries for Gender Equality-2009-2010 (UMAR). In 2010, she was elected a member of the Portuguese Association of Women Scientists (AMONET) and of the Society of Geography of Lisbon - Section History of Medicine; She is a member of the Spanish Association for Historical Research on Women (AIEHM), of the Portuguese P.E.N. Club and member of the Scientific Council of the Women Writers Route. She authored "Adelaide Cabete (1867-1935)," Collection Fio de Ariana, No. 6, Lisbon, CIG/PCM, 2010, and "Profile of a Pioneer: Adelaide Cabete (1867-1935)," Collection Livros República, Lisbon, Fonte da Palavra/Associação Cedro, 2011. Some of her texts are accessible in the UNL repository and can be consulted freely at: http://run.unl.pt/. She is currently the Grant Awarding Coordinator (GAC) of the network COST ACTION CA18204 - Dynamics of Placemaking and digitization in Europe's cities.