Margarida dos Anjos Lebreiro Amaro

Margarida Amaro is Researcher and develops her work in the fields of fashion semiotics.

She  is currently Integrated Researcher  of ICNOVA - NOVA Institute of Communication research center: http://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/en/integrated-members/ and she is Collaborator Researcher of CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design. She is also a member of the research Group of Studies of Semiotics of Culture (GESC) at the University Complutense Madrid.

She  holds a European PhD in Communication  Sciences (FCSH-UNL, 11 January 2017) with a thesis entitled  “Fashion and Communication Cultural Groundings and Aesthetic Senses. A Semiotic Approach to the Fashion: Ana Salazar”  (“Moda e Comunicação,  Fundamentos Culturais e Sentidos Estéticos. Um olhar semiótico sobre a moda. Ana Salazar").

She has eight years of teaching experience in a public university  - University of Aveiro, Portugal -  in the fields of communication, photography, aesthetics and semiotics of design.

She also has experience as curator and as  art critic.

Semiotics of fashion_ Semiotics of culture_Communication