Isabel Soares is Full Professor (Communication Sciences) at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP), Universidade de Lisboa. She is a founding member of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, was its President, 2016-2018, and launched the first University course on literary journalism in Portugal at her University. Her published work explores the multiple outlets, written and audiovisual, of contemporary Portuguese language work in this quickly evolving journalistic genre.
Alice Donat Trindade is Associate Professor at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa. Her PhD research kickstarted literary journalism studies in Portugal and led her to being the first woman President of IALJS. Her research started with American literary journalism but then led her to a special interest on the diverse forms of crónica written in Portuguese on 3 different Continents. She is a a senior research fellow at the Center for Public Administration and Policies (CAPP).