Luís Miguel Cardoso holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, in the speciality of
Comparative Literature from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was Dean of the School of
Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal, between 2010 and
2018 and Deputy Director of the Master in Media and Society. He was President of ARIPESE,
Association of Reflection and Intervention in the Educational Policy of Higher Education Schools in
Portugal (2015 – 2018). Professor at the Department of Language and Communication Sciences at the
School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal, he has
been a professor of Higher Education since 1995 and is currently a researcher at the Centre for
Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon and CARE - Research Centre on Health and Social
Sciences. His main areas of teaching and research are Sciences of Language and Communication,
Pedagogical Innovation, Literacies, Education, Higher Education and Social Responsibility, and
Literature and Cinema, under which published articles and book chapters and made presentations in
Portugal and several countries, including USA, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Luxembourg, France,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Georgia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Poland,
Romenia, Canada, Vietnam, Turkey, Ukraine, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates,
Iraq, Australia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Panama, Japan, China
and India. He is a member of several international organizations and associations, as well as a member
of the editorial board of international journals in the areas of Language and Communication Sciences,
Comparative Literature, Literature and Cinema, Literacies and Education.
