Editors
Teresa Casal
Teresa Casal is Associate Professor in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she lectures in Irish Studies, Literary Translation and Medical Humanities. She also teaches literature modules with a medical humanities/narrative medicine orientation in healthcare training and practice. She is a researcher at ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for Lisbon Studies, where she coordinates the Project in Medical Humanities. Her research focuses on fictional and autobiographical narratives, narratives of illness, grief and dementia, and the ethics of telling and listening/reading. Among other publications, she co-edited Global Perspectives on Probing Narratives in Healthcare (2023), a antologia literária Contar (com) a Medicina (2015; 2016; 2018), and Beyond Diagnosis: Relating Person to Patient, Patient to Person (2014). She is also a literary translator.
E-mail: mcasal@campus.ul.pt
Ciência Vitae: DC1C-B4B0-8CD9
Cecilia Beecher Martins
Cecilia Beecher Martins (PhD, 2012) is Assistant Professor in the English Studies Department of the School of Arts & Humanities, ULisboa where she teaches North American & Canadian literature and cultural studies, film studies, and narrative medicine. She also teaches film & graphic narrative modules with a medical humanities/narrative medicine orientation in healthcare training and practice. She is Co-PI of the Medical Humanities Project and the American Studies Research group at ULICES, her areas of interests. She has published articles and book chapters as well as co-edited books and a special edition of an academic journals in these areas. Antenna is her first adventure in editing a creative journal and it has been a joy and a wonderful learning experience.
Orcid: 0000-0003-3206-5856
Ciência Vitae: CA12-154C-2201
Luís Madeira
Luís Madeira, 43, has developed his career in four synchronous areas. A psychiatrist who graduated in Medicine from the University of Lisbon in 2008, he is currently coordinator of the Department of Psychiatry at CUF Descobertas Hospital and President-Elect of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health. He holds a postgraduate degree in Global Health from Imperial College London, a master's degree in Philosophy and Mental Health from the University of Central Lancashire, and a doctorate in Medicine - Philosophy of Psychiatry. He is an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Deontology and Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, where he is Coordinator of the Centre for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. He is also coordinator of the Disciplinary Area of Psychopathology and Mental Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University. He is currently serving his second term as advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. Finally, he is a psychotherapist with the Portuguese Society for Client-Centred Psychotherapy and Person-Centred Approach.
Ciência Vitae: 0113-501B-8502
Editorial Assistant
Danielle Baracho
Danielle Duque Baracho holds a Master’s degree in Modern Literatures, Arts and Cultures from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL). She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Studies, with a minor in Modern Languages (English), from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC), and a postgraduate qualification in Writing Arts from NOVA University Lisbon (FCSH-NOVA). She has actively contributed to academic and editorial contexts, with particular emphasis on providing logistical and administrative support to the Medical Humanities Project, notably ensuring the operation of the Open Course in Narrative Medicine. She also worked as an editorial assistant for Antenna: Journal of Arts, Humanities and Healthcontributing to different stages of the editorial process. Her interests include creative writing, literary studies, and interdisciplinary practices. She was awarded the 2025 Energheia Portogallo Prize for her short story “Entre a minha boca e os seus ouvidos.”
Ciência Vitae: AF18-D370-25AA