Biography

Ana Oliveira (AO) is a sociologist and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES). AO holds a PhD in Feminist Studies (2018) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the same University, with a thesis in the field of feminist legal theory. Focusing on the normative expression of harassment in the sources of criminal and labour law, this thesis was published by the Contemporary History Press under the title "Harassment: socio-legal approaches to sexuality". AO has been conducting research at CES since 2009, having participated in several national and international projects on topics such as domestic violence, homicides in intimate relationships, sexual discrimination, LGBT policies, feminisation of the legal professions, trafficking in human beings and asylum and international protection policies. AO is currently coordinating the project "LAWCUS - Sexual harassment in law and extra-lawscapes", in close articulation with the project AO is developing within the scope of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC, 2022-2028), both funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Anchored in the social and cultural studies of law, AO's research interests converge on the legal status of sex and sexuality, taking harassment, pornography or 'sex robots', digital platforms and interfaces as an observatory of epistemological problems and speculative scenarios that interpellate the way of conceiving, imagining and regulating fantasy, the subject and interactions.