Francisco Ferreira da Silva is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He did a Master’s degree in Culture and Communication at the same university with a dissertation entitled “New Life for the Museum of Lisbon: The Earthquake and the Proposals for Reinvention”. He is a Researcher at the Centre for English Studies at the University of Lisbon (ULICES) and participates in the research project “Travelling Memories: Votive Materialisations of the Sea and the City”. A journalist for more than 30 years, he was an executive editor at Expresso, sub-director at Diário de Notícias and Diário Económico, and director at Semanário Económico.