Isabel Lousada (born 1962 in Lisbon) is a tenured assistant researcher at FCSH. She is an integrated member of the research team at CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Nova University of Lisbon (research group: Desigualdades Sociais e Ação Pública; research team: Género e Sexualidades), and a collaborator at CLEPUL-Center for Lusophone and European Literary and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (1984) and continued her studies, obtaining Master’s (1989) and Doctoral (1999) degrees in Anglo-Portuguese Studies from Nova University of Lisbon. Her research has focused on Women’s Studies, and some of her works have been published in journals, books and chapter of books mainly on female authorship. She has concentrated her research on the transition period from Monarchy to the Republic. She has taught methodology of scientific work and, as an optional subject, Feminisms: intersections of literature and sociology. She has studied female authorship from an intersectional perspective, looking at female participation in the periodical press.