João Manuel de Oliveira researches on bodies and their performativity in the frame of neoliberal political economies on the broad field of Gender Studies, Critical Studies of Sexuality and Feminist Theory. João’s publications address intersectionality and hyphenation, homo/heteronormativity, de/subjugated knowledges and eccentric genealogies,anti-racist and anti-essentialist feminist theory, queer theory, trans* studies, contemporary arts and dance.

Graduate (1999), master (2003) and PhD (2009) on Social Psych- ISCTE. Post-Doc at Universidade do Minho (2010-2012), Universidade do Porto (2013-2014), ISCTE-IUL (2015-2016) research fellow at Birkbeck Institute for Social Research U  (Reino Unido- 2010-2015) and Culture and Sexuality research group of Federal U. of Bahia (2016). Between 2017-2021 Visiting associate professor at Federal U. of Bahia. Marie Curie fellow at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris- 2003. Research professor at CIS_ISCTE.