David Pinho Barros (Porto, 1986) is a professor, researcher, curator and comics writer. He holds a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Porto, an MA in Communication Sciences — Film and Television branch from the New University of Lisbon, with a dissertation about New Wave Japanese Cinema, a PhD in Literature from the KU Leuven and a PhD in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies — Comparative Studies from the University of Porto, with a thesis elaborated under a cotutelle agreement between both institutions and entitled « The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach ». Since 2008, he has worked as a curator and producer of exhibitions and film events in Portugal, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Brazil, and taught film and comics history and analysis at the Alliance Française, at the University of Porto, at the University of Minho, at the New University of Lisbon, and at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is currently an invited assistant professor at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal, and he has recently published his first comics, « Mylodon », made in collaboration with Australian illustrator Bren Luke.