David Pinho Barros (Porto, 1986) is a professor, researcher and curator in the fields of literature, film and comics. He holds a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Porto, an MA in Communication Sciences from the New University of Lisbon, a PhD in Literature from the KU Leuven and a PhD in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies from the University of Porto, with a thesis elaborated under a cotutelle agreement between both institutions. Since 2008, he 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 a researcher at the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature and, since 2021, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where he is part of the Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies. Among other publications on cinema and the sequential arts, he is the author of the monograph The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach, released by Leuven University Press. He is also an expert of the European Commission, working as an evaluator of the Creative Europe and COST programmes.