João Paulo Lopes de Meira Hergesel

Professor at the School of Language and Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (ELC/PUC-Campinas) and researcher in the Human and Integral Development Program (PDHI/PUC-Campinas). PhD in Communication from Anhembi Morumbi University (2019). Master's degree in Communication and Culture from Sorocaba University (2014). Bachelor's degree in Language: Portuguese/English from Sorocaba University (2012). Completed a post-doctorate in Communication and Culture (2019-2020). From 2020 to 2025, served as a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Languages, Media, and Art (PPG-LIMIAR/PUC-Campinas). Leader of the study group on interactive digital books, active in the Manacás Program (PUC-Campinas) since March 2024. Member of the research groups SOLARIS - Solidarity, Responsible Actions, and Social Innovation (PUC-Campinas/CNPq). Partner of the research groups Innovations and Breakthroughs in Television Fiction (UAM/CNPq) and Media Narratives (Uniso/CNPq). Participant in the Brazilian Network of Researchers in Television Fiction (Obitel Brasil), the Ibero-American Network of Research in Audiovisual Narratives (Red Inav), and the Research Network in Communication, Childhoods, and Adolescences (Recria). Funded by FAPESP for regular research on Brazilian telenovelas (process: 2023/05698-8) and for two scientific initiation scholarship on interactive digital books (processes: 2024/05938-1 and 2024/05050-0). Participating researcher in a project approved in the Pró-Humanities/CNPq call for proposals on promoting citizenship through television fiction (process: 421215/2022-4), led by Prof. Dr. Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes (ECA/USP), and in an international project on children's and youth audiovisual narratives, led by Prof. Dr. Valerio Fuenzalida (PUC-Chile). Member of the Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication (Intercom), the Brazilian Society of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (SOCINE), and the Association of Writers and Illustrators of Children's and Youth Literature (AEILIJ). Former coordinator of the GT Interdisciplinary Studies of Television at the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Social Sciences and Humanities (CONINTER) (2021-2022). Former coordinator (2022-2023) and current vice-coordinator (2024-present) of IJ Multimedia Communication at the Scientific Initiation Journey in Communication (Intercom Júnior). Author of articles published in high and medium-impact scientific journals. Author of academic books, such as "Media, Narrative and Style" (2018), awarded by UBE-RJ, among others. Recognized with the Intercom Communication Award for Social Transformation in the Southeast Region, in the Teaching category (2024); and with an honorable mention at the I and II Brazilian Interdisciplinary Congress on Science and Technology (2020; 2021). Awarded for master's supervision at the II Postgraduate Meeting of PUC-Campinas (2020) and nominated for the Luiz Beltrão Award in the Emerging Leader category by Intercom (2019). Corresponding member of literary academies in different regions of the country. Writer of literary books and scripts for audiovisual productions, having received various awards in the field. Areas of interest: literary and audiovisual narratives; cultural production for children and adolescents; serialized television fiction; interactive digital books. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)