About me
My name is Bruno, and I am a researcher based in Portugal with a Ph.D in Materialities of Literature from the University of Coimbra. I am also a poet and performer committed to practice-based research as an alternative model for producing knowledge.
My core research sits at the intersection of literary studies, media studies and cultural studies, with a particular focus on intermediality and comparative media. I explore experimental poetry, copy art, and electronic literature, aiming to develop a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of how literary art forms engage with the material and technological dimensions of media. I am especially interested in what these engagements reveal about the social dimensions of writing and reading across different media and historical periods. Since 2017, I have been a co-editor of the Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature (U. Fernando Pessoa), and I am also a member of MATLIT LAB – Humanities Laboratory (U. Coimbra).
A second line of my research and teaching focuses on the role of digital methodologies in the production and dissemination of knowledge. I have participated in several digital humanities projects and maintain a long-standing interest in computational methods and theories for literary research. From March 2023 to February 2025, I served as Principal Investigator of the research project To See the Tree and the Forest. Reading the Poetry of António Ramos Rosa from a Distance (10.54499/2022.08122.PTDC), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and hosted by the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Porto.
As side projects, my work as a translator includes poems and essays by Nicanor Parra, Raúl Zurita and Ulises Carrión.
Why hackingthetext.net?
This personal website brings together otherwise scattered information about my research and artistic work, which I see as inseparable. I’m a big fan of lists: hackingthetext.net offers lists of research articles published in journals and books, as well as papers presented at conferences. You’ll also find links to the poetic works I’ve been creating.
As I see it, poets and researchers should do with language what hackers do with computational systems:
Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems – about the world – from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things.
Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.
New York: Delta, 1985, p. 24.
I don’t know if I can do things more interestingly than those who came before me or those working alongside me now. What matters to me is the belief that scientific and artistic practice unfolds as a continuous, diachronic process — one that calls for synchronic collaboration in the present and a shared commitment to the future.
Get in touch
You can reach me at brunoministro [at] hackingthetext [dot] net