Peter Hanenberg teaches German and Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon.
He is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Director of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture, CECC, and coordinator of the research line Cognition and Translatability.
He has published widely on the relationship between History and German Literature and on the literary representation of Europe from the 16th to the 21st century.
Currently he is working on the intersection between Culture Studies and Cognitive Sciences.