- Degree in Audiovisuals Comunication and Multimedia
- Degree in Performing Arts
- Grau en Comunicació Audiovisual i Multimèdia
- Degree in Fashion
- Aesthetics and Art Theory (Degree in Audiovisuals Comunication and Multimedia)
- Circus Arts (Degree in Performing Arts)
- Aesthetics and Art Theory (Grau en Comunicació Audiovisual i Multimèdia)
- Estètica i teoria de l'art (Degree in Fashion)
- Dramatic Literature II (Degree in Performing Arts)
- Dramatic Literature II: From the Modern Age to the present day (Degree in Performing Arts)
- Internship (Degree in Performing Arts)
- Seminars (Degree in Performing Arts)
Clown, art educator and researcher in Performing Arts, Performance, Arts and Education, Gender, Cultural Rights and Policies, Arts Based Research. Degree in Law from the University of Fortaleza, Brazil (2001). Degree in Performing Arts from the Federal Center for Technological Education of Ceará, Brazil (2006). Master in Visual Arts and Education from the University of Barcelona (2011).
Doctorate in Arts and Education from the University of Barcelona (2016). In 2006 he received an award and honor of merit for the research "El Riure del Pallaso: Sentit Polític en la Poètica de Bertolt Brecht". In 2011 he won the Carequinha FUNARTE / Petrobras Award for Circus Support in Brazil, to carry out the field work of the doctoral research "Pallasses: Històries, Cossos i Formes de Representar la Comicitat des d'una Perspectiva de Gènere", which proposes plural genealogies of clowns, from a feminist-queer-crip intersectional approach. In 2014 he received again the Carequinha FUNARTE / Petrobras Support Award to Brazil, this time to renew the Xereca sketch.
In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, continuing her research on clowns, to research centers on gender, race and disability (CIGS, CERS and CDS). She is a professor in the Performing Arts Degree at the ERAM University (Center attached to the University of Girona), where she also participates in the ERAMSCI research group.
2023. Beca ERASMUS Staff Mobility for Training - ERASMUS+ KA131STT programme
2023 - Centro de Estudos Teatrais / Faculdade de Letras / Universidade de Lisboa (CET-FLUL), Portugal.
2022. Beca de recerca artística Nexes Ciutat – La Escocesa / Idensitat, amb el projecte "CASA – Teixint vincles, memòries i afectes des del cine comunitari" - Barcelona.
2022. Beca de recerca - Festival Internacional de Mulheres Palhaças & Universidade de Lisboa (Centro de Estudios Teatrales – FLULL y CET) - Portugal
2006. Premi i honor al mèrit per la investigació "El Riure del Pallasso: Sentit Polític en la Poètica de Bertolt Brecht".
2011. Premi Carequinha FUNARTE / Petrobras de Suport al Circ al Brasil, per realitzar el treball de camp de la recerca doctoral "Pallasses: Històries, Cossos i Formes de Representar la Comicitat des d'una Perspectiva de Gènere", la qual proposa genealogies plurals de pallasses, a partir d'un abordatge feminista-queer-crip interseccional.
2014. Premi Carequinha FUNARTE / Petrobras de Suport al Circ al Brasil, aquest cop per renovar el sketch Xereca.
Lines of artistic research: Mime, clown, physical theater and performance. Theoretical research lines: Arts and Education, Art Therapy, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Cultural Rights and Policies, Qualitative and Post-Qualitative Research (especially Arts-Based Research and Arts-Based Educational Research).
- Caminha, M. L. 2024 Cheia de Graça! Jornada criativa-curativa enraizada na comunidade de bruxas-palhaças. Ensaio para uma coleção mágica de poemas. Festival Internacional de Mulheres Palhaças TEM GRAÇA 2022 Festival Internacional de Mulheres Palhaças TEM GRAÇA 2022
- Caminha, M. L. 2023 The wonders of wandering through magical comic territories: Towards a feminist-queer-crip laughter. Springer International Publishing Walking as critical inquiry. Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research (p.v. 7, p. 209-231) 978-3-031-29991-9
- Caminha, M. L. 2023 Cuerpos maternales y feminismos: Desdibujando fronteras. Neret Edicions – Art Social Monogràfic FAACCC. Primer festival de les arts comunitàries de Catalunya. (p.p. 68-71) ISSN: 2462-3369
- Caminha, M. L. 2021 Jennifer Miller, palhaça com barba: Clown_tactos en prol de uma palhaçaria feminista-queer. UFSM (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria) Palhaças na Universidade: Pesquisas sobre a palhaçaria feita por mulheres e as práticas feministas em âmbitos acadêmicos, artísticos e sociais. (p.235-253) 978-65-5716-039-8 Capítol Llibre
- Caminha, M. L. 2020 Hacia una risa posthumana y decolonial: Construyendo una risistencia feminista monstruosa en la payasaria Universidad de Murcia Arte y Políticas de Identidad, 22 (p.143-169) ISSN electrónico: 1989-8452. ISSN impreso: 1889-979X Article Revista
- Caminha, Melissa Lima. 2019 Old Dick Donald and Drag King Delicious Melicious: embodied inquiry through an arts-based research on woman clown transvestism. Congrés
- Caminha, Melissa Lima. 2019 La payasa monstruo: nuevas figuraciones y clown_tactos para deshacer lo humano en la comicidad Instituto de Historia del Arte Argentino y Latinoamericano, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Telon de Fondo, Revista de Teoría y Crítica Teatral (p.1-17) ISSN: 1669-6301 Article Revista
- Melissa Lima Caminha; Judit Vidiella Pagès 2019 Payasas y Xoxo Clown Show: marcos teóricos, metodológicos y epistemológicos de una investigación social y artística. Artnodes nº 23 - Arqueología de los Medios II / Humanidades Digitales II (p.96-103) ISSN: 1695-5951 Article Revista
- Lima Caminha, Melissa; Vidiella Pagès, Judit 2017 Payasas Mujeres y Mujeres Payaso: el travestismo en la payasaría. Visualidades, v. 15, 143-170 (p.143-170) ISSN: 2317-6784 Article Revista
- 2016 La Payasa Monstruo Red Inche (Coord.) Socializar Conocimientos, nº 3: América Latina en Diálogo: Oportunidades para Hoy y Mañana (p.51-72) 978-84-617-5979-8 Capítol Llibre
- 2014 Payasas Institut Universitari d’Estudis Feministes i de Gènere “Purificación Escribano”/ Universitat Jaume I de Castelló Dossiers Feministes, nº 19: Arte, Educación y Género (p.75-93) 1139-1219 Article Revista
- 2013 The Cunt Clown Show and TransClowning: Performative Impulses Inspired by Dissident Practices Congrés
- 2013 Female Clowns: A Search for a Theoretical, Artistic and Social Cartography of Women as Comic Subjects APEC - Associação de Pesquisadores e Estudantes Brasileiros na Catalunha Desafios Contemporáneos: Ciência, Cultura e Tecnologia em Tempos de Crise (p.912-927) 10-84-695-8012-4 Capítol Llibre
- 2012 The Place of Theater Ensembles in the Pedagogy of Theater in Brazil Congrés
- 2012 Female Clowns: The Place of Women in the Clown World Congrés
- Melissa Lima Caminha; Gyl Giffony Araújo Moura 2012 A Cultura do Teatro de Grupo e o Movimento Todo Teatro é Político, de Fortaleza, Ceará FUNARTE (Fundación Nacional de las Artes / Brasil) Políticas para as Artes: Prática e Reflexão (p.182-199) 978-85-7507-150-2 Capítol Llibre
- Melissa Lima Caminha; Gyl Giffony Araújo Moura 2011 Los Grupos de Teatro en Ceará: Aportaciones al Desarrollo Comunitario y Fomento del Teatro Local APEC - Associação de Pesquisadores e Estudantes Brasileiros na Catalunha XVI Seminario APEC (p.577-591) 978-84-614-9157-5 Capítol Llibre
