Employees Category: Contributing Members

Barbara Gori is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari (DiSLL) at the University of Padua (Italy), where she teaches Portuguese Literature. She is translator of poetry and prose, including the sonnets of Antero de Quental (Antero de Quental e le memorie di una coscienza – poetica e stile dei Sonetos Completos, Genova: Liberodiscrivere, 2009), the complete prose works of Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Tutta la prosa. Principio, La confessione di Lúcio, Cielo in fuoco e altri scritti, Padova: Cleup, 2013) and the poetry of Ângelo de Lima (Poesie, Perugia: Urogallo, 2015) and Manuel Alegre (Sonetos/Sonetti, Napoli: Liguori, 2024). In 2025, he published the first critical edition, with Italian translation, of the correspondence between Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa (“Al compagno di giochi del mio genio”. Corrispondenza con Fernando Pessoa, Padova: Cleup, 2025). She is responsible for essays and books on Portuguese literature, in particular on the two Generations of Portuguese Modernity, that of 70 and that of Orpheu, which represent her main areas of interest (Mário de Sá-Carneiro e a impossibilidade de renunciar. Estudo sobre a prosa, Lisbon: Colibri, 2022). She has also published on African literature in Portuguese.

 

PhD from the Social History of Culture program at PUC-Rio and master’s degree in European Studies from Masarykova Univerzita, in Brno, Czech Republic. His interests focus on subjects related to the intellectual history of the contemporary world, especially in the 20th century. He has dedicated himself to researching the essay genre and extremist speeches.

Holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Univ. de Lisboa), a master’s degree in Comparative Literature (Univ. Nova de Lisboa), and a doctorate in Literary Theory (UAb). In teaching and research, she has dedicated herself to Intercultural Communication, Literary Pedagogics, Comparative Studies, and Global Studies. She is the author of, among others, the following studies:

• The image of the city in modern poetry: Cesário Verde and Fernando Pessoa
• The teaching of literature to foreigners at the University
• Desire and seduction. The intercultural circulation of Don Juanism
• Communicating well: communicative practices and structures

Ana Cristina Carvalho was born is Lisbon in 1961 and lives near Sintra. She worked as an environmental engineer at Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests from 1986 to 2009. With a MsD and a PhD in Human Ecology, she was an invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH (Department of Sociology) from 2009 to 2018. She got a grant from Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology between 2019 and 2025, which lead her to develop the project “Representations of mainland Portugal’s Climate in XIX, XX and XI centuries Portuguese novels” at CICS.NOVA. Currently, she is also a IELT researcher, her main research interest still being Environment and Climate contents in fictional Portuguese Literature. Since 2020 she has been leading the book collection “Literature and the Environment”, which gathers authors from dozens of universities and research units in Portugal and abroad. She is an author of several scientific papers on Human Ecology and Ecocriticism, a peer reviewer for different journals, and bellongs to editorial/scientific boards of Lit&Tour – International Jorunal of Literature and Turism Research and C@striana online.

Nuno Samuel Calado de Oliveira was born and lives in Lisbon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures and master’s degrees in Portuguese Studies and Teaching English and German by NOVA FCSH. Currently, in addition to carrying out research activities, he works as a teacher in Secondary Education. He also has experience in the fields of translation and training.

Born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1976). He received a PhD and a master’s degree in Theory of Literature from the Nova University Lisbon, where he defended the theses Réplica, Ruptura, Recomeço: A Passagem de Pessoa no Espaço Literário (PhD) and O Espaço sem Volta: dos Pequenos Poemas em Prosa a Os Passos em Volta (MA), both under the supervision of Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. He graduated in Journalism from the University of Coimbra. He is the author of the books Nietzsche, Pessoa, Borges: por trás das máscaras (in)voluntárias do acaso (2004) and O espaço sem volta: do spleen de Baudelaire aos passos de Herberto Helder (2008). He wrote the entry “Rimbaud” in Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português, coordinated by Fernando Cabral Martins.

Teacher and pedagogical coordinator in basic education, she is a PhD student, at the Universidade Aberta, in Portuguese Studies – Portuguese Literature, studying the medieval imaginary in the Chronicle of the Order of Friars Minor. She holds a Master’s degree in Medieval History with the dissertation Barregãs e Bastardas Régias da Primeira Dinastia Portuguesa from NOVA FCSH and a degree in History, variant of Art History, from the School of Arts and Humanities (FLUL).

Ana Paula Ferreira has a PhD from New York University in Luso-Brazilian Studies. She is a Professor of Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. Aside from pursuing other research topics, namely the critical representation of the “real” in Lídia Jorge’s fiction, she has focused on the recuperation of women writers from the first phase of Salazar’s Estado Novo. In addition to numerous articles, she published the critical edition A Urgência de Contar: Contos de Mulheres dos Anos 40 (Caminho, 2002) and Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (Liverpool University Press, 2020). The latter traces the history of women’s agency as symbolic producers of Portuguese colonialism between the late nineteenth century and the second decade of the twentieth-first.

Completed her Ph.D.’s degree in Portuguese Studies, with a thesis on the theatre of Almada Negreiros, at the NOVA University Lisbon. She is a researcher at Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, associated with the Modernismo Online project: Virtual Archive of the Orpheu Generation (www.modernismo.pt) and the Almada Negreiros and Sarah Affonso Study and Documentation Centre. She has curated exhibitions and published works on Almada Negreiros. She has taken part in a number of colloquia and conferences with papers on the life and work of Almada Negreiros and has published several essays on these topics.

Joana Matos Frias is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, a member of the Board of the Centre for Comparative Studies, a collaborating member of the Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa and of the project Estranhar Pessoa. Author of Cinephilia and Cinephobia in Portuguese Modernism (2014) and The images’ murmur (2018), among other books of essays, she has published articles on works of modern and contemporary Portuguese literature in several magazines and collective volumes.