Employees Category: Contributing Members

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.

Graduated in Philosophy (2020) from Universidade Federal Fluminense. During his undergraduate studies, she received a scholarship for two consecutive years for Scientific Initiation by PROCAD/Capes, a programme to promote studies and research in aesthetics and philosophy of art. In 2023, she completed the Master’s program in philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro funded by a CAPES scholarship. PhD student in philosophy at the same institution, also funded by CAPES scholarship. Member of the Art Group, autonomy and politics. Research focused on the relationship between philosophy and literature, criticism, focusing on the literature of João Guimarães Rosa.

PhD in Philosophy from PUC-Rio (2024), with a focus on Aesthetics and Contemporary Philosophy, with the thesis Friendship of forms: the poem-essay in Marília Garcia. Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Federal Fluminense University (2015) and Master’s degree in Philosophy with an emphasis on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from the same University, with the dissertation Forms of thought, forms of philosophy: A reading of The Essay as Form, by Theodor W. Adorno (2018), supervised by Prof. Dr. Pedro Sussekind and finalist of the Philosopher of Academic Excellence Award (2020). Was a Capes scholarship recipient during the doctoral program (2019-2023) and carried out a sandwich doctorate at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Capes-Print/2020-2021). Under the guidance of Professor Abel Barros Baptista, carried out a sandwich internship as a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH) developing the study plan Essay, another way of saying friend: Portuguese contribution to essay theories. She is the editor of the Alter (PUC-Rio/Brazil) and Dobra (IELT – NOVA FCSH) journals and coordinates, together with researcher Rita Basílio, the project On essay and essayism. As part of this project, since 2020, she has organized two international lecture series on the essay theme between Brazil and Portugal titled “Open Field – conversations about the Essay” and “Open Field: conversations about Essay and Art”. She is part of the FCT application teams for research projects: 1) LIBER ACT (2023.13060.PEX), proposed by Rita Basílio, and 2) Estranhar Lourenço (2023.12727.PEX), proposed by Pedro Sepúlveda. She is the author of articles published in Brazilian academic journals and book chapters, studying the relationship between thought and form in philosophy and literature, particularly regarding essay theories. She also served as a curator in the collective A MESA, which promoted exhibitions in its own gallery in Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, from 2015 to 2020. She is part of the Research Groups registered in CNPq: 1) Art, Autonomy, and Politics, coordinated by Professor Pedro Duarte and based at PUC-Rio; 2) The Eros of Critique, coordinated by Professor Patrick Pessoa and based at UFF; and 3) Poetry and Image, coordinated by Professor Patrícia Lavelle and based at PUC-Rio.

Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta, in Lisbon, where she was awarded her PhD in Portuguese Studies/Theory of Literature (on the narrative relationship between Literature and Film) and teaches Film Studies, Theory of Literature, Comparative Literature and Interart Studies. As Guest Professor she taught Portuguese Literature at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and Film Narratology at Universidade de Coimbra, and she has coordinated and taught several MA courses in São Paulo – Brasil (at USP, UNESP and PUC-SP). She coordinates the BA in Humanities and the MA in Comparative Literature at UAb. She is a senior member of CECC (Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura) at UCP, where she coordinates the Research Group in Literature, Cinema and Religion, and a collaborator of CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). She publishes mainly in the areas of Narrative Theory and Film Studies, especially on filmmakers such as Manoel de Oliveira, Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Dreyer and Robert Bresson.

Virgínia Boechat teaches Portuguese as a foreign language at AgroParisTech, Mines Paris – PSL and École Normale Supérieure, in France. She is a researcher in Literature, History of Art and Book History, with an emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She is pursuing her second PhD, in Medieval Studies, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Universidade Aberta. She carried out post-doctoral research funded by Capes at the Universidade de Aveiro, was a Temporary Professor of Literature at the Universidade Federal do Pampa, has a PhD in Literature from Universidade de São Paulo, a Master’s degree in Literature Studies from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Gonçalo Cordeiro is maître de conferences at the University Paris Nanterre, where he is a member of the CRILUS and serves as the head of the Department of Portuguese. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, completed at the University of Lisbon, focused on religious discourse in 20th-century Portuguese poetry. His research interests include the transformations of classical and biblical memory, East/West exchanges in comparative criticism, and postcolonial writing in Portuguese-language literatures.

Fernanda Luísa Gaspar Marques Pinto has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, with a minor in Portuguese and French Studies, a masters in History of the Portuguese Empire and is currently attending the non-teaching component (thesis preparation) of her PhD in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Literature Studies, with her thesis: As Traduções Francesas da História do Descobrimento e Conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, 16th century. In the professional training sphere, she has attended numerous courses in the fields of IT, book advertising and reading promotion, literature, writing and pedagogy. Throughout her professional career, she has taught and trained in Portuguese, Portuguese as a Foreign Language (A1, A2, B2) and French at various vocational schools, vocational training centers and university. She has also reviewed foreign fiction in the magazine Os Meus Livros and has done research in the Modern History and currently 16th century literatury fields the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Since 1997 she has worked for the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries – Ministry of Culture, where she has developed projects to promote books and reading in prisons and libraries. Developed research, with a research grant FCT: Diálogos Portugueses in IELT – NOVA FCSH.

Diana Maia is Lecturer of Portuguese as a Foreign Language at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) since 2017, where she is responsible for planning and teaching curricular units related to Portuguese language and culture. She holds a master’s degree in Portuguese/Chinese Intercultural Studies: Translation, Training and Business Communication from Minho University (2016). She is currently a postgraduate student of Portuguese Studies with a specialization in Portuguese Literature at Universidade Aberta. Her research interests focus on the topics of Portuguese literature, intercultural studies, and teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language.

Rita Patrício teaches at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and has been a member of its Centre for Comparative Studies since 2019. She studies and teaches modern and contemporary Portuguese literature and literature theory. She is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa: um escrutínio das pretensões heteronímicas. She has published Episódios. Da teorização estética em Fernado Pessoa (2012) and Apontamentos. Pessoa, Nemésio, Drummond (2016); co-edited with Osvaldo M. Silvestre As Conferências do Cinquentenário da Teoria da Literatura de Vítor Aguiar e Silva (2020) and with C.I. Carmo, J.M. Frias, C. Pimentel and R. Nobre Presença e Memória. Homenagem a Paula Morão (2022). Her current research focuses on the study of self-representation and the projection of the author, mainly on Portuguese literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.