Employees Category: Contributing Members

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.

BA in Philosophy from the University of Southern Santa Catarina (2018); Special Master’s Student in the Postgraduate Program in Society, Culture and Borders at Unioeste – Foz do Iguaçu. Master’s degree from the Postgraduate Program in Society, Culture and Borders at Unioeste – Foz do Iguaçu. Defended his dissertation in 2021. Capes scholarship holder between 2019 and 2021, during his master’s degree. Postgraduate, Latu Sensu, in Anthropology in 2021; in History in 2021; and in Archaeology and Heritage in 2021. Psychoanalyst trained at the IBPC in 2021. PhD student in Medieval Studies, since 2021, at the Universidade Aberta and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), under the supervision of Professor Isabel Maria de Barros Dias and Professor Maria João Branco. Researching the thesis Estudo Imagológico do Medievalismo brasileiro do século XIX. Member of the research group of the CLAEC – Centro Latino-Americano de Estudos em Cultura as an Associate Researcher. Member of the Instituto Estudos Medievais (NOVA FCSH).

 

Andreia Almeida is a master student in Portuguese Studies at NOVA FCSH and has conclude her degree in the same department and institution. She also has a degree and master in Psychology at ISPA – Instituto Universitário. She is working in the project  “Portuguese women writers during Military Dictatorship and Estado Novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration”, that involves IELT, CICS.NOVA/Faces de Eva (NOVA FCSH), and CRILUS/UR, University of Paris Nanterre.

José Manuel da Costa Esteves teaches at the Université Paris Nanterre, where he has been coordinating the Lindley Cintra Chair of the Camões – I.P, since 2002. Additionally, he serves as deputy head of the research center CRILUS (Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires du monde lusophone, UR Etudes Romanes). He completed his studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He is a member of the Portuguese Association of Literary Critics, the editorial board of the journals Colóquio-Letras, Faces de Eva, Convergência Lusíada, Cahiers du Crepal, and has published extensively in the areas of language teaching, language and cultural policies, and modern and contemporary Portuguese literature. Some of his words include: La Littérature Portugaise contemporaine, Paris, 2008; Maria Judite de Carvalho: une écriture en liberté surveillée (with Maria Graciete Besse and Adelaide Cristóvão), Paris, 2012; Escritoras portuguesas no tempo da Ditadura Militar e do Estado Novo (with Teresa Almeida e Isabel Henriques de Jesus), Brussels, Peter Lang – a book that is part of the project “Escritoras portuguesas no tempo da Ditadura Militar e do Estado Novo em Portugal, África, Ásia e Países de Emigração,” of which he is a team member.

Born in the Dominican Republic, Inês Thomas Almeida holds a PhD in Historical Music Sciences from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and is a researcher at INET-md/NOVA FCSH. She was awarded a scholarship by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, and for her doctoral thesis O olhar alemão: A prática musical em Portugal em finais do Antigo Regime segundo fontes alemãs, under the supervision of Rui Vieira Nery, she was given the highest classification unanimously. She received a Merit Scholarship from the University of Évora in 2001 and 2002, awarded to the best student in each course. She lived in Germany from 2003 to 2016, where she created an NGO to support the Portuguese community in Berlin. In this context, she was responsible for numerous cultural, social and humanitarian initiatives and received several awards and distinctions for services to the community. Her main research interests are music in the 18th century, travel literature, women and music, proto-feminism, transnational cultural networks, as well as links between Germany, Austria and Portugal in the 18th century. Inês Thomas Almeida has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals on foreign travellers in Portugal, musical practices at the end of the Ancien Regime, the Sephardic salonnière Henriette Herz, the Duke of Lafões, and other topics related to 18th century and travelogue research. She was a lecturer at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra and regularly teaches free courses at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She continues an intense activity as a lecturer, both in national and international symposiums in her scientific area, as well as in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and at the National Theatre of São Carlos. She is also dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge to non-specialized audiences, which is reflected, for example, in the webinars she created on Musical Culture and Women Composers. [Scientific outputs]

Carla do Espírito Santo Guerreiro has degree in Portuguese-English (Teaching of), a Master’s degree in Theory of Literature, with the thesis: A Mundividência Infantil na Obra de Guerra Junqueiro and a PhD in Portuguese Literature/Literature for Childhood, with the dissertation: A Literatura para a Infância nos séculos XIX e XX – contextos sociais e contributos pedagógicos. All scientific degrees were awarded to her by the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. She has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Portuguese at Escola Superior de Educação – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, since 2002. She has been responsible, since 2000, when she took up her duties in Higher Education, for the coordination of various projects to promote books and reading with children and young people belonging to school groups in the municipality of Bragança. She is member of the Board of Directors of the Academia de Letras de Trás-os-Montes and the author of: A mundividência infantil na obra de Guerra Junqueiro, Memórias da casa grande  and co-author of the works Terra d’encontros, Vozes transmontanas, Rostos de terra, Gentes e lugares-contos e contas and Literatura de Natal.