Employees Category: Contributing Members

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.

Nuno Amado is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He earned his PhD in 2016 from the Program in Literary Theory (Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon), with a thesis on Fernando Pessoa. He regularly collaborates with the Estranging Pessoa project-team (University of Lisbon and New University of Lisbon). His main interests are Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Literature, Art, Philosophy and Literary Theory. He is the author of Os Anos da Vida de Ricardo Reis (1887-1936), and the editor of Toda uma Literatura: Caeiro – Reis – Campos, an anthology on the work of Pessoa´s three main heteronyms.

Joana Costa holds a degree in Portuguese Studies and a master’s degree in Portuguese Teaching, both from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University NOVA of Lisbon. Currently, she is studying for a master’s degree in Portuguese Studies at the same institution and is preparing a dissertation entitled “Message in the Continuous Dialogue of Drama in People”, about the connections between heteronymy and that Fernando Pessoa book of poems. About this writer, she previously also gave a presentation entitled “Inevitable names: veils and covers of the same thing”, at the 13^th Open Seminar of Estranhar Pessoa Project, and a presentation entitled “Romance atoms that went to have fever in Pessoa”, at the VII International Congress of the Romanceiro.

Christophe Araújo is an assistant professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre since September 2023. Former member of the EHEHI of the Casa de Velázquez, winner of the Mário Soares Prize 2022 with his thesis Being a historian during an authoritarian regime: Power and Knowledge in Portugal (1926-1974), his work focuses on historiography, the prosopography of academic circles and the links between language and political power.

Diogo Marques is a researcher in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, CODA, and a member of ILCML, Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, FLUP. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. in Materialities of Literature (University of Coimbra). His thesis focuses on the analysis of haptic interfaces as expressive elements in computational literature. He was a postdoctoral researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (NOVA FCSH), within the scope of the VAST: values across space & time (2020-21) project and Research Fellow at Fernando Pessoa University, Porto (2018-2020). In 2020, he co-organized a volume of essays titled  Investigação-Experimentação-Criação: em Arte-Ciência-Tecnologia   (Porto: FFP Press). He is an author, curator, and translator of experimental (cyber)literature and co-founding member of wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 collective (https://wreading-digits.com). He collaborates with IELT, NOVA FCSH; MATLIT LAB, Humanities Laboratory of the University of Coimbra; Artech-Int – International Association of Computational Art; ELO – Electronic Literature Organization; and APEAA – Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies.

Carlotta Defenu holds a Ph.D. in Textual Criticism from the University of Lisbon; her doctoral thesis examined the genesis and revision process of Fernando Pessoa’s orthonymous poems. She has published various articles and book chapters in the field of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and genetic translation studies, with a special focus on the work of Fernando Pessoa. Recently, she co-organized, with João Dionísio and Carlota Pimenta, the exhibition “Spot the Differences: variation in Portuguese literature from the Middle Ages until the day before yesterday” at the National Library of Portugal.

PhD in Literature (2022) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil), Master in Classical Studies (2011) from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Lisbon (FL-UL) and Graduated in Musicology (2010) from the NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) and Languages, Literatures and Cultures (2007) from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Lisbon (FL-UL). Between 2013 and 2016, he was proofreader and head of sales and distribution at the Federal University of Grande Dourados Press House (EdUFGD, Brazil). He is, since October 2023, a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) at NOVA FCSH. He is also a guitarist and composer.

Ana Luísa R. Moreira has a bachelor’s degree in History from NOVA FCSH (2020-2023) and is currently enrolled as a Master’s student in Modern History in the same institution. Her main areas of scientific interest are: History of the Book, Palaeography, Cultural and Mentalities History in the modern period and Social History.