Employees Category: Contributing Members

 

Andrea Ragusa (Turin, 1979) graduated from the University of Turin and received a PhD from the New University of Lisbon, in Portuguese Studies. He is currently a professor in the field of translation and linguistics studies at the University of Parma and a researcher at the IELT, within the scope of language and literature studies in the 19th century. He is co-director of the review Appunti leopardiani (Florianópolis) and member of the editorial board of Edizioni dell’Orso (Italy). He translated into Italian some works by Portuguese-speaking writers, including Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa and José de Almada Negreiros. [Scientific outputs]

 

Assistant Professor with habilitation at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she has taught in the field of Comparative Literature and Literary Studies. Her areas of study include short fiction history and theory, narratology, comparative literature, regionalist literature and narrative medicine. She is a researcher of the Project in Medical Humanities of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. [Scientific outputs]

Post-Doctorate in Literary Studies, by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PhD in Contemporary Portuguese Literature, and Master in Portuguese Studies, by the same University. Researcher at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH). She works in the domains of Literature and the Arts and their close relationship, namely in the field of research on literary and artistic education. She is the author of the books Manuel António Pina – Uma Pedagogia do Literário (Solar System – DOCUMENTA, 2017); Mário de Sá-Carneiro: Um Instante de Suspensão (Edições Vendaval, 2003). She coordinates the research project Por uma Pedagogia Criativa, on Manuel António Pina’s work for children. She also coordinates, within the scope of her research, two pedagogical projects: Motiv/Art (Art Citizenship), which aims to promote Literature and the Arts in the 1st cycle of Basic Education and (in the 2021-2022 biennium) the project Confi/Arte: re-creative workshops − Arts and Education for the Values of Global Citizenship in the 21st Century (with the support of DgArtes). She wrote three books for children: Missing Beauty (2007) (Hans Christian Andersen Literary Prize, from Figueira da Foz City), The Blue Pencil (2008); The Land of Wise Men (2021). She also wrote, in co-authorship with Gustavo Rubim, the theater play Assim também Eu (2010). She is the creator and editor of Revista Dobra Literatura Arte Design. She is also the author of several articles, published in specialized magazines, within the scope of contemporary Portuguese literature and the promotion of literary reading in close connection with an artistic education since childhood. [Scientific outputs]

 

Marcelo Brice Assis Noronha is a researcher at IELT, in a post-doctoral internship, with the research project Quincas Borba and the machadian plot – imbrications: people, books, politics, and delirium, under the supervision of Doctor Abel Barros Baptista. He is a professor at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT-Brazil) in the Social Sciences course – Porto Nacional-TO. Graduated in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG-Brasil) with a master and doctorate from the same institution. He Has experience in the field of Sociology, with emphasis on sociological theory, sociology of culture, sociology of literature, sociology of literary criticism, and culture. Working mainly on the following topics: Machado de Assis, Machado critique, art and society, aesthetics, literature, discourse, social thought in Brazil, development, power, and politics.

 

Luís Bueno got his Doctorate degree in Literary Theory and History from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in 2001. Teaches Brazilian Literature and Literary Theory at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) since 1996. He has been post-doctorate researcher in Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2007-2008) and in King’s College London (2014-2015) and has published, among others, the books Uma história do romance de 30 (Edusp/ Editora Unicamp, 2ª ed 2015), Capas de Santa Rosa (SENAC/ Ateliê, 2016) e Paradeiro (2018).

Vicente Paulino was born in Holsa-Maliana on October 1st, 1978. Holds a PhD in ‘Culture and Communication’ (2012) from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He also holds a Degree in Communication Sciences, variant of Communication, Culture and Art from the New University of Lisbon and a Master in Communication Science (specialization in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies), also from the New University of Lisbon. He was a Secretary of RENETIL, Maliana – Timor-Leste (1999-2000); founder and editor of the Bulletin kuda Ulun Lian, Maliana – Timor-Leste (1999-2001); observer of the Timor-Leste Constituent Assembly Election (2001). Actually, Professor at the National University Timor Lorosa’e and Director of the Center for Cultural and Arts Studies at the National University of Timor Lorosa’e (CECA-UNTL). From 2013 to 2020 he assumed the role of Director of the Unit Production and Dissemination Knowledge in Postgraduate and Research Program UNTL. He was Guest Professor for the Master’s course in International Relationship at the University of Peace (UNPAZ) in 2016-2017.

 

Doctorate in Social Anthropology at ISCTE with a thesis Inovação e Resistência – Um estudo sobre estratégias nas companhas de pesca (Póvoa de Varzim). Develops ethnographic research on fishing communities about the fishing technology impacts on natural resources and social relationships. Its main interest are cultural heritage in coastal communities, using methods and tools from ethnography and geography to the development of his research. [Scientific outputs]