Employees Category: Executive Comission

Márcia Liliana Seabra Neves has an undergraduate degree in Teaching Portuguese and French from the University of Aveiro. She finished her PhD in Culture, in December 2010, at the same University with a thesis entitled Da francofilia no imaginário presencista: da NRF à presença. Between 2012 and 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow and a member of the Institute for the Study of Literary and Tradition, at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Here she developed a research project under the theme Zooficções: figuras da animalidade nas narrativas portuguesa e brasileira contemporâneas (SFRH/BPD/80743/2011). Since February 2019, she has been a hired researcher at IELT / School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she also teaches Francophone Literature, 19th Century French Culture and Literature, in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Modern Literatures. Her current research focuses on the theme Zoofições e geopoéticas: cartografias da animalidade. She is also a collaborating member of the Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Aveiro. She has published several articles in the scope of cultural studies, comparative literature and the figuration of animality in the Portuguese narrative of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Scientific outputs]

 

Auxiliar Professor at Universidade Aberta, where she teaches since 1989. She has published articles in various specialized journals, collective publications and proceedings, national and foreign, as well as two books on Iberian medieval historiography (Metamorfoses de Babel, of 2003 and La identidad de la historiografía of 2013). Her research lies within the framework of Compared Literature, Imagology and the Studies on the Imaginary, and her main areas of interest are Medieval Literature, 16th century Literature, Oral and Traditional Literature, and Textual Edition. [Scientific outputs]

Inês de Ornellas e Castro is an Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH and Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School. She as a PhD in Latin Language and Culture by Nova University Lisbon (2007), where she sustained the thesis De la table des Dieux a la table des Hommes. La symbolique de l’alimentation dans l’antiquité romaine (Harmattan, 2011). She is a research coordinator at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition and collaborates with various International research networks. Although her main field of research has been cultural history of food and body in Antiquity and medical Neo Latin texts, she is also interested on paleography and textual criticism. Apart from books, she had published chapters and presented conferences on female writing subjects (Renaissance and Enlightenment) and Portuguese bromatology Latin texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She coordinates with Carmen Soares the international project DIAITA – Lusophony Food Heritage. [Scientific outputs]

 

Professor at NOVA FCSH, working on the Portuguese Studies Department. He teaches maninly Brazilian Literature; others areas of interest: Literary Theory and the teaching of literature. He has published several studies on authors and topics pertaining Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, namely a number of books on the work of Camilo Castelo Branco and Machado de Assis. He is the head of the research group Literary tradition, texts, arts, theories. [Scientific outputs]

Full Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon where he is currently Vice-Dean for Planning and Quality Management and Scientific Vice-coordinator of IELT. Vice-Dean for Planning and Quality and President of the Pedagogical Council. Besides being researcher and scientific sub-director of IELT, he is also a collaborating member of the Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) and of GRIS-France. His main teaching and research fields focus on French Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Medieval Studies and Studies on the Imaginary. He is a founding member and permanent member of the editorial board of the interdisciplinary Luso-French journal Sigila, and belongs to the the scientific board of several journals linked to literary and inter-art studies. His publications have focused mainly on the dynamic relations between Tradition, Myth and Literature with special attention to medieval narrative. [Scientific outputs]

Teresa Araújo is Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon, where she received her PhD in Romance Literatures (2000). She has also taught several courses at Lumière-Lyon 2, Carlos III, Agostinho Neto, Salamanca and Oviedo universities, among others. She dedicates her teaching and research activity to Portuguese literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, but focuses mostly on the study of the ancient and modern romanceiro in Portugal from a pan-Hispanic perspective, as well as of theatre and fables. Among her most recent publications, there are “Silvestre ou jogo da (in)subordição entre cinema & etnografia” (BLO, 2022) and the introductory study to the Floresta de varios romances sacados de las historias antiguas de los hechos famosos de los doze Pares de Francia. En Valencia, 1642 (México, 2019). From her experience in scientific coordination, it currently stands out the coordination of the Research Project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Foundation for Science and Technology Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries). [Scientific outputs]