Employees Category: External Advisory Committee

 

Vicenç Beltran was a full professor at the Universities of Cádiz, Barcelona and Sapienza in Rome. He is a specialist in textual criticism and other literary research techniques. For several years, he was president of the Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval and is a member of the Junta Directiva da Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, honorary president of the Asociación Convivio and a member of the Institut d’ Estudis Catalans. He provides scientific advice to numerous journals, editorial collections and various research support and funding entities.

Órla Murphy is Director of the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork. Her teaching activity and publications reflect scientific interests such as paleography, codicology and textual transmission from orality to cyberculture. She was National Coordinator of DARIAH-IE (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities); National representative on the Scientific Committee of the CoST-EU (cooperation in Science and Technology) and on the SCI SWG Social and Cultural Innovation Special Working Group of ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures). She has also received the following awards: Fulbright TechImpact Award, NFTLHE National Teaching Expert Award, College of Arts Research funding awards and UCC Strategic fund for excellence in research awards. She is currently PI of the project “Embedding Digital Literacies in Irish HEIs” funded by the IrishResearch Council.

Alcir Pécora is Full Professor of Literary Theory at the State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil) and has been dedicating his studies mainly to rhetoric, oratory and poetics, having also extensive activity as a literary critic. He is currently a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan (Italy) and Director of the Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Unicamp (Idea). Among other works, he wrote Teatro do Sacramento (1994), Máquina de Gêneros (2001) and Rudimentos da Vida Coletiva (2002). He is the organizer of A Arte de Morrer (1994), Escritos Históricos e Políticos do Padre Vieira (1995), Sermões I e II (2000-2001), As Excelências do Governador (2002), Lembranças do Presente (2006), Índice das Coisas Mais Notáveis (2010) and Por que Ler Hilda Hilst (2010). He edited the works of Hilda Hilst (2001-2008), Roberto Piva (2005-2008) and Plínio Marcos (2017).