Employees Category: Integrated Members

Simão Palmeirim completed an BFA Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL) (2007), an MFA at Central Saint Martins in London (2009) and a PhD in Art Sciences at FBAUL (2016). He works as an independent curator and is responsible for several scientific production and dissemination actions (conferences, editorial coordination, teacher training programs, digital contents, etc.) As a researcher at IELT (NOVA-FCSH) he explores the relations between theory and artistic practice in geometrical abstractionism in Portugal, with a particular focus on the work of Almada Negreiros. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee at CEDANSA (Almada Negreiros – Sarah Affonso Research and Documentation Center).

Associate Professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) and researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) of the same institution. His work focuses on Modern Literature and Textual Criticism, specialising in Fernando Pessoa and Portuguese Literary Modernism. He recently published the essay Ostensivo e Reservado, Leituras de Pessoa (IN, 2024) and edited two volumes of Eduardo Lourenço’s Complete Works, Pessoa Revisitado, Crítica Pessoana I (1949-1982) and O Lugar do Anjo, Crítica Pessoana II (1983-2017), published by the Gulbenkian Foundation. He coordinates the research project Estranhar Pessoa (estranharpessoa.com) and is co-editor of the Digital Edition of Fernando Pessoa: Projects and Publications (pessoadigital.pt). [Scientific outputs]

Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature, Portuguese and French Studies (University of Porto), Master in Portuguese and French Comparative Literature (New University of Lisbon), PhD in Romance Literature and Culture (University of Porto) and professor of French Language, Cultures and Translation at ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School, since 1991. Continuing his research in Portuguese Poetry and Interarts as a member of IELT (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition) and CEI (Center for Intercultural Studies), he has published articles on the poetry of Luiza Neto Jorge and the painting of Paula Rego, among which Dezanove Recantos: The Apocalyptic Epic of the Feminine and The becoming-animal in Luiza Neto Jorge and Paula Rego: Woman Goat, Woman-Dog and other metamorphoses stand out. In 2017, she published A Transfiguração do Feminino na Poesia de Luiza Neto Jorge (Berlin: Saarbrüken – Novas Edições Académicas), her doctoral thesis.

PhD in Portuguese Studies, speciality in Portuguese Literature, by Open University (Universidade Aberta), with the thesis Cesário Verde e a Aprendizagem da Poesia (2020). In the Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon, he defended his dissertation Manuel de Freitas: Os Lugares da Poesia (2007). He is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (NOVA FCSH), developing the Cesário Digital platform, an archive and reflection space on the relationships between literary modernity, memory and tradition. At the same time, he prepares the edition of Cesário Verde’s poems and letters. He was a Lecturer at the Camões Institute at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Algiers and at the Faculty of Arts at the Carolina University, Prague, and Director of the Portuguese Language Centre in this city. Since 2021, he has worked as a Cooperation Agent for the Camões Institute in the Directorate of Higher Education and Science of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. He is the author of several articles within the scope of contemporary Portuguese literature and co-author of Education Guidelines in various areas of the curricular area of Education for Citizenship.

PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, having specialized in Comparative Romance Literatures by Universidade Nova de Lisboa de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (2010), Master’s degree in Portuguese and French Comparative Literatures(1999) and Diploma in Portuguese and French Modern Language and Literature (1995) by the same University. Work as Secondary school teacher from 1994 to the present and is author of some articles and papers about Literature and Traditional Literature. Member of IELT as a researcher collaborator in some projects.

Teresa Sousa de Almeida is a researcher at IELT and a retired Associate Professor from NOVA FCSH, where she taught French Literature, Portuguese Literature and Feminist Theory. She headed four projects on women writers, financed by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese FCT. Between 2014 and 2017, she was responsible for coordinating the Mundus Master’s, Crossways in Cultural Narratives, financed by the European Union, along with Ana Morais and Ana Matos. She has written on contemporary Portuguese Literature, concerning Mário de Carvalho, Nuno Júdice, Maria Teresa Horta and Natália Nunes. [Scientific outputs]

Silvina Rodrigues Lopes is a retired professor of Literature Theory at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She obtained her aggregation degree in 1996 at NOVA University of Lisbon. She is the author of several books, including: Tão Simples como Isso; E se-pára; Sobretudo as Vozes Inconjuntos; A Legitimação em Literatura; Aprendizagem do Incerto; Teoria da Despossessão; A Alegria da Comunicação; Agustina Bessa-Luís. As Hipóteses do Romance; Literatura Defesa do Atrito; A Anomalia Poética; Exercícios de aproximação; A inocência do Devir; O Nascer do Mundo nas suas Passagens. She was a researcher at IHA – Art History Institute and CEIL – Centre for Studies on the Literary Imaginary. She is currently a researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. She coordinated the Dobra journal. [Scientific outputs]

 

Rui Zink is a writer and teacher in the department of Portuguese Studies, and is responsible for the disciplines in Edition Theory and Publishing and Editing at graduate level. His body of work – about 30 books comprising fiction and essay – has been translated into 15 languages. In 2009 he was Hélio and Amélia Pedroso Endowed Chair and Writer in Residence at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has been also been part of the Portuguese Summer School at the Middlebury College, Vermont. [Scientific outputs]

 

Palmira Morais Rocha de Almeida was born and lives in Lisbon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Romance Philology and a post-graduation in Brazilian and Portuguese-speaking African Literatures from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She completed a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Compared Romance Literatures) at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. A retired university lecturer, she currently devotes herself to research work. [Research outputs]

 

Degree in classical and Portuguese studies, Master of classical and medieval Portuguese literature, by the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon. PhD in literary Portuguese studies, by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon. Exerts activity as a high school teacher, in Portugal, and has developed studies on popularized Portuguese literature of the nineteenth-century and, more recently, on Portuguese literary and cultural circuits between the Seventeenth and the Nineteenth centuries.