Employees Category: Integrated Members

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]

 

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.

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]

 

PhD in Anthropology from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Coordinating Professor at the University of Algarve, where she directs the Department of Social Sciences and Education (ESEC) and the Masters degrees in Social Gerontology and in Management and School Administration. She co-edited the ebook Envelhecimento e Educação (2014) and she is the author of the books entitled As Mulheres, a Violência e a Justiça no Algarve de Oitocentos (2005) and A Transformação da Violência no Século XIX (2003). Her most recent research has been conducted on topics of Social Gerontology and Contemporary Cultural History. [Scientific outputs]

Ana Margarida Chora has a degree in Portuguese Studies, holding M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Romance Literatures (with the thesis: A Deusa em Camelot / The Goddess in Camelot). Her main research fields are the Matter of Britain, Orientalism (literary and artistic), the Feminine and the Imaginary. She published several academic articles, the work Lancelot, other works about Bocage, and also three poetry books. She’s a high school teacher, teaching Portuguese Literature and serving as head of the Department of Languages, having worked as well at university levels. She is a member of the board of the Center for the Studies of Bocage. She’s also dedicated to painting and performing arts. [Scientific outputs]

Ana Paiva Morais teaches French and Portuguese medieval literature and contemporary French Literature at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her research work focuses mainly on short narrative genres, with a special interest in the reception of medieval works in modern and contemporary literature and in the connections of medieval texts and the folktale. She has published several articles and studies on the fabliaux, the exempla and the fables in medieval and traditional literature. She was research leader of the FCT funded project A Catalogue and Critical History of the Fable in Portuguese Literature hosted by the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of NOVA. [Scientific outputs]