Carlos Clamote Carreto

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 IELTVice-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]

Aurízia Anica

 

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

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

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]

Maria Natividade Pires

Professor coordinator at the Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. PhD in Portuguese Literature, University of Coimbra, in 2001, and Master in Portuguese and French Comparative Literature. She has participated in projects related to traditional storytelling, children’s literature and intercultural education, in the context of teacher training. She is a professor of Children’s Literature and Traditional Literature. She has coordinated the pilot project “To want ant to be able to Read: an experience in formal and non-formal contexts”, developed under the National Reading Plan (2006-2010). She collaborated with the Institut International Charles Perrault (Eaubonne – France) in research projects in the field of children’s literature. Her research has addressed traditional tales and their subversion. She is author of books, like Pontes e Fronteiras. Da Literatura Tradicional à Literatura Contemporânea (2005); Educação Intercultural e Literatura Infantil (2010), with M. Morgado; Literatura Infantil e Juvenil. Formação de Leitores (2013), with A. Balça. Between 2014-2016 she was a member of the Erasmus+ European Project teams “Aqua Narrabilis” (NARRation – Acquisition of Basic skills In Libraries and Schools), coordinated by the Institut für Bibliotheksentwicklung, Gratz-Áustria, and “Boys Reading”, coordinated by the University of Split, Croácia. In 2015-2017, she was also a member of the European Project team Erasmus + “IDPBC – Identity and Diversity in Picture Book Collections” and in 2019-2021, member of the European team of the Project “e-Mysteries – Detective Stories to Engage Students in Close Reading with the Use of Mobile Devices”. She coordinates, since 2017, a Protocol between the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and the Polytechnic Institute of Macau (since 2022, Polytechnic University of Macau) that covered a degree in Chinese and, since 2018, a degree in Portuguese. [Scientific outputs]

Maria Manuel Valagão

PhD in Environmental Sciences from NOVA School of Science and Technology (1990). Researcher in Food and Environmental Sociology (Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, 1976-2009; guest lecturer at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, 1996-2003). Currently a researcher at IELT – NOVA FCSH (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition). Author and co-author of several publications, such as: Tradição e Inovação Alimentar (Colibri, 2006); the book Natureza, Gastronomia & Lazer (Colibri, 2009) was awarded with the “Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique 2010”; Algarve Mediterrânico. Tradição, Produtos e Cozinhas (Tinta-da-china, 2015), co-written with Vasco Célio and Bertílio Gomes, was awarded with the “Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique 2016”, the 3rd prize of the Best Cookbook of the Year – World Gourmand Awards (2016) and Cookbook of the Year in Portugal (2015); Vidas e Vozes do Mar e do Peixe (Tinta-da-china, 2018), co-written with Nídia Braz e Vasco Célio, was awarded with the prize Cookbook of the Year in Portugal (2019); Alimentação Natureza e Paisagem, (Tinta-da-china, 2022), co-written with Maria Elvira Ferreira, José António Passarinho and Vasco Célio, won the Cookbook of the Year in Portugal (2022); author of Património Alimentar de  Portugal (to be published by the by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2024). [Scientific outputs]

Margarida Esperança Pina

 

Assistant Professor at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she has been teaching in the areas of Literary Studies and Translation. She is a researcher at IELT and collaborates with CEAUL – Universidade de Lisboa. Her main areas of interest focus on French Literature and Literature and other arts (Food Studies, History of Medicine / Narrative Medicine). She is a researcher on the project – Cost Action Proposal OC – 2019 1-23925 – Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels in the Iberian Cultural area (since 2020) and is a collaborator on the project – Humanités Médicales (Centro Théorie et Histoire des Arts et des Littératures de la Modernité – THALIM / Université Paris 3, since 2018). [Scientific outputs]

Nuno Ribeiro

Nuno Ribeiro is a contracted assistant researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (NOVA FCSH), with a project (reference CEECIND/08872/2023) financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Competition – 6th Edition. He has a PhD in Philosophy – in the area of Aesthetics – from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, with a thesis on Pessoa’s philosophical archive entitled Tradition and Pluralism in the Philosophical Writings of Fernando Pessoa, having been subsidized with a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (April 2008 to April 2012). He developed a post-doctoral research funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), at the Federal University of São Carlos (November 2012 to October 2015), on Fernando Pessoa’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s archives. He also carried out post-doctoral research funded by the Department of Philosophy of the University of São de Paulo, within the scope of the PNPD/CAPES program (December 2016 to July 2017). He also developed post-doctoral research on Fernando Pessoa at the Institute for the Study of Traditional Literature (NOVA University Lisbon/ Faculty of Social and Human Sciences), with funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology (September 2017 to October 2023). He graduated in philosophy at New University of Lisbon (2003-2007), having won a merit scholarship. He is the author of books, articles and book chapters published in Europe, Brazil and the United States, with a special focus on the work of Fernando Pessoa. [Scientific outputs]

Sara Lacerda Campino

 

Sara Lacerda Campino holds both Master and PhD Degrees in Portuguese Studies, with a specialization in Literary Studies, awarded by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon. She was an FCT Doctoral Fellow while researching for her thesis with the title Training the eye: reading portuguese experimental poetry from the second half of the 20th century. Her academic interests are focused on experimental poetry, visuality, materiality and word-image relations. She also has a BA in Architecture from Instituto Superior Técnico at University of Lisbon. [Scientific outputs]

Joana Castaño

 

Joana Castaño holds a PhD from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Universidade de Oviedo (2021), with the thesis Espanha no Teatro de Manuel de Figueiredo. She was a visiting lecturer of Camões-IP at the University of Oviedo and at the University of São Tomé and Príncipe (2010-2018). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Portuguese Studies (2005) and a Master in Portuguese as a Second and Foreign Language (2010) both from Nova University of Lisbon. Her research interests include second/foreign language didactics, African literature in Portuguese language and 18th century theatre. Currently she is a Portuguese teacher. [Scientific outputs]