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]

Ana Paula Guimarães

 

 

Associate Professor (School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Has a PhD in Portuguese Studies, Oral Literature. Founded the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) from School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). [Scientific outputs]

José Bértolo

I got my MA from the University of Lisbon in Comparative Studies, in 2015, with a dissertation on intermediality in the cinema of François Truffaut. In 2019, I finished my PhD in the International FCT PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhD-COMP), a joint programme involving the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, KU Leuven and the University of Bologna, with a thesis on spectrality in cinema with a focus on Portuguese filmmakers Manoel de Oliveira and João Pedro Rodrigues. I was a member of the University of Lisbon Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp) from 2013 to 2021. During this period, I was awarded two FCT Scientific Research Grants in CEComp Research Project “False Movement: Studies in Writing and Film” (2013-2015) and an FCT PhD fellowship (2015-2019). While being a member of CEComp, I participated in different projects in the field of Interart Studies, dealing especially with film, literature, and photography. In 2017, I was part of the team that created the research project “RIAL — Reality and Imagination in Art and Literature”. In 2021, I was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in IELT, thus becoming a full member and actively collaborating in the recently created project “Spectrality: Literature and the Arts”. Since 2022, this project’s team successfully applied for funding in the annual Call of FCT R&D Projects in All Scientific Domains, with the FCT Exploratory Project “GHOST — Spectrality: Literature and the Art (Portugal and Brazil)”. I am  the project’s co-PI. I was an Invited Teaching Assistant of Film Analysis, at the ULisbon School of Arts and Humanities (2017-2018). Since 2021, I have been an invited adjunct professor in ESAD-CR (Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, IPL), where I teach courses related to contemporary art and theory. I have also been teaching courses on the NOVA Summer School since 2022. In 2021, I co-created the online peer-reviewed journal Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies. I have been one of the four editors since its creation. I am also a photographer: https://www.josebertolo.com. [Scientific outputs]

Fernando Cabral Martins

Fernando Cabral Martins was Professor of Portuguese Literature at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He has written on modern portuguese literature, namely three books on Cesário Verde, Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa, and on the portuguese painting and film history. He organized annotated anthologies and prepared several literary editions of Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Almada Negreiros, Alexandre O’Neill, Luiza Neto Jorge. He has edited one reference book on Fernando Pessoa, portuguese modernism and avant-garde, Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. [Scientific Outputs]

Isabel Henriques de Jesus

Degree in educational psychology, graduate degree in Romance Literatures, and PHD in Romance Languages and Literatures, specializing in Modern Portuguese Literature. Thesis entitled The image of women in Portuguese literature in the late 1960s. Besides the field of teacher education where she worked for most of my professional life, feminist and gender studies have been her main area of research during the last 20 years. Coordinator of the Portuguese women writers during military dictatorship and estado novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration project, that aims to survey and study women who published between the years 1926 and 1974, as well as analyze their works and the contexts of their production. She coordinates a research team in the field of women’s studies and direct the journal Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, which is a biannual scientific publication.