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]
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.
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]
Post-Doctoral fellow within the scope of the research project Estranhar Pessoa of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. His work focuses on literary and theatrical modernity, with an emphasis on the works of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Andrade. He has published more than a dozen articles in specialized journals and book chapters, most of them focused on Pessoa. He edited the compilation Me esqueci completamente de mim, sou um departamento de cultura (with Carlos Augusto Calil, IMESP, 2015), the anthology Primero de Mayo y otros cuentos (with Jorge Uribe, Uniandes, 2017), by Mário de Andrade, and the volume Mário de Andrade por ele mesmo, by Paulo Duarte (Todavia, 2022). He is also a member of the research group Estudos Pessoanos. [Scientific Outputs]
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.
Márcia Liliana Seabra Neves has an undergraduate degree in Teaching Portuguese and French from the University of Aveiro. She finished her PhD in Culture, in December 2010, at the same University with a thesis entitled Da francofilia no imaginário presencista: da NRF à presença. Between 2012 and 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow and a member of the Institute for the Study of Literary and Tradition, at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Here she developed a research project under the theme Zooficções: figuras da animalidade nas narrativas portuguesa e brasileira contemporâneas (SFRH/BPD/80743/2011). Since February 2019, she has been a hired researcher at IELT / School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she also teaches Francophone Literature, 19th Century French Culture and Literature, in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Modern Literatures. Her current research focuses on the theme Zoofições e geopoéticas: cartografias da animalidade. She is also a collaborating member of the Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Aveiro. She has published several articles in the scope of cultural studies, comparative literature and the figuration of animality in the Portuguese narrative of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Scientific outputs]
Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature (Portuguese/English) by Faculdade de Letras (Lisbon University), Master in Comparative Literature, and with a PhD in Literature and Culture Studies. Her research is focused on Fernando Pessoa’s marginalia and Fernando Pessoa’s writings. She has participated in multiple meetings and conferences in Portugal and abroad and she has published several essays in literary magazines and online papers. She is a member of IELT and “Estranhar Pessoa” team. She has been working as a teacher at secondary schools and at university. Meanwhile, she has been working as teacher in the programme of secondary teachers professional training. [Scientific outputs]
Ana Sirgado is a research fellow at IELT and team member of the project RELIT-Rom “Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries)”. She completed her PhD in Traditional and Oral Literature at NOVA University of Lisbon in 2017. She was also a Guest Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH where she teached Portuguese Renaissance Literature for undergraduate programmes (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-24). Her research interests include Portuguese Literature of the 16th century and traditional literature, focusing mostly on the pan-Hispanic ballad and on its relationship with canonical works of literature. She is the co-author of Romances Tradicionais do Distrito de Bragança (IELT, 2019), along with J. J. Dias Marques, and author, amongst other publications, of “As jovens aventuras de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar: reavaliação de um testemunho do romanceiro novo” (RCIM, 2022) and of “Romances e provérbios na literatura portuguesa quinhentista: o caso de «erros por amores»” (BLO, 2022). [Scientific outputs]
Marta Braga holds a PhD in Languages, Literatures and Cultures at School of Social Sciences from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, with the thesis entitled Subsídios para um conceito de crueldade na literatura: Diálogos plurívocos entre textos modernistas franceses e portugueses (2021). During 2016 and 2020, she was lecturer of Portuguese and French Studies at the University of Santa Barbara, California ( UCSB). In the last few years, she has been publishing articles in index journals at United States of America and in Portugal. [Scientific outputs]
Lucília Chacoto is a professor in the University of Algarve (Portugal) and has a PhD in Linguistics (2005) with the dissertation O Verbo Fazer em Construções Nominais Predicativas. Researcher at IELT (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) since 2018. Her main research areas are Syntax, Phraseology, Paremiology, Translation. Chacoto is a reviewer of Entrepalavras (since 2011); Revista Galega de Filoloxía (since 2020); Paremia (since 2009); editor of Board of Estudos de Literatura Oral (since 2006); and collaborates with several other scientific reviews. She participates in several scientific committee of International Scientific Conferences and Workshops. Since 2001, she has a Certificate of Registo de Formador, both in Portuguese and in Linguistics, by Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua. [Scientific outputs]