Employees Category: Integrated Members

Teresa Araújo is a Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon, where she received her PhD in Romance Literatures (2000). She has also taught several courses at Lumière-Lyon 2, Carlos III, Agostinho Neto, Salamanca and Oviedo universities, among others. She dedicates her teaching and research activity to Portuguese literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, but focuses mostly on the study of the ancient and modern romanceiro in Portugal from a pan-Hispanic perspective, as well as of theatre and fables. Among her most recent publications, there are “Silvestre ou jogo da (in)subordição entre cinema & etnografia” (BLO, 2022) and the introductory study to the Floresta de varios romances sacados de las historias antiguas de los hechos famosos de los doze Pares de Francia. En Valencia, 1642 (México, 2019). From her experience in scientific coordination, it currently stands out the coordination of the Research Project supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Foundation for Science and Technology Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries). [Scientific outputs]

 

PhD in Portuguese Studies, having specialized in Portuguese Teaching (2015), M.A. in Anglo-Portuguese Studies (1998) and Diploma in Portuguese and English Modern Language and Literature (1994). Worked as substitute Professor of Portuguese Literature II at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1995/96) and has held several teaching and coordinating positions at Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, in Lisbon, from 1996 to the present. Also collaborates as a language consultant for “Ciberdúvidas”, is author of several articles and papers about good practice in language and literature teaching, as well as co-author of books about good usage of Portuguese language. [Scientific outputs]

 

Paula Cristina Lopes da Costa is an Associate Professor at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa since 1988. From the same University she has a Degree on Romanic Languages and Literatures (1985), a Master also on Romanic Languages and Literatures (1990), and a PHD on Modern Portuguese Literature (2000). António Ramos Rosa, um poeta in fabula (Quasi Ed., 2005) and O Crepúsculo do Contemporâneo (Nova Vega, 2020) are some of her most important publications. [Scientific outputs]

 

Nicolás Asensio Jiménez received his PhD in Spanish Literature by the Complutense University of Madrid (2020), with a thesis on the traditional ballads or romances related to the Battle of Roncesvalles. He currently works as assistant researcher at the IELT thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship from the European Commission. Together with Teresa Araújo, he develops the project The Golden Age of the Romancero: Echoes of Traditional Ballads in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature. [Scientific outputs]

She has a degree in Portuguese and French Studies, a Master’s in Comparative Literature, a PhD in Medieval Literature and a post-doctorate in the area of Profane and Mystical Literature of the Gharb al-Andalus. Arabist, author of various articles and the books Formas do Sagrado e do Profano na Tradição Popular; A Virgem, os Santos e o Santo Lenho. Exorcismos e Milagres and co-author of Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Brotas – Religiosidade Popular no Alentejo. Her main areas of research are medieval and traditional literature, the feminine, Arab and Islamic literature and culture, and Christian and Islamic mysticism. At the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), she is a researcher at IELT (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition) and collaborator of IEM (Institute of Medieval Studies), where she has been teaching free courses in the field of Arabic and Islamic literature and heritage of al-Andalus and Islamic mysticism. At the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) she is a collaborator at the History Centre (CH). She is the creator of the Arabic Lisbon Route, which she regularly runs for the tourist company Lisboa Autêntica. [Scientific outputs]

Natália Constâncio has an MA and a PhD in Portuguese Studies (Literature), with the thesis Subversão e Paródia na Obra de Mário de Carvalho (2012). She has several works on the cited writer, such as “Humanos, Animais e seus iguais: Epítome de uma morte anunciada, em Mário de Carvalho”, published in Falas da Terra no Séc. XXI (2011), Ruínas e Incertezas em Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, de Mário de Carvalho (2007) and Paixão, Aleivosia e Morte em O Conde Jano, by Mário de Carvalho (2004), among others. She is the author of the novels Romance de Dom Dinis. El-Rey que (Nom) Fez tudo Quanto Quis (2022) and O Homem que vivia dentro dos sonhos (2016). With the pseudonym Dulcineia, she signed the historical novel A súplica de D. Pedro (2014), the children’s book Inês, a Fada-Boneca – o roubo das Letras e das Cores do Arco-Íris (2015), and published poetry in anthologies. She collaborates on the projects LIT&TOUR (UAlg.), Ciclo da presença no Alto Alentejo, TRIPLOV Journal (CLEPUL), Writing Urban Places Working Group 3, and coordinates the project Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal together with The Historian Daniel Alves (IHC – NOVA FCSH), since 2018. [Scientific outputs]

 

 

Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese/French); graduate in Sociology and Ethnology of Religions; Master in Medieval Portuguese Literature and French; PhD in Traditional Literature from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. [Scientific outputs]

 

PhD at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2009). She did the edition, translation and presentation of Gossouin Metz, Imagem do Mundo. 1245 (Lisbon, IEM, 2010) and of Palmerin of England by Francisco de Moraes, edition based on the three sixteenth-century portuguese copies of the work. Recently she dedicated to Studies on the Imaginary, being also interested in medieval encyclopedism and cartography. Collaborates in the Portuguese Dialogues project. [Scientific outputs]

 

Retired professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she taught Twentieth-Century Portuguese Literature and Culture, Fernando Pessoa and Modernism Studies. Her research has focused on Fernando Pessoa’s estate, having published various editions and made many of his unpublished texts known. Another area of her research concerns the study of the concepts of tradition and modernity, and their relationship in modernist authors, trying to bridge the gap between modern and contemporary literature, and traditional literature. She has published some articles in this area. She also collaborates in the project Modern!smo: Virtual Archive of the Orpheu Generation. [Produção científica do investigador]

Luís Tarujo (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, School of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA University of Lisbon) is PhD in Roman Literatures (2013) and Master in Portuguese na Brazilian Studies (1999), by the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. In 1989, he took a degree in The Education of Portuguese and French in the Universidade de Aveiro. He has taught Portuguese and Portuguese Literature in Secondary Education and, as Guest Assistant in the Escola Superior de Educação Jean Piaget, the subjects of Língua e Literatura Portuguesa: Evolução e Didática da Língua Materna; Literatura Infanto-Juvenil e Expressão Poética; Evolução da Comunicação Linguística e Didática da Língua Materna. He has participated in various congresses, in Portugal and abroad, conveying speeches related to the topics Teatro de Cordel and Literatura Infanto-Juvenil. Teaches Literature at the Senior University Florbela Espanca (Matosinhos). He finished a Post-PhD, at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, about the works of José Saramago. [Scientific outputs]