Employees Category: Phd Students

Rita Anuar is a PhD student in Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa on an FCT scholarship. Her research project aims to explore the notions of knowledge and imagination in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol and Walter Benjamin, paying particular attention to the defence of both authors’ affinities with childhood and the figure of the “child”. She has a degree in Communication Sciences and a master’s degree in Contemporary Art History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In her master’s thesis, Body, Experience and Impossibility in Rui Chafes – an analysis of Sonho e Morte, Comer o Coração and Unsaid, she devoted herself to the problems of art historiography surrounding the work of the Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes. She has collaborated with publications in the fields of literature (Revista Limoeiro Real) and the visual arts (ArteCapital; Umbigo Magazine). She also writes and draws.

Teacher and pedagogical coordinator in basic education, she is a PhD student, at the Universidade Aberta, in Portuguese Studies – Portuguese Literature, studying the medieval imaginary in the Chronicle of the Order of Friars Minor. She holds a Master’s degree in Medieval History with the dissertation Barregãs e Bastardas Régias da Primeira Dinastia Portuguesa from NOVA FCSH and a degree in History, variant of Art History, from the School of Arts and Humanities (FLUL).

Nuno Ferreira Gonçalves is a musician, lecturer, researcher and writer. He graduated from the School of Music of the National Conservatory and has a master’s degree in Science of Religions from Universidade Lusófona. A prolific lecturer, he regularly participates in congresses, lectures and seminars dedicated to Portuguese mythical imagery and symbolic heritage. He is the author of the titles Os Obreiros do Grande Ocidente (Chiado, 2015), Os Mistérios do Verbo (Chiado, 2016), História Secreta da Ordem de Avis (Zéfiro, 2019), and A Tradição do Graal em Portugal (Zéfiro, 2022), as well as dozens of articles in the area of hermetic philosophy and Portuguese myth-history. Since 2010, he has directed a circle of theosophical studies dedicated to the work and thought of Professor Henrique José de Souza (founder of the Brazilian Theosophical Society). Currently, he is carrying out research in the area of specialty in Traditional Literature of the PhD Program in Portuguese Studies at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

PhD student at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, specializing in Comparative Studies. Holds a master’s degree from the same institution with the dissertation The word won by silence – Pilgrim dialogues between Herberto Helder and Paul Celan. Currently, developing a research project on literature and war focused on the works from António Lobo Antunes, Yannis Ritsos and Kateryna Kalykto.

Ph.D. candidate in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA FCSH. Ana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, specializing in French and English Studies. She attended the 1st and 2nd years of the Painting course at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She was awarded the NOVA Young Talent Award for best undergraduate student in the Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures programme in 2021 and the 1st Prize in French language translation by the Faculty of Humanities, Catholic University, in 2016. Ana occasionally collaborates on artistic curation projects.

Sandra Maria Cabral dos Santos was born in Melo in 1974. She has a degree in Primary Education and has been teaching since 1998. She completed a postgraduate course and a master’s degree in Multidisciplinary Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Aberta, having presented her dissertation Cartas a Sandra: a Simbiose entre o Privado e o Filosófico (Letters to Sandra: the symbiosis between the private and the philosophical), published by CLEPUL. She also obtained a diploma in Advanced Studies in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Portuguese Literature, from the NOVA FCSH of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the construction and representation of the child character in Vergílio Ferreira’s novels. In addition to her professional and academic activity, she is also the author of children’s literature books, and in 2017 she won the Lusophone Competition of the Trofa Matilde Rosa Araújo Prize, with the short story O Senhor Rimas.

Master in Text Editing and Bachelor in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (English and Portuguese Studies) from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Developed the project titled The (Un)finished Text – 35 Sonnets by Fernando Pessoa. Analysis and Edition as part of the Master’s in Text Editing. Areas of interest focus on the work of Fernando Pessoa, particularly the production in English. Member of the research project “Estranhar Pessoa.” Dedicates his research to the analysis of intertextualities and interpretative analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s English poetry, a project he will carry out as part of the PhD programme in Portuguese Studies at NOVA FCSH.

PhD student in Estudos Portugueses at NOVA FCSH, with an FCT scholarship, develops a project around Agustina Bessa-Luís and Manoel de Oliveira, based on the concept of melancholy. Bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Estudos Portugueses with the thesis “Modos de Cindir para Continuar. Uma leitura de A Noite e o Riso e Estação, de Nuno Bragança”. Has published two poetry books: Hidrogénio (Flan de Tal, 2020) and Rasura (Fresca, 2021) and received a literary creation scholarship from DGLAB. She is co-editor of Lote magazine.

Graduated in Philosophy (2015-2018) from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon. At the same institution, he obtained a Master’s degree in General Philosophy (2018-2021), with the dissertation On Baudelaire’s Laughter: A Translation Problem Between Subject and Life, and was awarded the Merit and Excellence Prize for best Master. He is currently a doctoral student in Philosophy (2022- ), specializing in Ontology and Philosophy of Nature, developing his project The Problem of Everydayness in Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, with a research scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology. He is a collaborating member of IELT, where is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa, and also of IFILNOVA, thus covering the two aspects – literary and philosophical, respectively – of his doctoral research.