Employees Category: Phd Students

Mariana Nascimento is a PhD student in Comparative Studies at NOVA FCSH and the University of Warwick. She is developing a thesis on figurations of remains in the works of Fernando Guerreiro, Manuel Gusmão and Teresa Villaverde. It explores the possibility of a hybrid and dialogic language manifested in objects that are also compound and phantasmatic. She holds a Master’s Degree in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies, with a dissertation entitled The Residue as the Resistance of Matter: the Rematerialisation of the World through Poetry and Photography (FCSH). She has a degree in Arts and Humanities from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.

 

PhD student in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Literature Studies, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She has taught Portuguese and Portuguese Literature at various levels of education, from secondary to higher education. She has been carrying out research in different – yet interdependent – areas, focusing mainly on Portuguese literature of the 20th and 21st centuries and feminism in the early 20th century. She has published extensively on these subjects. [Scientific outputs]

 

Diana Duarte Ferreira is a doctoral student in Portuguese Studies at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has a degree in Portuguese Studies from the same institution. She has been developing her research on Brazilian literature, literary theory, and interart studies. Since 2021, she has been a PhD research fellow at IELT/FCT. [Scientific outputs]

Cristina Mendonça is a Ph.D. student in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA FCSH. Graduated in Languages, Literatures and Cultures – French and English Studies and Master in Modern Literatures and Cultures, major in Romance Studies at the same institution. In 2021, she published her master’s thesis in Le Manuscrit (collection «Extopies») Identidades artísticas e dimensões da écfrase: Construção da personagem-artista em quatro obras de expressão francesa, as a result from the 1st Prize of “Jeunes Chercheurs en Études Françaises et Francophones au Portugal”, organized by APEF (Portuguese Association of French Studies).

Associate Professor of the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém. Head of the Department of Languages and Literatures. Teaching areas: Literature (Literary Theory; Modern & Contemporary Portuguese Literature) and Literary Education (Children’s Literature; Didactics of Language Development in nursery and kindergarten). Publishes in the area of gender and education. PhD candidate in Comparative Literature.

Ana Sofia David has a degree in Classical Philology (Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas) and postgraduate studies in Education in the same area at the Faculdade de Letras – Universidade de Lisboa. She has a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies (Literaturas e Poéticas Comparadas) at the Universidade de Évora, with a dissertation about children’s literature and video games. Currently, she is a PhD student in Portuguese Studies (Estudos Portugueses) at NOVA FCSH, studying the poetic places of Daniel Faria.

 

Cristina Carneiro de Menezes is a PhD student in Gender Studies with the doctoral thesis project entitled Escrita sócio-memorialística feminista: o impacto e os sentidos da narrativa de Annie Ernaux no Brasil e em Portugal. She holds a master’s degree in Women’s Studies by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 2020, with the dissertation en-tited Escrita feminina e narrativa na construção da subjetividade e da identidade da personagem Lenù na tetralogia napolitana de Elena Ferrante. Also has a career as journalist since 2005.

 

Marta Carmezim Gonçalves is a Portuguese Studies PhD student at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. After concluding the Master’s in Heritage, focuses on the scientific fields of Intangible Heritage, Ethnography and Literary Studies, having published several articles in scientific magazines such as Memoriamedia Review (2021) and Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnografia (2021). Currently, focuses on Sacred and Historical portuguese legends about religious buildings and sites.

 

With a degree in Portuguese Language and Culture and a postgraduate degree in Textual Criticism from the Faculty of Arts of University of Lisbon, she is currently a PhD candidate in Portuguese Studies (Literature Studies) at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, focusing on her thesis in the work of Maria Velho da Costa. Within the scope of her research area, she has published articles, book chapters and participations in international conferences. She teaches Culture and Portuguese Language courses at ICLP (University of Lisbon) and participates in research projects at UNESP and UNICAMP (Brazil). She also collaborates in different inclusive art projects.

 

PhD student in Portuguese Studies, at FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with an FCT grant, develops the research project on alchemy and metaphor in the poetics of Herberto Helder and Yvette Centeno. He attended a degree in Theater at the University of Évora, graduated in Art Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and a master’s degree in Comparative Studies from the same institution, with the dissertation: Urfaust and Heinrich von Ofterdingen: a comparative study in the light of alchemical thinking. Not escaping from his Dionysian roots, he is still an actor and fado singer