Master degree in Philosophy – Aesthetics in NOVA FCSH with the thesis Apontamentos sobre a Improdutividade. PhD Student in Portuguese Studies – Literature Studies. Architect. Assistant in Faculdade de Belas-Artes-UL, where co-founded the art exhibitions PRÉ-REFORMA and CINE-MONITOR cinema sessions. Member and volunteer in the GOELA (Lisboa) and Luzlinar (Feital) art associations.
Paula Frade is a Phd student in Literary Studies, Languages, Literature and Cultures, and a researcher from the IELT, at NOVA FCSH. She has a Degree and Masters in Translation, from the same institution. Her main research focus is in the area of juvenile literature and fable. She correlated her activity as researcher, PhD student and translator, with a professional occupation as manager of a real estate investment company. She lived between Prague and Lisbon from 2006 to 2012. In her spare time she is an artist especially dedicated to acrylic painting, tile painting and pyroengraving.
In 2007 I joined NOVA FCSH where I graduated in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Portuguese-German). During that time at the invitation of the italian and german teachers of the university, I attended an italian language and culture course in Perugia, and I also participated for two consecutive years in an exchange program with students from all over Europe which took place in Hannover. In 2013 I concluded the Master in Portuguese Studies and three years later I started the Phd in Portuguese Literature.
Maria Schtine Viana is a PhD student at the Department of Portuguese Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is also a member of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT). She was a research assistant at Centre for the Humanities (CHAM ). She is a doctoral grant from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Institute of Brazilian Studies at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), in the program Brazilian Cultures and Identities (2013). She has a Bachelor of Arts’ Degree in French and Portuguese Languages and Literatures (2004), awarded by the Department of Modern Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo. She has been a visiting researcher at the Département des Sciences du Langage of the Université de Rouen, France (1998). She took courses and workshops in performing arts at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and has acted as an actress and playwright in several theater companies in São Paulo. She worked for two decades as an editor at several publishing houses in São Paulo. She is the author of textbooks and books aimed at the training of teachers, as well as children’s books and youth literature. Through her research work she has been exploring the following themes: Brazilian literature, Portuguese literature, French literature, book publishing history and the social history of children’s books. [Scientific outputs]
Maria Isabel Lemos is an anthropologist and focuses her research on the policies and displays of culture within the scope of Oral Traditions, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Literature. Contributor to the Working Group “Narrative Cultures” (SIEF) and PhD candidate in the “Anthropology: Policies and Displays of Culture and Museology” (ISCTE-IUL) program, she is currently developing a research project on traditional Cape Verdean narratives and their circulation in different social contexts, as well as their categorization as intangible cultural heritage. Master in Visual Cultures (NOVA FCSH) and Bachelor in International Relations (IBMEC/RJ), has developed different projects in partnership with the Cape Verde Cultural Heritage Institute (IPC-CV) and several museums.
PhD student in Portuguese Studies at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is a Portuguese teacher at Instituto Federal da Bahia (Brazil) and a researcher at Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação (CIAC – UAlg) and at Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH). Her areas of interest are literature, culture and tourism.
Major in Portuguese with Minor in Philosophy in Universidade de Coimbra. Master in Portuguese Studies in Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, with dissertation in Herberto Helder. PhD Candidate in Portuguese Studies by the same university, working in a thesis in Almada Negreiros. In 2021, he published the essay “The poem’s passion in Herberto Helder” in Diacrítica. [Scientific outputs]
Carlos Conte Neto (São Paulo, Brazil, 1985) has a degree in Social Sciences (2009) from the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas of the Universidade de São Paulo and a Masters in Portuguese Studies (2020) from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, having received the Best Master 2019/20 distinction. Between 2007 and 2017, he taught basic (2nd and 3rd cycles) and secondary education in schools in São Paulo. He is currently doing a PhD in Portuguese Studies at NOVA FCSH, where he develops research on Portuguese fiction from the 1950s with funding from the FCT.