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PhD in Philosophy from PUC-Rio (2024), with a focus on Aesthetics and Contemporary Philosophy, with the thesis Friendship of forms: the poem-essay in Marília Garcia. Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Federal Fluminense University (2015) and Master’s degree in Philosophy with an emphasis on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from the same University, with the dissertation Forms of thought, forms of philosophy: A reading of The Essay as Form, by Theodor W. Adorno (2018), supervised by Prof. Dr. Pedro Sussekind and finalist of the Philosopher of Academic Excellence Award (2020). Was a Capes scholarship recipient during the doctoral program (2019-2023) and carried out a sandwich doctorate at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Capes-Print/2020-2021). Under the guidance of Professor Abel Barros Baptista, carried out a sandwich internship as a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH) developing the study plan Essay, another way of saying friend: Portuguese contribution to essay theories. She is the editor of the Alter (PUC-Rio/Brazil) and Dobra (IELT – NOVA FCSH) journals and coordinates, together with researcher Rita Basílio, the project On essay and essayism. As part of this project, since 2020, she has organized two international lecture series on the essay theme between Brazil and Portugal titled “Open Field – conversations about the Essay” and “Open Field: conversations about Essay and Art”. She is part of the FCT application teams for research projects: 1) LIBER ACT (2023.13060.PEX), proposed by Rita Basílio, and 2) Estranhar Lourenço (2023.12727.PEX), proposed by Pedro Sepúlveda. She is the author of articles published in Brazilian academic journals and book chapters, studying the relationship between thought and form in philosophy and literature, particularly regarding essay theories. She also served as a curator in the collective A MESA, which promoted exhibitions in its own gallery in Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, from 2015 to 2020. She is part of the Research Groups registered in CNPq: 1) Art, Autonomy, and Politics, coordinated by Professor Pedro Duarte and based at PUC-Rio; 2) The Eros of Critique, coordinated by Professor Patrick Pessoa and based at UFF; and 3) Poetry and Image, coordinated by Professor Patrícia Lavelle and based at PUC-Rio.

Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta, in Lisbon, where she was awarded her PhD in Portuguese Studies/Theory of Literature (on the narrative relationship between Literature and Film) and teaches Film Studies, Theory of Literature, Comparative Literature and Interart Studies. As Guest Professor she taught Portuguese Literature at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and Film Narratology at Universidade de Coimbra, and she has coordinated and taught several MA courses in São Paulo – Brasil (at USP, UNESP and PUC-SP). She coordinates the BA in Humanities and the MA in Comparative Literature at UAb. She is a senior member of CECC (Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura) at UCP, where she coordinates the Research Group in Literature, Cinema and Religion, and a collaborator of CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). She publishes mainly in the areas of Narrative Theory and Film Studies, especially on filmmakers such as Manoel de Oliveira, Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Dreyer and Robert Bresson.

Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature, Portuguese and French Studies (University of Porto), Master in Portuguese and French Comparative Literature (New University of Lisbon), PhD in Romance Literature and Culture (University of Porto) and professor of French Language, Cultures and Translation at ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School, since 1991. Continuing his research in Portuguese Poetry and Interarts as a member of IELT (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition) and CEI (Center for Intercultural Studies), he has published articles on the poetry of Luiza Neto Jorge and the painting of Paula Rego, among which Dezanove Recantos: The Apocalyptic Epic of the Feminine and The becoming-animal in Luiza Neto Jorge and Paula Rego: Woman Goat, Woman-Dog and other metamorphoses stand out. In 2017, she published A Transfiguração do Feminino na Poesia de Luiza Neto Jorge (Berlin: Saarbrüken – Novas Edições Académicas), her doctoral thesis.

Virgínia Boechat teaches Portuguese as a foreign language at AgroParisTech, Mines Paris – PSL and École Normale Supérieure, in France. She is a researcher in Literature, History of Art and Book History, with an emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She is pursuing her second PhD, in Medieval Studies, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Universidade Aberta. She carried out post-doctoral research funded by Capes at the Universidade de Aveiro, was a Temporary Professor of Literature at the Universidade Federal do Pampa, has a PhD in Literature from Universidade de São Paulo, a Master’s degree in Literature Studies from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.