Bárbara Bergamaschi Novaes

Born in 1989 in Brasília, Brazil, she is an Italo-Brazilian academic, filmmaker, film programmer, and cultural critic. She holds a PhD in Literature, Culture, and Contemporaneity from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, 2022), with a thesis dissertation on the cinema of Peter Tscherkassky, funded by a CAPES-PROSUC merit-base scholarship. She was a CAPES-PrInt Visiting PhD Researcher at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal (EA-CITAR-UCP). As a film critic affiliated with ABRACCINE and FIPRESCI, she has contributed to O Estado de S. Paulo and Público, as well as to specialized outlets such as Revista Cinética, criticos.com, Doc-Online, JSTA, Interact, RCL, Aniki, [in]transition, and La Furia Umana. She was a tenured professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the Federal University of São João del-Rei (DEACE-UFSJ), Brazil. In 2022, she served as Special Advisor to the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the Government of the Federal District (SECEC/DF), Brasília, Brazil. Between 2023 and 2025, she worked as Scientific Communication Manager at ICNOVA – NOVA University Lisbon and as Guest Assistant Professor in the Department of Scientific Communication at DCC-NOVA-FCSH. She is currently a programmer for the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, an Academy Award®-qualifying festival. In 2026, she received the MSCA Seal of Excellence under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral European Fellowship programme.

Anabela Almeida

Holds a Ph.D. in Literature Studies from the Social and Humans Sciences College at Nova University in Lisbon, with a thesis titled “Orpheu’s constants on the work of Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues”. She is part of the Modernism pt (https://modernismo.pt/) at the same College and serves as vice-president of the European and Atlantic Culture Institute. Almeida has presented communications at scientific and cultural meetings and she has published books and articles on national and international journals related to her specialty. Additionally, she works as a high school teacher and in this field has been doing and promoting teachers training, as well as holding pedagogical coordination and supervision positions, guided professionalization internships for teaching and was a member of masters juries in teaching. She is trainer of elementary and secondary school teachers. Research areas and interests: Portuguese and Brazilian Modernism, Fernando Pessoa and his peers, Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues, Azorean literature and culture, Cape Verdean literature and culture, pedagogy and teaching portuguese native language, pedagogy and teaching french foreign language.

Barbara Gori

Barbara Gori is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari (DiSLL) at the University of Padua (Italy), where she teaches Portuguese Literature. She is translator of poetry and prose, including the sonnets of Antero de Quental (Antero de Quental e le memorie di una coscienza – poetica e stile dei Sonetos Completos, Genova: Liberodiscrivere, 2009), the complete prose works of Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Tutta la prosa. Principio, La confessione di Lúcio, Cielo in fuoco e altri scritti, Padova: Cleup, 2013) and the poetry of Ângelo de Lima (Poesie, Perugia: Urogallo, 2015) and Manuel Alegre (Sonetos/Sonetti, Napoli: Liguori, 2024). In 2025, he published the first critical edition, with Italian translation, of the correspondence between Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa (“Al compagno di giochi del mio genio”. Corrispondenza con Fernando Pessoa, Padova: Cleup, 2025). She is responsible for essays and books on Portuguese literature, in particular on the two Generations of Portuguese Modernity, that of 70 and that of Orpheu, which represent her main areas of interest (Mário de Sá-Carneiro e a impossibilidade de renunciar. Estudo sobre a prosa, Lisbon: Colibri, 2022). She has also published on African literature in Portuguese.

Mónica Ganhão

PhD in Portuguese and Romance Studies by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, having benefited from funding by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) for her thesis project titled “Women among men: gender dynamics in the 19th century Portuguese narrative”. Her interests are focused on Portuguese Studies and Women Studies, and she has specialised in Portuguese literature and female authorship. She is also an academic collaborator for the Centre for Classical Studies and for the Centre for Comparative Studies at FLUL, where she is continuing her research on 19th century female authors such as Guiomar Torresão. She is currently a Portuguese for Foreign Speakers teacher at ICLP (Portuguese Language and Culture Institute).

André Campos

Student of the Doctoral Degree in Portuguese Studies – Portuguese Literature and Culture, at Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal), with a project titled Juvenile Adaptations of «Travels of Mendes Pinto»: Narratives and Images, supervised by Professor Luís Carlos Pimenta Gonçalves. Holds a degree in Artistic Studies and a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies – Literature and Other Arts, with a dissertation titled Figuration and Afterlife of Ricardo Reis in José Saramago and João Botelho (2023), by the same University.  in colloquia dedicated mainly to Literary and Interart Studies. The most recent published article (in co-authorship with Prof. Luís C. P. Gonçalves) is entitled Les pérégrinations littéraires de João Botelho: de Fernando Pessoa à la Comtesse de Ségur (Allers et retours) (Carnets, 2nd series, 29, 2025 – https://doi.org/10.4000/1414v).

Bruno Garcia

 

PhD from the Social History of Culture program at PUC-Rio and master’s degree in European Studies from Masarykova Univerzita, in Brno, Czech Republic. His interests focus on subjects related to the intellectual history of the contemporary world, especially in the 20th century. He has dedicated himself to researching the essay genre and extremist speeches.

Cristiana Vasconcelos Rodrigues

Assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at the Open University Portugal (Universidade Aberta, UAb) since 1998,  teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in German studies, Portuguese literature and comparative studies. Born in Lisbon in 1968, she graduated from Universidade Nova de Lisboa with a degree in Modern Languages and Literature, specialising in English and German (1986-1990), and defended her master’s thesis in Comparative Literary Studies at the same university (1997). She obtained her PhD in Literary Studies – Comparative Literature at the Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities (2007). As a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp, FLUL) since 2009, she has been active in the following clusters: MORPHE – Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions and THELEME – Synesthesia. Her research interests in a broad sense focus on the intersections between literature and philosophy and between literature, performative arts and music. She is a founding member of the Espaço Llansol Association  (http://espacollansol.blogspot.com/), which hosts the literary estate of the Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol (1931-2008) and has been classifying and preserving it since 2008. In her teaching career at UAb, she has been involved in two projects led by an European consortium of distance education institutions related to computer-mediated international seminars (CEFES, 1998-2000; CEFES 2000), and also collaborated in the first research projects of UAb’s Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning (LEaD), between 2007 and 2009. She is currently active in the researching group El@n – Online Language Teaching, of the Humanities Department, which collaborates with LEaD.

Rosa Maria Sequeira

Holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Univ. de Lisboa), a master’s degree in Comparative Literature (Univ. Nova de Lisboa), and a doctorate in Literary Theory (UAb). In teaching and research, she has dedicated herself to Intercultural Communication, Literary Pedagogics, Comparative Studies, and Global Studies. She is the author of, among others, the following studies:

  • The image of the city in modern poetry: Cesário Verde and Fernando Pessoa
  • The teaching of literature to foreigners at the University
  • Desire and seduction. The intercultural circulation of Don Juanism
  • Communicating well: communicative practices and structures

Jeffrey Childs

Associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the Open University and co-coordinator of the research group “Literature, Art and Transculturality” at the Centre for Global Studies at the same institution. In 2016-2017, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His publications include a translation of the poetic work of the Portuguese symbolist poet Camilo Pessanha (Clepsydra – the Poetry of Camilo Pessanha [Lisbon Poets & Co., 2018]), a book on film noir (Espelhos do Film Noir [Documenta, 2019]) and, more recently, an essay on a Portuguese film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s short story “An Outpost of Progress”.

Filipe Alves Moreira

He is an assistant professor at Universidade Aberta (Portugal). He is, or has been, part of collective research project teams in Portugal and abroad (the United States of America, Spain, and Argentina), and is currently one of the directors of the project Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses (BITAGAP), which is part of the Philobiblon project (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). He has numerous publications in academic journals and books, as well as in other publishing venues aimed at different audiences. Among the latter, noteworthy are his participation in the project “Pioneering Works of Portuguese Culture” (Círculo de Leitores), for which he was responsible for one volume and collaborated in the preparation of several others, as well as the edition of a medieval Book of Lineages within the “Portugaliae Monumenta

Historica” series of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. He has been responsible for training activities and lectures on Medieval Literature in secondary education. He has also collaborated with other institutions, such as CTT, being the author of the text for the informational leaflet

accompanying the commemorative stamp issue marking the 600th anniversary of the Crónica de Portugal of 1419. His main area of research is Portuguese literature and historiography from the 13th to the 16th centuries, including their connections with Castilian literature and historiography of the same period and their reception in later eras, as well as the relationships between literature and historical memory. URL: https://univ-uab.academia.edu/FilipeAlvesMoreira