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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”.

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

Graduated in Classical Studies (2008) and obtained her PhD in History (2018) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is an invited assistant professor at Universidade Aberta, within the framework of the PhD program in Global Studies. She is a full researcher at the The Institute for the Study of Traditional Literature and a collaborator at the Center for Global Studies at Universidade Aberta, where she coordinates the Thematic Line “Epistemologies and Methodological Approaches.” She has participated in numerous projects in the fields of Portuguese History and Culture, as well as in the organization of scientific meetings, with particular emphasis on the International Congress “Globalization with(out) Borders” (2022),

the International Congress “Human Rights: History, Present, and Utopia(s) in the Context of Globalization” (2023), and the International Congress “Globalogies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Globalization, Borders, and Heritage”. She is also responsible for the executive coordination of seminar cycles, notably the International Seminar on Global Studies, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her research has focused on the eighteenth century, on the study of the concept of the “Estrangeirado,” and on mechanisms of exclusion

of otherness from a historical perspective. She completed her PhD in Contemporary History in 2018 with a dissertation on “The Idea of the Foreigner in Portuguese Culture,” for which she received a Doctoral Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She also serves as na advisor to the Coordination of the PhD program in Global Studies (Universidade

Aberta) and as Editor-in-Chief of the journal e-Letras com Vida — Journal of Global Studies: Humanities, Sciences, and Arts.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Universidade Aberta and a specialist in Portuguese Literature and Narrative Studies, with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century authors. She holds a PhD in Portuguese-Language Literature from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, in co-tutorship with the University of Coimbra. She is the author of A cor dos cabelos de Deus: a oficina de escrita de José Saramago (FJS/CLP, 2023) and José Saramago et son atelier d’écriture (Honoré Champion, 2022), as well as co-author, with Carlos Reis, of O essencial sobre José Saramago (INCM, 2023), among other publications. She also served as project manager during the pilot phase of the Digital Joanina Project (BGUC).

Attended the University of Tübingen, the Portuguese Catholic University and Freie Universität Berlin. From 2005 until 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon. Since early 2013, he has been a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture of the Portuguese Catholic University. From 2015 until 2019, he was invited assistant professor at the Faculty for Theology at the Catholic University in Lisbon. Since 2019, he has been the coordinator for the Research Group “Religion, Globalization and Local Dynamics” at the Research Centre for Global Studies at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) in Lisbon. Currently, he is assistant professor for European Studies at the UAb. He has published or edited several books, special issues, book chapters and articles in international scientific journals. His research interest are religious history and secularization in Europe and European modernism. More recently, he published “Fernando Pessoa: Ein Maximum an Vielfalt im Minimum einer einzigen Person.” (Lettre International 141), “On the labyrinthine Reality of empty squares (or Nietzsche’s Stimmung in Turin).” (Electra 19), “Vom bleibenden Recht der Antike in der künstlerischen Moderne Europas: Fernando Pessoa und Giorgio de Chirico.” (Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 74/3).

Full Professor [Portuguese Studies] at Universidade Aberta [UAb] (Portugal). Aggregation in Portuguese Studies (UAb) [2019]; PhD in Portuguese Literature (UAb) [2002]; Master’s Degree in Literary Theory and Portuguese Literature (FLUC) [1993]. Teaches Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature and Literature and Interarts (with a special focus on Portuguese Modernism and Fernando Pessoa). Director of the Department of Humanities (UAb) (2022-2026). Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Visiting Professor at the University of Padua, Marie Curie University and University of São Paulo. Professor and Guest Lecturer at several European and American universities. Director of several literary collections. Scientific reviewer for several international journals. Member of the Organising and/or Scientific Committees of hundreds of scientific and cultural events. Director of the Coimbra Delegation of the UAb (1998-2006). Full member of the General Council of the UAb (2017-2021; 2021-2025; 2025-2029). Member of the Ethics Committee of the UAb (2023-). Member of the UAb Teaching Performance Action Council (2022-). Member of the Scientific Council of CIDH – FCT Infante Dom Henrique Chair (UAb). Member of the Scientific Council, Assembly and Senate of UAb (1998-2002; 2002-2006). Coordinator of the 3rd Cycle in Portuguese Studies (UAb) (2014/2016). Academic Coordinator of Erasmus+ (with the University of Padua and the University of Warsaw) [UAb]. Musical Studies (Porto Conservatory [Porto] and Dr. Azeredo Perdigão Conservatory [Viseu]). Artistic director of over 1,100 concerts, with over 350 musical works written and harmonised. Conductor Emeritus of the Mozart Choir. Various publications (scientific,educational, artistic, interartistic, cultural, and audiovisual).