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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.

Gonçalo Cordeiro is maître de conferences at the University Paris Nanterre, where he is a member of the CRILUS and serves as the head of the Department of Portuguese. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, completed at the University of Lisbon, focused on religious discourse in 20th-century Portuguese poetry. His research interests include the transformations of classical and biblical memory, East/West exchanges in comparative criticism, and postcolonial writing in Portuguese-language literatures.

Diana Maia is Lecturer of Portuguese as a Foreign Language at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) since 2017, where she is responsible for planning and teaching curricular units related to Portuguese language and culture. She holds a master’s degree in Portuguese/Chinese Intercultural Studies: Translation, Training and Business Communication from Minho University (2016). She is currently a postgraduate student of Portuguese Studies with a specialization in Portuguese Literature at Universidade Aberta. Her research interests focus on the topics of Portuguese literature, intercultural studies, and teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language.

Rita Patrício teaches at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and has been a member of its Centre for Comparative Studies since 2019. She studies and teaches modern and contemporary Portuguese literature and literature theory. She is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa: um escrutínio das pretensões heteronímicas. She has published Episódios. Da teorização estética em Fernado Pessoa (2012) and Apontamentos. Pessoa, Nemésio, Drummond (2016); co-edited with Osvaldo M. Silvestre As Conferências do Cinquentenário da Teoria da Literatura de Vítor Aguiar e Silva (2020) and with C.I. Carmo, J.M. Frias, C. Pimentel and R. Nobre Presença e Memória. Homenagem a Paula Morão (2022). Her current research focuses on the study of self-representation and the projection of the author, mainly on Portuguese literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.