Graça dos Santos

Vice-Reitora Cultura da Universidade Paris Nanterre onde é Professora Catedrática e dirige o CRILUS (Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur le monde lusophone) e coordena o Doutoramento o e o Master em Línguas, Literaturas e Civilizações românicas : Português; é investigadora associada no Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines (Université Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines) onde codirige desde 2001 com Jean-Claude Yon o Seminário de investigação « Histoire du spectacle vivant XIXe et XXIe siècles ». A sua investigação aborda em particular a ditadura salazarista e a censura. Encenadora, actriz e professora de teatro, escreve sobre as noções de corpo físico / corpo social, sobre as representações cénicas do corpo e do povo. Entre as suas publicações e atuais áreas de interesse destacam-se: a história do espetáculo europeu e o teatro português, os estudos culturais, os estudos pós-coloniais e os estudos sobre migrações. É autora no Dictionnaire encyclopédique du théâtre à travers le monde (Dir. Michel Corvin), Bordas, Paris 2008. Publicou Le spectacle dénaturé, le théâtre portugais sous le règne de Salazar 1933-1968 (CNRS éditions, Paris 2002 reeditado em Open edition em 2022 Le spectacle dénaturé – CNRS Éditions (openedition.org)) editado em português (2004) pela Editorial Caminho (O estectáculo desvirtuado. O teatro português sob o reinado de Salazar 1933-1968), e entre outros livros, Miguel Torga, le dialogue inassouvi, essai d’analyse de son œuvre dramatique (Peter Lang, 2018).
Cofundadora da companhia Cá e Lá-Compagnie bilingue français/portugais (40 anos de existência em 2023) tem desenvolvido um trabalho específico sobre o ator bilingue e sobre as conexões teatro e ensino das línguas. É diretora artística de Parfums de Lisbonne – Festival d’urbanités croisées entre Lisbonne et Paris cuja 19ª edição decorrerá entre junho e julho de 2026.

Betina Ruiz

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from the University of São Paulo, a Master’s degree from the University of Porto and a PhD from the University of São Paulo, and has always been dedicated to research in Portuguese- and Spanish-language literature. She has taught at both secondary and higher education levels, in both Brazil and Portugal. She has also worked for publishers and private clients, editing, preparing and critically reviewing manuscripts. She is the author of articles in academic journals and theoretical books on fiction (particularly poetry and music) and teaching.

Vitor Varella

Holds a Law degree from Centro Universitário do Rio Grande do Norte, with a postgraduate specialization in Public International and European Law from Universidade de Coimbra. In 2021, obtained a Master’s degree in Literary Theory and Lusophone Literatures from Universidade do Minho, with the dissertation Crime and Insanity in Fernando Pessoa’s Novelas Policiárias. He is one of the founders of the literary collective Sinestéticas and one of the editors of the literary journal Agagê 80. He is a collaborating member of the IELT and conducts research in the field of Comparative Literary Studies within the framework of the PhD Programme in Modern Literatures and Cultures (FCSH–NOVA), with a scholarship funded by the FCT.

Ariadne Nunes

Ariadne Nunes é membro do projecto PREC.Pt – Performance e Teatro no PREC (Centro de Estudos de Teatro da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa) e colaboradora do IELT – Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Colabora com a editora Almedina na publicação das obras completas de Augusto Abelaira. Os seus principais interesses de investigação centram-se em questões de edição e crítica textual, com experiência de edição de autores desde o período medieval até à época contemporânea. É co-editora de vários livros, designadamente Genetic Translation Studies: Conflict and Collaboration in Liminal Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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.