Associate Professor of the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém. Head of the Department of Languages and Literatures. Teaching areas: Literature (Literary Theory; Modern & Contemporary Portuguese Literature) and Literary Education (Children’s Literature; Didactics of Language Development in nursery and kindergarten). Publishes in the area of gender and education. PhD candidate in Comparative Literature.
Ana Sirgado is a team member of the project RELIT-Rom “Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries)”. She completed her PhD in Traditional and Oral Literature at NOVA University of Lisbon in 2017. She was also a Guest Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH where she teached Portuguese Renaissance Literature for undergraduate programmes (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-24). Her research interests include Portuguese Literature of the 16th century and traditional literature, focusing mostly on the pan-Hispanic ballad and on its relationship with canonical works of literature. She is the co-author of Romances Tradicionais do Distrito de Bragança (IELT, 2019), along with J. J. Dias Marques, and author, amongst other publications, of “As jovens aventuras de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar: reavaliação de um testemunho do romanceiro novo” (RCIM, 2022) and of “Romances e provérbios na literatura portuguesa quinhentista: o caso de «erros por amores»” (BLO, 2022). [Scientific outputs]
Ana Sofia David has a degree in Classical Philology (Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas) and postgraduate studies in Education in the same area at the Faculdade de Letras – Universidade de Lisboa. She has a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies (Literaturas e Poéticas Comparadas) at the Universidade de Évora, with a dissertation about children’s literature and video games. Currently, she is a PhD student in Portuguese Studies (Estudos Portugueses) at NOVA FCSH, studying the poetic places of Daniel Faria.
Cristina Carneiro de Menezes is a PhD student in Gender Studies with the doctoral thesis project entitled Escrita sócio-memorialística feminista: o impacto e os sentidos da narrativa de Annie Ernaux no Brasil e em Portugal. She holds a master’s degree in Women’s Studies by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 2020, with the dissertation en-tited Escrita feminina e narrativa na construção da subjetividade e da identidade da personagem Lenù na tetralogia napolitana de Elena Ferrante. Also has a career as journalist since 2005.
Marta Carmezim Gonçalves is a Portuguese Studies PhD student at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. After concluding the Master’s in Heritage, focuses on the scientific fields of Intangible Heritage, Ethnography and Literary Studies, having published several articles in scientific magazines such as Memoriamedia Review (2021) and Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnografia (2021). Currently, focuses on Sacred and Historical portuguese legends about religious buildings and sites.
Marta Braga holds a PhD in Languages, Literatures and Cultures at School of Social Sciences from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, with the thesis entitled Subsídios para um conceito de crueldade na literatura: Diálogos plurívocos entre textos modernistas franceses e portugueses (2021). During 2016 and 2020, she was lecturer of Portuguese and French Studies at the University of Santa Barbara, California ( UCSB). In the last few years, she has been publishing articles in index journals at United States of America and in Portugal. [Scientific outputs]
Vicenç Beltran was a full professor at the Universities of Cádiz, Barcelona and Sapienza in Rome. He is a specialist in textual criticism and other literary research techniques. For several years, he was president of the Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval and is a member of the Junta Directiva da Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, honorary president of the Asociación Convivio and a member of the Institut d’ Estudis Catalans. He provides scientific advice to numerous journals, editorial collections and various research support and funding entities.
Lucília Chacoto is a professor in the University of Algarve (Portugal) and has a PhD in Linguistics (2005) with the dissertation O Verbo Fazer em Construções Nominais Predicativas. Researcher at IELT (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) since 2018. Her main research areas are Syntax, Phraseology, Paremiology, Translation. Chacoto is a reviewer of Entrepalavras (since 2011); Revista Galega de Filoloxía (since 2020); Paremia (since 2009); editor of Board of Estudos de Literatura Oral (since 2006); and collaborates with several other scientific reviews. She participates in several scientific committee of International Scientific Conferences and Workshops. Since 2001, she has a Certificate of Registo de Formador, both in Portuguese and in Linguistics, by Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua. [Scientific outputs]
With a degree in Portuguese Language and Culture and a postgraduate degree in Textual Criticism from the Faculty of Arts of University of Lisbon, she is currently a PhD candidate in Portuguese Studies (Literature Studies) at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, focusing on her thesis in the work of Maria Velho da Costa. Within the scope of her research area, she has published articles, book chapters and participations in international conferences. She teaches Culture and Portuguese Language courses at ICLP (University of Lisbon) and participates in research projects at UNESP and UNICAMP (Brazil). She also collaborates in different inclusive art projects.
Associate Professor of Portuguese Language, and Lusophone Literature and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States, where she also serves as coordinator of the Portuguese program. Her research interests are divided between Portuguese contemporary poetry, travel literature, and women’s island literature in a comparative perspective in Portuguese, French and English language, focusing on Geopoetics and Ecocriticism theories. The editing and coordination of the volume Ilhas de vozes em reencontros compartilhados published in 2021, was her most recent book publication.