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I was born in Lisbon 12.19.1970, I finished my degree in Portuguese Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Lisbon in 1994 and the professional stage in 1996. I taught in primary and secondary school between 1996 and 1998. Between 1998 and 2000 was as Camões Institute reader at the University of A Coruña where, in 2007, I presented my PhD thesis entitled The Oral Tradition Modern Romanceiro Lexicon edited between 1828 and 1960. I am a professor of the Scientific and Disciplinary Group of Humanities at School of Education of Coimbra since 2000 and I have been developing research and I have been publishing works on the language specificities of the ballads of Portuguese modern oral tradition; about the importance of legends for the construction of the collective imaginary; on cultural tourism proposals based on legendary collection or in the presence of historical personalities in various locations in the West Region; about the possible new uses of traditional literature in the classroom context in Basic Education and in therapy sessions for people with cognitive impairment and on the neurolinguistic mechanisms related to the memorization and recitation of the traditional text. [Scientific outputs]

 

Mirhiane Mendes de Abreu is Brazilian Literature Professor at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp). She has developed research which focuses on Ronald de Carvalho, and which includes the construct of his personal collection. In addition, she has developed a project along with several institutions in order to develop an intellectual profile of Ronald de Carvalho from his own correspondences.

Teresa Perdigão (b. 1951) is an anthropologist researching on popular religion, situated know-how’s and its relations to local culture in the Portuguese territory. Among her subjects of research is Santa da Ladeira do Pinheiro (Torres Novas, Portugal). She undertook an intense study of religious celebrations in Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, in particular about Popular Theatre and Auto of Florípes, held in Neves (Castelo Branco) and Príncipe Island. Teresa also researches on textiles and women’s labor in Peniche and Santo Amaro (Pico, Azores). More recently her field of interests includes food habits related to religious celebrations in Continental Portugal and Islands. She published books and papers on the aforementioned fields of research. Additionally, she also directed and produced the documentary film Nas Termas da Rainha; and co-directed O Auto de Florípes na Ilha do Príncipe and Pico – A Ilha da Montanha. Her forthcoming books are Monografia do Concelho de Óbidos and Doçaria Açoriana (certified desserts). [Scientific outputs]

Maria Joana Reis Paiva Nunes de Melo, holds a Ph.D in Literary Science from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa since 2011. Her doctoral thesis Desígnio Inteligente – Actualização da Poética de Aristóteles como Teoria do Método e Funcionalidade Específicos de uma Arte Audiovisual de Larga Difusão, (sponsored by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and advised by Professor Abel Barros Baptista, NOVA FCSH), establishes an in-depth connection between Greek Tragedy and American Film, pointing out the tragic structure, as described by Aristotle, as an everlasting prototype for commercial audiovisual fiction. Her current postdoctoral research at the IELT (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition) focuses on oracular speeches in Greek tragedy and its aesthetic equivalence in cinematography. She has published “Um Trágico Final Feliz” in the Universidade de Coimbra’s review Materialidades da Literatura, vol. 2; and «O alogon de Aristoteles e o drama de Billy Wilder», Metakinema.

 

PhD in Compared Literature (2008) and Adjunct Professor of ISCAP/Polytechnic Institute of Porto, where she lectures technical and literary translation (German/English-Portuguese). Her research line has particularly been pointing out to the subject of Self-translation and Double Endowment in writing and painting, as well as the conjunction of theory and artistic creation. She has published several essays and chapters in national and international reviews and books, focusing on an intermedial approach of Identity on European Modernism studied as an embryo of new possibilities in a perceptual repertoire of textual and environmental exegesis, i.e from a transindividual and chinestetic point of view, in interface with global semiotics. [Scientific outputs]

PhD in Compared Literature (2008) and Adjunct Professor at ISCAP/ Porto Polytechnic, where she lectures German Language for specific purposes, Intersemiotic Translation (German-Portuguese), as well as Culture in German Speaking Countries. She is reasearcher at CEI (Centre for Intercultural Studies – ISCAP/IELT and an integrated member of the research unit ILCML (Compared Literature Institute Margarida Losa / Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto), where she works with the Group of Intermedialities. Her research line and publications have particularly been pointing out to the subject of Self-translation (S. Beckett) and Double Endowment in writing and painting (Wyndham Lewis, Else Lasker-Schüler, Almada Negreiros), as well as to the conjunction of theory and artistic creation (E. Pound, W. Kandinsky, I. Witkiewicz). European Modernism (i.e. Vorticism and Expressionism) has been studied as an embryo of new possibilities in a perceptual repertoire of textual and environmental exegesis.