Paula Frade

 

Paula Frade is a Phd student in Literary Studies, Languages, Literature and Cultures, and a researcher from the IELT, at NOVA FCSH. She has a Degree and Masters in Translation, from the same institution. Her main research focus is in the area of juvenile literature and fable. She correlated her activity as researcher, PhD student and translator, with a professional occupation as manager of a real estate investment company. She lived between Prague and Lisbon from 2006 to 2012. In her spare time she is an artist especially dedicated to acrylic painting, tile painting and pyroengraving.

Patrícia da Silva Cardoso

 

Patrícia da Silva Cardoso received her PhD in Theory and History of Literature from the State University of Campinas – Unicamp in 2002, presenting her thesis Inês de Castro ou a morta luminosa. Patrícia has been teaching Portuguese Literature at Federal University of Paraná since 1997. She was a visiting professor at Leipzig University in 2007. Since 2012, she has coordenated the bilateral masters course which happens at UFPR and University of Lyon 2-Lumière. She was the head of the Brazilian Association of Portuguese Literature Professors (ABRAPLIP) in 2016 and 2017. Since May 2022 she is the chair of Cátedra Camões José Saramago UFPR.

Natália Albino Pires

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

 

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.

Marta Paixão

 

In 2007 I joined NOVA FCSH where I graduated in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Portuguese-German). During that time at the invitation of the italian and german teachers of the university, I attended an italian language and culture course in Perugia, and I also participated for two consecutive years in an exchange program with students from all over Europe which took place in Hannover. In 2013 I concluded the Master in Portuguese Studies and three years later I started the Phd in Portuguese Literature.

Mário Paulo Costa Martins

 

Doutorando em Didáctica das Línguas – Multilinguismo e Educação para a Cidadania Global (NOVA FCSH). Licenciatura em Português, Latim e Grego. Mestrado em Estudos Clássicos. Membro do IELT – NOVA FCSH. Professor Cooperante na NOVA FCSH e FLUC. Interesses de investigação: Didáctica do Português e das Línguas Clássicas, Poesia Épica e Heróica, Autores e de Temas Clássicos na Literatura, Etimologia, Terminologia, Thesaurus e Estudos Culturais.

Maria Teresa Perdigão

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 Schtine Viana

Maria Schtine Viana is a PhD student at the Department of Portuguese Studies of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is also a member of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT). She was a research assistant at Centre for the Humanities (CHAM ). She is a doctoral grant from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Institute of Brazilian Studies at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), in the program Brazilian Cultures and Identities (2013). She has a Bachelor of Arts’ Degree in French and Portuguese Languages and Literatures (2004), awarded by the Department of Modern Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo. She has been a visiting researcher at the Département des Sciences du Langage of the Université de Rouen, France (1998). She took courses and workshops in performing arts at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, and has acted as an actress and playwright in several theater companies in São Paulo. She worked for two decades as an editor at several publishing houses in São Paulo. She is the author of textbooks and books aimed at the training of teachers, as well as children’s books and youth literature. Through her research work she has been exploring the following themes: Brazilian literature, Portuguese literature, French literature, book publishing history and the social history of children’s books. [Scientific outputs]

Maria Joana Melo

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.

Maria Isabel Machado Lemos

Maria Isabel Lemos is an anthropologist and focuses her research on the policies and displays of culture within the scope of Oral Traditions, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Literature. Contributor to the Working Group “Narrative Cultures” (SIEF) and PhD candidate in the “Anthropology: Policies and Displays of Culture and Museology” (ISCTE-IUL) program, she is currently developing a research project on traditional Cape Verdean narratives and their circulation in different social contexts, as well as their categorization as intangible cultural heritage. Master in Visual Cultures (NOVA FCSH) and Bachelor in International Relations (IBMEC/RJ), has developed different projects in partnership with the Cape Verde Cultural Heritage Institute (IPC-CV) and several museums.