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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.

Manuel Pedro Ferreira studied Music and Philosophy in Lisbon and earned his Ph.D from Princeton University, where he wrote a dissertation on Gregorian chant at Cluny. He is a Professor at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Department of Musicology, FCSH), where he also chairs, since 2005, the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM); he held a guest professorship at EPHE, Paris-Sorbonne (2004-2005) and was Visiting Research Fellow at IIAS, Jerusalem (2016). In 1995 he founded the early music ensemble Vozes Alfonsinas, with which he produces himself in concerts and recordings. He published a large number of papers, both on medieval music and on other topics, namely twentieth-century Portuguese music. His prize-winning book O som de Martin Codax (Lisbon, 1986) was followed by many others, either as author or editor, e.g. Cantus coronatus (Kassel, 2005), Medieval Sacred Chant: from Japan to Portugal (Lisbon, 2008), Aspectos da Música Medieval, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 2009-2010), Revisiting the Music of Medieval France (Farnham-Burlington, 2012), Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian connections (Kassel, 2016) and The Notation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Diplomatic Edition, 3 vols. (Lisbon, 2017). He has been additionally active as a music critic, a composer and a poet. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010) and Director-at-large of the International Musicological Society (since 2012). [Scientific outputs]

Lynda Chouiten is Professor of literature in the department of English of the University of Boumerdès (Algeria). Her PhD, awarded in 2013 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, was funded by the Irish Government under its PRTLI programme (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions). Chouiten’s research interests include colonial and postcolonial literature, travel writing, Orientalism, and women’s literature. She is the editor of Commanding Words: Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and the author of Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa: A Carnivalesque Mirage (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) as well as several academic articles. Chouiten is also a writer; so far, she has published two novels. Le Roman des Pôv’Cheveux (Algiers: El Kalima, 2017) was in the short list of two prestigious prizes – le Prix Mohammed Dib and L’Escale d’Alger – and Une Valse (Algiers: Casbah, 2019) won the Assia Djebar Prize (le Grand Prix Assia Djebar). Chouiten’s first short story collection was released in March 2022.

PhD in Literature Studies and Master in General Philosophy from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, is a writer, essayist and literary critic, member of the Union of Angolan Writers. He was a member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Writing of the IX volume of the General History of Africa. He is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Universidade Agostinho Neto. He participates in research teams of other institutions such as the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon.Among his more than ten published titles, his last two books stand out: Alumbu. The Endogenous Canon in the Angolan Literary Field. For a Cultural Hermeneutics, Luanda, Mayamba Editora, 2019; African philosophes. Essay on the Effectiveness of the Right to Philosophy (Essay), 1st edition, e-book, Sergipe, Ancestre Editora, 2021. [Scientific outputs]

 

Degree in Theatre, a Master Degree in Portuguese Studies and a PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts with the thesis Narração Oral: uma Arte Performativa. He also collaborates with the Arts and Communication Research Centre (University of Algarve). He is a storyteller since 2003, working in libraries, schools, associations,theatres and festivals in Portugal and abroad. [Scientific outputs]

 

Artistic director, researcher, teacher and founder of Olaria Projetos de Arte e Educação, based in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Since 1998, she has created and coordinated the Tocadores project, an initiative for the documentation and dissemination of popular musical traditions that recorded the practices of more than 160 artists in Brazil and Portugal. Curator and producer of projects that can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/liamarchi [Scientific outputs]

Laura Mateus Fonseca is an Invited Assistant Professor at ESCE – School of Business Sciences and ESE – School of Education at IPS – Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal for Portuguese and Textual Practices and teacher of the 2nd and 3rd cycles of Portuguese and English. Publisher, manager of editorial projects and researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, FCSH – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Consultant, Certified Trainer and E-Trainer in Professional Written Communication and Storytelling by the training company InPar. Develops and teaches Creative Writing workshop content and programs for schools, libraries, universities and museums. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the Classic University of Lisbon, also a postgraduate degree in Editorial Techniques from the same University and a Master’s in School Management and Administration from the ESCE and ESE – IPS. She is currently finishing his PhD in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Book History and Textual Criticism, at New University of Lisbon – FCSH. Owner and manager of the independent editorial project – Palavra Editora. Co-author of textbooks and author of specialized articles in her research areas. Recently (2019), published the book with its organization, introduction and notes Uma última pergunta – Entrevistas com Mário Cesariny. [Scientific outputs]