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.
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 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 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 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.
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]
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]
PhD student in Portuguese Studies at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is a Portuguese teacher at Instituto Federal da Bahia (Brazil) and a researcher at Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação (CIAC – UAlg) and at Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH). Her areas of interest are literature, culture and tourism.
Bachelor’s Degree and Professorship, Philosophy, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986; Master, Andean History, FLACSO/Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1995; PhD, Social Anthropology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, 1999. Publications: Antígona: hija, hermana, mujer. Tragedia y contemporaneidad (2003); Indios muertos, negros invisibles. Identidad, hegemonía y añoranza (2008); Nadie sabe con qué pie / se desmarcará otra vez. Semiopraxis, discurso de los cuerpos y relaciones interculturales poscoloniales (2012); Del Socioanálisis a la Semiopraxis de la Gestión Social del Conocimiento. Contra-narrativas en la telaraña global (2012); Danza de los cuerpos y semiopraxis (2014); Semiopraxis barroca popular (2014); Añoranza, olvido, semiopraxis: la esperanza de los vencidos (2014); Más acá del Estado-Nación: Semiopraxis territoriales en pugna (2014); Hospitalidad excesiva. Semiopraxis crítica y justicia poscolonial (2014); En otras lenguas. Semiopraxis popular-intercultural-poscolonial como praxis crítica (2017). [Scientific outputs]