Andrea Ragusa

 

Andrea Ragusa (Turin, 1979) graduated from the University of Turin and received a PhD from the New University of Lisbon, in Portuguese Studies. He is currently a professor in the field of translation and linguistics studies at the University of Parma and a researcher at the IELT, within the scope of language and literature studies in the 19th century. He is co-director of the review Appunti leopardiani (Florianópolis) and member of the editorial board of Edizioni dell’Orso (Italy). He translated into Italian some works by Portuguese-speaking writers, including Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa and José de Almada Negreiros. [Scientific outputs]

Alda Correia

 

Assistant Professor with habilitation at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she has taught in the field of Comparative Literature and Literary Studies. Her areas of study include short fiction history and theory, narratology, comparative literature, regionalist literature and narrative medicine. She is a researcher of the Project in Medical Humanities of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. [Scientific outputs]

Golgona Anghel

Golgona Anghel is an Assistant Professor at the Portuguese Studies Department, of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and member of IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. She graduated (2003) Portuguese and Spanish Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa), where she later finished her PhD (2009) in Portuguese Contemporary Literature. She published some books of essays – Eis-me acordado muito tempo depois de mim, uma biografia de Al Berto (Quasi Edições, 2006), Cronos decide morrer, viva Aiôn, Leituras do tempo em Al Berto (Língua Morta, 2013), A forma custa caro. Exercícios inconformados (Documenta, 2018) – and she prepared a diplomatic Edition of the diaries of the Portuguese poet Al Berto (Diários, Assírio & Alvim, 2012). She also writes poetry: Vim porque me pagavam, (Mariposa Azual, 2011), Como uma flor de plástico na montra de um talho (Assírio & Alvim, 2013), Nadar na piscina dos pequenos (Assírio & Alvim, 2017). [Scientific outputs]

Teresa Araújo

Is a full professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and has taught on various courses at the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), Université de Lyon 2 and Universidade Agostinho Neto (Luanda), amongst others. Her research focuses on Portuguese literature from the 16th to the 18th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the early novel, theatre and Aesopian fables. Focusing on these fields, she has published studies in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and the United States. He has led five research projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, as well as coordinating the ongoing project RELIT-Rom. Literary Revisions: The creative application of Ancient Ballads (15th-18th centuries) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17910183

Sara de Almeida Leite

 

PhD in Portuguese Studies, having specialized in Portuguese Teaching (2015), M.A. in Anglo-Portuguese Studies (1998) and Diploma in Portuguese and English Modern Language and Literature (1994). Worked as substitute Professor of Portuguese Literature II at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1995/96) and has held several teaching and coordinating positions at Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, in Lisbon, from 1996 to the present. Also collaborates as a language consultant for “Ciberdúvidas”, is author of several articles and papers about good practice in language and literature teaching, as well as co-author of books about good usage of Portuguese language. [Scientific outputs]

Rita Basílio

Post-Doctorate in Literary Studies, by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PhD in Contemporary Portuguese Literature, and Master in Portuguese Studies, by the same University. Researcher at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (NOVA FCSH). She works in the domains of Literature and the Arts and their close relationship, namely in the field of research on literary and artistic education. She is the author of the books Manuel António Pina – Uma Pedagogia do Literário (Solar System – DOCUMENTA, 2017); Mário de Sá-Carneiro: Um Instante de Suspensão (Edições Vendaval, 2003). She coordinates the research project Por uma Pedagogia Criativa, on Manuel António Pina’s work for children. She also coordinates, within the scope of her research, two pedagogical projects: Motiv/Art (Art Citizenship), which aims to promote Literature and the Arts in the 1st cycle of Basic Education and (in the 2021-2022 biennium) the project Confi/Arte: re-creative workshops − Arts and Education for the Values of Global Citizenship in the 21st Century (with the support of DgArtes). She wrote three books for children: Missing Beauty (2007) (Hans Christian Andersen Literary Prize, from Figueira da Foz City), The Blue Pencil (2008); The Land of Wise Men (2021). She also wrote, in co-authorship with Gustavo Rubim, the theater play Assim também Eu (2010). She is the creator and editor of Revista Dobra Literatura Arte Design. She is also the author of several articles, published in specialized magazines, within the scope of contemporary Portuguese literature and the promotion of literary reading in close connection with an artistic education since childhood. [Scientific outputs]

Paula Cristina Costa

 

Paula Cristina Lopes da Costa is an Associate Professor at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa since 1988. From the same University she has a Degree on Romanic Languages and Literatures (1985), a Master also on Romanic Languages and Literatures (1990), and a PHD on Modern Portuguese Literature (2000). António Ramos Rosa, um poeta in fabula (Quasi Ed., 2005) and O Crepúsculo do Contemporâneo (Nova Vega, 2020) are some of her most important publications. [Scientific outputs]

Nicolás Asensio Jiménez

 

Nicolás Asensio Jiménez received his PhD in Spanish Literature by the Complutense University of Madrid (2020), with a thesis on the traditional ballads or romances related to the Battle of Roncesvalles. He currently works as assistant researcher at the IELT thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship from the European Commission. Together with Teresa Araújo, he develops the project The Golden Age of the Romancero: Echoes of Traditional Ballads in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature. [Scientific outputs]

Natália Maria Lopes Nunes

She has a degree in Portuguese and French Studies, a Master’s in Comparative Literature, a PhD in Medieval Literature and a post-doctorate in the area of Profane and Mystical Literature of the Gharb al-Andalus. Arabist, author of various articles and the books Formas do Sagrado e do Profano na Tradição Popular; A Virgem, os Santos e o Santo Lenho. Exorcismos e Milagres and co-author of Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Brotas – Religiosidade Popular no Alentejo. Her main areas of research are medieval and traditional literature, the feminine, Arab and Islamic literature and culture, and Christian and Islamic mysticism. At the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), she is a researcher at IELT (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition) and collaborator of IEM (Institute of Medieval Studies), where she has been teaching free courses in the field of Arabic and Islamic literature and heritage of al-Andalus and Islamic mysticism. At the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) she is a collaborator at the History Centre (CH). She is the creator of the Arabic Lisbon Route, which she regularly runs for the tourist company Lisboa Autêntica. [Scientific outputs]

Natália Constâncio

Natália Constâncio has an MA and a PhD in Portuguese Studies (Literature), with the thesis Subversão e Paródia na Obra de Mário de Carvalho (2012). She has several works on the cited writer, such as “Humanos, Animais e seus iguais: Epítome de uma morte anunciada, em Mário de Carvalho”, published in Falas da Terra no Séc. XXI (2011), Ruínas e Incertezas em Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, de Mário de Carvalho (2007) and Paixão, Aleivosia e Morte em O Conde Jano, by Mário de Carvalho (2004), among others. She is the author of the novels Romance de Dom Dinis. El-Rey que (Nom) Fez tudo Quanto Quis (2022) and O Homem que vivia dentro dos sonhos (2016). With the pseudonym Dulcineia, she signed the historical novel A súplica de D. Pedro (2014), the children’s book Inês, a Fada-Boneca – o roubo das Letras e das Cores do Arco-Íris (2015), and published poetry in anthologies. She collaborates on the projects LIT&TOUR (UAlg.), Ciclo da presença no Alto Alentejo, TRIPLOV Journal (CLEPUL), Writing Urban Places Working Group 3, and coordinates the project Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal together with The Historian Daniel Alves (IHC – NOVA FCSH), since 2018. [Scientific outputs]