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Retired professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she taught Twentieth-Century Portuguese Literature and Culture, Fernando Pessoa and Modernism Studies. Her research has focused on Fernando Pessoa’s estate, having published various editions and made many of his unpublished texts known. Another area of her research concerns the study of the concepts of tradition and modernity, and their relationship in modernist authors, trying to bridge the gap between modern and contemporary literature, and traditional literature. She has published some articles in this area. She also collaborates in the project Modern!smo: Virtual Archive of the Orpheu Generation. [Produção científica do investigador]

Luís Tarujo (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, School of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA University of Lisbon) is PhD in Roman Literatures (2013) and Master in Portuguese na Brazilian Studies (1999), by the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. In 1989, he took a degree in The Education of Portuguese and French in the Universidade de Aveiro. He has taught Portuguese and Portuguese Literature in Secondary Education and, as Guest Assistant in the Escola Superior de Educação Jean Piaget, the subjects of Língua e Literatura Portuguesa: Evolução e Didática da Língua Materna; Literatura Infanto-Juvenil e Expressão Poética; Evolução da Comunicação Linguística e Didática da Língua Materna. He has participated in various congresses, in Portugal and abroad, conveying speeches related to the topics Teatro de Cordel and Literatura Infanto-Juvenil. Teaches Literature at the Senior University Florbela Espanca (Matosinhos). He finished a Post-PhD, at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, about the works of José Saramago. [Scientific outputs]

He is retired from university teaching. He has a Ph in Oral Literature (University of the Algarve, 2003). Since 1980 he has been collecting and studying Portuguese oral literature, mainly ballads and legends. He is the author of circa 70 articles and coauthor of three books. He was the coordinator of Centro de Estudos Ataíde Oliveira. [Scientific outputs]

Auxiliar Professor at Universidade Aberta, where she teaches since 1989. She has published articles in various specialized journals, collective publications and proceedings, national and foreign, as well as two books on Iberian medieval historiography (Metamorfoses de Babel, of 2003 and La identidad de la historiografía of 2013). Her research lies within the framework of Compared Literature, Imagology and the Studies on the Imaginary, and her main areas of interest are Medieval Literature, 16th century Literature, Oral and Traditional Literature, and Textual Edition. [Scientific outputs]

Inês de Ornellas e Castro is an Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH and Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School. She as a PhD in Latin Language and Culture by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2007), where she sustained the thesis De la table des Dieux a la table des Hommes. La symbolique de l’alimentation dans l’antiquité romaine (Harmattan, 2011). She is a research at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition and collaborates with various International research networks. Although her main field of research has been cultural history of food and body in Antiquity and medical Neo Latin texts, she is also interested on paleography and textual criticism. Apart from books, she had published chapters and presented conferences on female writing subjects (Renaissance and Enlightenment) and Portuguese bromatology Latin texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She coordinates with Carmen Soares the international project DIAITA – Food Lusophone Heritage. [Scientific outputs]

Humberto Brito is Assistant Professor with tenure [“nomeação definitiva”] in the Portuguese Studies Department of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Currently on leave from NOVA, he is Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and in the Department of Comparative Literature, where he will continue his appointment as Visiting Associate Professor in 2024-2025. He is the author of five books. Avaria (ed. autor, 2019), Regras de Isolamento (FFMS, 2020), Estrada e Fantasmas (Lebop, 2020), A Interrupção dos Sonhos (Relógio D’Água, 2021), and A Luz e a Escrita (Relógio D’Água, 2023). [Scientific outputs]

Gustavo Rubim is Assistant Professor in the Portuguese Studies Department at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He is the author of the following essay books: Experiência da Alucinação: Camilo Pessanha e a Questão da Poesia (1993, winner of the Portuguese Pen Club Prize for Essay), Arte de Sublinhar (2003) e A Canção da Obra (2008). Also editor of Camilo Pessanha’s book of poems Clepsydra (2000). He regularly writes literary reviews for Público and he is a member of the editorial board of Românica, an academic journal published by the University of Lisbon. [Scientific outputs]