Clara Rowland

Clara Rowland is, since October 2016, Associate Professor at the Department of Portuguese Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Between 2003 and 2016 she was Assistant and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Lisbon, where she directed FCT International Doctoral Program in Comparative Studies and was responsible for the creation and first direction of a Master’s Degree in Brazilian Studies (FL-UL and ICS-UL). ). She is a researcher at the IELT at NOVA FCSH. She works in Brazilian Literature, Comparative Literature and Interart Studies. Between 2012 and 2016, she coordinated an FCT project entitled Falso Movimento– studies on writing and cinema, within which she edited, with José Bértolo, A Escrita do Cinema: Ensaios (Documenta, 2015) and, with Tom Conley, Falso Movimento: ensaios sobre escrita e cinema (Cotovia, 2016). Her publications in Brazilian Studies include essays on Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Bernardo Carvalho and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others. Her book A Forma do Meio. Livro e Narração na obra de João Guimarães Rosa was published in 2011 by Unicamp (Brazil). Between 2013 and 2015, she was a member of the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association of America. [Scientific Outputs]

Ana Nascimento Piedade

Ana Nascimento Piedade is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at Universidade Aberta. She joined the Scientific and Executive Committee of the “International Meeting: Eduardo Lourenço, 85 years”, that was organized by the Cultural National Centre and by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2008); she has also integrated the Scientific Committee of the International Portuguese-Brazilian Meeting “100 Orpheu” (2015). She has collaborated both in Dicionário de Eça de Queiroz and in Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. She has published the following books: A Questão Estética em Mário-de Sá-Carneiro (1994), Ironia e Socratismo em A Cidade e as Serras (“Essay Award Ernesto Guerra da Cal”, 2002), Fradiquismo e Modernidade no último Eça – 1888- 1900 (2003), Diálogos com Eça no Novo Milénio (Introduction and organization; 2004), Outra Margem – Estudos de Literatura e Cultura Portuguesas (2008), Em Diálogo com Eduardo Lourenço (2015). [Scientific outputs]

Ana Lavrador

 

Ana Luísa Lavrador da Silva has a Geography graduation and a master degree in Physical Geography, by the Letters University of Lisbon, and a doctorate in Arts and Techniques of the Landscape, by the Évora University (Portugal). Is a researcher at CICSNOVA and at IELT – NOVA FCSH, teacher in Basic and Secondary School of Lisbon and former in the Orlando Ribeiro Formation Center, Association of Geography Teachers. Author of scientific books and papers published by national and international editing and journals considering Cultural Geography, in particular perception and representation studies, involving landscape and its application in the development, qualification and promotion of the wine regions. [Scientific outputs]

Abel Barros Baptista

 

Professor at NOVA FCSH, working on the Portuguese Studies Department. He teaches maninly Brazilian Literature; others areas of interest: Literary Theory and the teaching of literature. He has published several studies on authors and topics pertaining Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, namely a number of books on the work of Camilo Castelo Branco and Machado de Assis. He is the head of the research group Literary tradition, texts, arts, theories. [Scientific outputs]

Márcia Seabra Neves

Márcia Liliana Seabra Neves has an undergraduate degree in Teaching Portuguese and French from the University of Aveiro. She finished her PhD in Culture, in December 2010, at the same University with a thesis entitled Da francofilia no imaginário presencista: da NRF à presença. Between 2012 and 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow and a member of the Institute for the Study of Literary and Tradition, at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Here she developed a research project under the theme Zooficções: figuras da animalidade nas narrativas portuguesa e brasileira contemporâneas (SFRH/BPD/80743/2011). Since February 2019, she has been a hired researcher at IELT / School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she also teaches Francophone Literature, 19th Century French Culture and Literature, in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Modern Literatures. Her current research focuses on the theme Zoofições e geopoéticas: cartografias da animalidade. She is also a collaborating member of the Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Aveiro. She has published several articles in the scope of cultural studies, comparative literature and the figuration of animality in the Portuguese narrative of the 20th and 21st centuries. [Scientific outputs]

Anabela Gonçalves

 

Degree in Modern Languages and Literature (Portuguese/Spanish) from Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Master’s in Management and Cultural Studies from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and Postgraduate in Storytelling at School of Communication and Media Studies. In 2020-2021, she completed the General Course in Cinema, from Cine-Reactor. Since 2005, she has been responsible for the executive and financial management of IELT.

Vicente Paulino

Vicente Paulino, born in Holsa-Maliana (Timor) on October 1, 1978. PhD in Culture and Communication (2012) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He holds a degree in Communication Sciences, specializing in Communication, Culture and Art, from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon. He has a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences/specialization in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies, from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon. Secretary of RENETIL for the district of Maliana – Timor-Leste (1999-2000); Founder and Editor of the “Kuda Ulun Lian Weekly Bulletin”, Maliana-Timor-Leste (1999-2001); Observer of the First Election for the Constituent Assembly of Timor-Leste (2001). Currently, he is a Professor at the National University of Timor-Leste. He was Director of the Center for Cultural and Arts Studies of the National University of Timor-Leste (CECA-UNTL). He was Director of the Knowledge Production and Dissemination Unit of the Postgraduate and Research Program at UNTL. He was a Professor in the Master’s Program in International Relations at the University of Peace (UNPAZ) in 2016-2017.

Isabel Barros Dias

 

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]

Luís de Sousa Martins

 

Doctorate in Social Anthropology at ISCTE with a thesis Inovação e Resistência – Um estudo sobre estratégias nas companhas de pesca (Póvoa de Varzim). Develops ethnographic research on fishing communities about the fishing technology impacts on natural resources and social relationships. Its main interest are cultural heritage in coastal communities, using methods and tools from ethnography and geography to the development of his research. [Scientific outputs]

Inês de Ornellas e Castro

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 Nova University Lisbon (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 coordinator 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 – Lusophony Food Heritage. [Scientific outputs]