Archives: Employees

 

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]

 

Fernando Clara teaches at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), where he also got his PhD in German Culture (2002) and his Habilitation in Cultural Studies (2010). Among his publications are the co-edited volumes The Anxiety of Influence: Politics, Culture and Science in Germany’s Relations with Southern Europe, 1933–1945 (in Portuguese, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2014), Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45: Science, Culture and Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2016), and Closing the Door on Globalization: Internationalism, Nationalism, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Routledge 2018). He was principal investigator of the research project The Power of Science. German Science in Portugal (1933-45), funded by the FCT. [Scientic outputs]

PhD in Portuguese Studies, Specialization in Literature Studies, from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, where she presented and defended her doctoral thesis (2016) Saramago: escrever, interromper. Narrativas breves de José Saramago – problemáticas de um lugar discursivo, prepared under the guidance of Professor Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. In 2010, she completed a Post-Graduate course in “Contemporary Portuguese Culture: times, facts and authors”, by the Camões Institute, and has a degree in Social Communication (1986), by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. Since 2018, she is an Advisor for the Museums area, at the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage, having developed several projects in this field between 2018 and 2020. She worked as Communications Director at the National Museum of Contemporary Art-Museu do Chiado, between March 2020 and September 2021, and is currently assigned to the State Contemporary Art Collection project. She began her career as a Senior Technician at Vila Franca de Xira City Council, where she took on the role of director in the areas of communication and culture for about 30 years (Head of Information Division and Director of the Department of Culture). In recent years her focus is on literature, arts and museology, more specifically, on the literature/art link. She has articles published in specialized magazines and has developed several installation and curatorship projects at the Museum of Neo-Realism.

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 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 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]

 

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]