Gonçalo Cordeiro

Gonçalo Cordeiro is maître de conferences at the University Paris Nanterre, where he is a member of the CRILUS and serves as the head of the Department of Portuguese. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, completed at the University of Lisbon, focused on religious discourse in 20th-century Portuguese poetry. His research interests include the transformations of classical and biblical memory, East/West exchanges in comparative criticism, and postcolonial writing in Portuguese-language literatures.

Fernanda Luísa Gaspar Pinto

Fernanda Luísa Gaspar Marques Pinto has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, with a minor in Portuguese and French Studies, a masters in History of the Portuguese Empire and is currently attending the non-teaching component (thesis preparation) of her PhD in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Literature Studies, with her thesis: As Traduções Francesas da História do Descobrimento e Conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses, de Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, no século XVI. In the professional training sphere, she has attended numerous courses in the fields of IT, book advertising and reading promotion, literature, writing and pedagogy. Throughout her professional career, she has taught and trained in Portuguese, Portuguese as a Foreign Language and French at various vocational schools, vocational training centers and university. She has also reviewed foreign fiction in the magazine Os Meus Livros and researcheds in the Modern History and currently 16th century literatury fields the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Since 1997 she has worked for the Directorate – General for Books, Archives and Libraries – Ministry of Culture, where she has developed projects to promote books and reading in prisons and libraries. She is currently teaching A1 level Portuguese as a Reception Language at Cencal – Centro de Formação Profissional para a Indústria Cerâmica in Caldas da Rainha and Portuguese as a Foreign Language at Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais – Instituto Politécnico in Leiria.

Diana Maia

Diana Maia is Lecturer of Portuguese as a Foreign Language at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) since 2017, where she is responsible for planning and teaching curricular units related to Portuguese language and culture. She holds a master’s degree in Portuguese/Chinese Intercultural Studies: Translation, Training and Business Communication from Minho University (2016). She is currently a postgraduate student of Portuguese Studies with a specialization in Portuguese Literature at Universidade Aberta. Her research interests focus on the topics of Portuguese literature, intercultural studies, and teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language.

Rita Patrício

Rita Patrício teaches at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and has been a member of its Centre for Comparative Studies since 2019. She studies and teaches modern and contemporary Portuguese literature and literature theory. She is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa: um escrutínio das pretensões heteronímicas. She has published Episódios. Da teorização estética em Fernado Pessoa (2012) and Apontamentos. Pessoa, Nemésio, Drummond (2016); co-edited with Osvaldo M. Silvestre As Conferências do Cinquentenário da Teoria da Literatura de Vítor Aguiar e Silva (2020) and with C.I. Carmo, J.M. Frias, C. Pimentel and R. Nobre Presença e Memória. Homenagem a Paula Morão (2022). Her current research focuses on the study of self-representation and the projection of the author, mainly on Portuguese literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ana Luísa Martins

PhD student at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, specializing in Comparative Studies. Holds a master’s degree from the same institution with the dissertation The word won by silence – Pilgrim dialogues between Herberto Helder and Paul Celan. Currently, developing a research project on literature and war focused on the works from António Lobo Antunes, Yannis Ritsos and Kateryna Kalykto.

Teresa Margarida Gonçalves Castro

PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, having specialized in Comparative Romance Literatures by Universidade Nova de Lisboa de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (2010), Master’s degree in Portuguese and French Comparative Literatures(1999) and Diploma in Portuguese and French Modern Language and Literature (1995) by the same University. Work as Secondary school teacher from 1994 to the present and is author of some articles and papers about Literature and Traditional Literature. Member of IELT as a researcher collaborator in some projects.

Ana Memeteau

Ph.D. candidate in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA FCSH. Ana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, specializing in French and English Studies. She attended the 1st and 2nd years of the Painting course at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She was awarded the NOVA Young Talent Award for best undergraduate student in the Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures programme in 2021 and the 1st Prize in French language translation by the Faculty of Humanities, Catholic University, in 2016. Ana occasionally collaborates on artistic curation projects.

Roberto Navega-Costa

BA in Philosophy from the University of Southern Santa Catarina (2018); Special Master’s Student in the Postgraduate Program in Society, Culture and Borders at Unioeste – Foz do Iguaçu. Master’s degree from the Postgraduate Program in Society, Culture and Borders at Unioeste – Foz do Iguaçu. Defended his dissertation in 2021. Capes scholarship holder between 2019 and 2021, during his master’s degree. Postgraduate, Latu Sensu, in Anthropology in 2021; in History in 2021; and in Archaeology and Heritage in 2021. Psychoanalyst trained at the IBPC in 2021. PhD student in Medieval Studies, since 2021, at the Universidade Aberta and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), under the supervision of Professor Isabel Maria de Barros Dias and Professor Maria João Branco. Researching the thesis Estudo Imagológico do Medievalismo brasileiro do século XIX. Member of the research group of the CLAEC – Centro Latino-Americano de Estudos em Cultura as an Associate Researcher. Member of the Instituto Estudos Medievais (NOVA FCSH).

Teresa Sousa de Almeida

Teresa Sousa de Almeida is a researcher at IELT and a retired Associate Professor from NOVA FCSH, where she taught French Literature, Portuguese Literature and Feminist Theory. She headed four projects on women writers, financed by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese FCT. Between 2014 and 2017, she was responsible for coordinating the Mundus Master’s, Crossways in Cultural Narratives, financed by the European Union, along with Ana Morais and Ana Matos. She has written on contemporary Portuguese Literature, concerning Mário de Carvalho, Nuno Júdice, Maria Teresa Horta and Natália Nunes. [Scientific outputs]

Andreia Almeida

 

Andreia Almeida is a master student in Portuguese Studies at NOVA FCSH and has conclude her degree in the same department and institution. She also has a degree and master in Psychology at ISPA – Instituto Universitário. She is working in the project  “Portuguese women writers during Military Dictatorship and Estado Novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration”, that involves IELT, CICS.NOVA/Faces de Eva (NOVA FCSH), and CRILUS/UR, University of Paris Nanterre.