Cristiana Lucas Silva

Graduated in Classical Studies (2008) and obtained her PhD in History (2018) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is an invited assistant professor at Universidade Aberta, within the framework of the PhD program in Global Studies. She is a full researcher at the The Institute for the Study of Traditional Literature and a collaborator at the Center for Global Studies at Universidade Aberta, where she coordinates the Thematic Line “Epistemologies and Methodological Approaches.” She has participated in numerous projects in the fields of Portuguese History and Culture, as well as in the organization of scientific meetings, with particular emphasis on the International Congress “Globalization with(out) Borders” (2022),

the International Congress “Human Rights: History, Present, and Utopia(s) in the Context of Globalization” (2023), and the International Congress “Globalogies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Globalization, Borders, and Heritage”. She is also responsible for the executive coordination of seminar cycles, notably the International Seminar on Global Studies, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her research has focused on the eighteenth century, on the study of the concept of the “Estrangeirado,” and on mechanisms of exclusion

of otherness from a historical perspective. She completed her PhD in Contemporary History in 2018 with a dissertation on “The Idea of the Foreigner in Portuguese Culture,” for which she received a Doctoral Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She also serves as na advisor to the Coordination of the PhD program in Global Studies (Universidade

Aberta) and as Editor-in-Chief of the journal e-Letras com Vida — Journal of Global Studies: Humanities, Sciences, and Arts.

Sara Grünhagen

Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Universidade Aberta and a specialist in Portuguese Literature and Narrative Studies, with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century authors. She holds a PhD in Portuguese-Language Literature from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, in co-tutorship with the University of Coimbra. She is the author of A cor dos cabelos de Deus: a oficina de escrita de José Saramago (FJS/CLP, 2023) and José Saramago et son atelier d’écriture (Honoré Champion, 2022), as well as co-author, with Carlos Reis, of O essencial sobre José Saramago (INCM, 2023), among other publications. She also served as project manager during the pilot phase of the Digital Joanina Project (BGUC).

Steffen Dix

Attended the University of Tübingen, the Portuguese Catholic University and Freie Universität Berlin. From 2005 until 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon. Since early 2013, he has been a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture of the Portuguese Catholic University. From 2015 until 2019, he was invited assistant professor at the Faculty for Theology at the Catholic University in Lisbon. Since 2019, he has been the coordinator for the Research Group “Religion, Globalization and Local Dynamics” at the Research Centre for Global Studies at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) in Lisbon. Currently, he is assistant professor for European Studies at the UAb. He has published or edited several books, special issues, book chapters and articles in international scientific journals. His research interest are religious history and secularization in Europe and European modernism. More recently, he published “Fernando Pessoa: Ein Maximum an Vielfalt im Minimum einer einzigen Person.” (Lettre International 141), “On the labyrinthine Reality of empty squares (or Nietzsche’s Stimmung in Turin).” (Electra 19), “Vom bleibenden Recht der Antike in der künstlerischen Moderne Europas: Fernando Pessoa und Giorgio de Chirico.” (Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 74/3).

Dionísio Vila Maior

Full Professor [Portuguese Studies] at Universidade Aberta [UAb] (Portugal). Aggregation in Portuguese Studies (UAb) [2019]; PhD in Portuguese Literature (UAb) [2002]; Master’s Degree in Literary Theory and Portuguese Literature (FLUC) [1993]. Teaches Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature and Literature and Interarts (with a special focus on Portuguese Modernism and Fernando Pessoa). Director of the Department of Humanities (UAb) (2022-2026). Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Visiting Professor at the University of Padua, Marie Curie University and University of São Paulo. Professor and Guest Lecturer at several European and American universities. Director of several literary collections. Scientific reviewer for several international journals. Member of the Organising and/or Scientific Committees of hundreds of scientific and cultural events. Director of the Coimbra Delegation of the UAb (1998-2006). Full member of the General Council of the UAb (2017-2021; 2021-2025; 2025-2029). Member of the Ethics Committee of the UAb (2023-). Member of the UAb Teaching Performance Action Council (2022-). Member of the Scientific Council of CIDH – FCT Infante Dom Henrique Chair (UAb). Member of the Scientific Council, Assembly and Senate of UAb (1998-2002; 2002-2006). Coordinator of the 3rd Cycle in Portuguese Studies (UAb) (2014/2016). Academic Coordinator of Erasmus+ (with the University of Padua and the University of Warsaw) [UAb]. Musical Studies (Porto Conservatory [Porto] and Dr. Azeredo Perdigão Conservatory [Viseu]). Artistic director of over 1,100 concerts, with over 350 musical works written and harmonised. Conductor Emeritus of the Mozart Choir. Various publications (scientific,educational, artistic, interartistic, cultural, and audiovisual).

Ana Cristina Carvalho

Ana Cristina Carvalho was born is Lisbon in 1961 and lives near Sintra. She worked as an environmental engineer at Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests from 1986 to 2009. With a MsD and a PhD in Human Ecology, she was an invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH (Department of Sociology) from 2009 to 2018. She got a grant from Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology between 2019 and 2025, which lead her to develop the project “Representations of mainland Portugal’s Climate in XIX, XX and XI centuries Portuguese novels” at CICS.NOVA. Currently, she is also a IELT researcher, her main research interest still being Environment and Climate contents in fictional Portuguese Literature. Since 2020 she has been leading the book collection “Literature and the Environment”, which gathers authors from dozens of universities and research units in Portugal and abroad. She is an author of several scientific papers on Human Ecology and Ecocriticism, a peer reviewer for different journals, and bellongs to editorial/scientific boards of Lit&Tour – International Jorunal of Literature and Turism Research and C@striana online.

Nuno Samuel Calado de Oliveira

Nuno Samuel Calado de Oliveira was born and lives in Lisbon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures and master’s degrees in Portuguese Studies and Teaching English and German by NOVA FCSH. Currently, in addition to carrying out research activities, he works as a teacher in Secondary Education. He also has experience in the fields of translation and training.

Marco Alexandre Rebelo

Born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1976). He received a PhD and a master’s degree in Theory of Literature from the Nova University Lisbon, where he defended the theses Réplica, Ruptura, Recomeço: A Passagem de Pessoa no Espaço Literário (PhD) and O Espaço sem Volta: dos Pequenos Poemas em Prosa a Os Passos em Volta (MA), both under the supervision of Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. He graduated in Journalism from the University of Coimbra. He is the author of the books Nietzsche, Pessoa, Borges: por trás das máscaras (in)voluntárias do acaso (2004) and O espaço sem volta: do spleen de Baudelaire aos passos de Herberto Helder (2008). He wrote the entry “Rimbaud” in Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português, coordinated by Fernando Cabral Martins.

Margarida Luísa Coutinho Mendes

Teacher and pedagogical coordinator in basic education, she is a PhD student, at the Universidade Aberta, in Portuguese Studies – Portuguese Literature, studying the medieval imaginary in the Chronicle of the Order of Friars Minor. She holds a Master’s degree in Medieval History with the dissertation Barregãs e Bastardas Régias da Primeira Dinastia Portuguesa from NOVA FCSH and a degree in History, variant of Art History, from the School of Arts and Humanities (FLUL).

Ana Paula Ferreira

Ana Paula Ferreira has a PhD from New York University in Luso-Brazilian Studies. She is a Professor of Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. Aside from pursuing other research topics, namely the critical representation of the “real” in Lídia Jorge’s fiction, she has focused on the recuperation of women writers from the first phase of Salazar’s Estado Novo. In addition to numerous articles, she published the critical edition A Urgência de Contar: Contos de Mulheres dos Anos 40 (Caminho, 2002) and Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (Liverpool University Press, 2020). The latter traces the history of women’s agency as symbolic producers of Portuguese colonialism between the late nineteenth century and the second decade of the twentieth-first.

Sílvia Laureano Costa

Completed her Ph.D.’s degree in Portuguese Studies, with a thesis on the theatre of Almada Negreiros, at the NOVA University Lisbon. She is a researcher at Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, associated with the Modernismo Online project: Virtual Archive of the Orpheu Generation (www.modernismo.pt) and the Almada Negreiros and Sarah Affonso Study and Documentation Centre. She has curated exhibitions and published works on Almada Negreiros. She has taken part in a number of colloquia and conferences with papers on the life and work of Almada Negreiros and has published several essays on these topics.