Silvina Rodrigues Lopes

Silvina Rodrigues Lopes is a retired professor of Literature Theory at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She obtained her aggregation degree in 1996 at NOVA University of Lisbon. She is the author of several books, including: Tão Simples como Isso; E se-pára; Sobretudo as Vozes Inconjuntos; A Legitimação em Literatura; Aprendizagem do Incerto; Teoria da Despossessão; A Alegria da Comunicação; Agustina Bessa-Luís. As Hipóteses do Romance; Literatura Defesa do Atrito; A Anomalia Poética; Exercícios de aproximação; A inocência do Devir; O Nascer do Mundo nas suas Passagens. She was a researcher at IHA – Art History Institute and CEIL – Centre for Studies on the Literary Imaginary. She is currently a researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. She coordinated the Dobra journal. [Scientific outputs]

José Manuel da Costa Esteves

José Manuel da Costa Esteves teaches at the Université Paris Nanterre, where he has been coordinating the Lindley Cintra Chair of the Camões – I.P, since 2002. Additionally, he serves as deputy head of the research center CRILUS (Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires du monde lusophone, UR Etudes Romanes). He completed his studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He is a member of the Portuguese Association of Literary Critics, the editorial board of the journals Colóquio-Letras, Faces de Eva, Convergência Lusíada, Cahiers du Crepal, and has published extensively in the areas of language teaching, language and cultural policies, and modern and contemporary Portuguese literature. Some of his words include: La Littérature Portugaise contemporaine, Paris, 2008; Maria Judite de Carvalho: une écriture en liberté surveillée (with Maria Graciete Besse and Adelaide Cristóvão), Paris, 2012; Escritoras portuguesas no tempo da Ditadura Militar e do Estado Novo (with Teresa Almeida e Isabel Henriques de Jesus), Brussels, Peter Lang – a book that is part of the project “Escritoras portuguesas no tempo da Ditadura Militar e do Estado Novo em Portugal, África, Ásia e Países de Emigração,” of which he is a team member.

Rui Zink

 

Rui Zink is a writer and teacher in the department of Portuguese Studies, and is responsible for the disciplines in Edition Theory and Publishing and Editing at graduate level. His body of work – about 30 books comprising fiction and essay – has been translated into 15 languages. In 2009 he was Hélio and Amélia Pedroso Endowed Chair and Writer in Residence at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has been also been part of the Portuguese Summer School at the Middlebury College, Vermont. [Scientific outputs]

Palmira Morais Rocha de Almeida

 

Palmira Morais Rocha de Almeida was born and lives in Lisbon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Romance Philology and a post-graduation in Brazilian and Portuguese-speaking African Literatures from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She completed a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Compared Romance Literatures) at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. A retired university lecturer, she currently devotes herself to research work. [Research outputs]

Manuele Masini

Master’s degree in Romance Philology (University of Pisa, Italy) and Ph.D. degree in Portuguese studies and textual criticism (NOVA FCSH). His interests regard most the Iberian literature in all its geographic\linguistic projections. He has obtained lots of scholarships and supports from several institutions in Portugal, Spain, France and Brazil and he develops research and study projects concerning poetry and translations. He has written monographs and papers, and he has translated, in reviews and books, authors and poets from France, Portugal, Spain, Galicia, Catalonia, Brazil, Argentina and Aragon. Co-director of the Lusitanian-Italian review Submarino, of TeXtus editions – Pisa, Italy – and of the poetry collection alleoPoesia. His research guidelines are: relationship between Medieval and contemporary poetry, the Lusitanian-Galician relationships, the Iberian contemporary poetry, the relationships between cinema and poetry, the textual criticism, the study of poetic elements in contemporary prose. The poetics of translation and the production of digital editions. [Scientific outputs]

Inês Thomas Almeida

Born in the Dominican Republic, Inês Thomas Almeida holds a PhD in Historical Music Sciences from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and is a researcher at INET-md/NOVA FCSH. She was awarded a scholarship by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, and for her doctoral thesis O olhar alemão: A prática musical em Portugal em finais do Antigo Regime segundo fontes alemãs, under the supervision of Rui Vieira Nery, she was given the highest classification unanimously. She received a Merit Scholarship from the University of Évora in 2001 and 2002, awarded to the best student in each course. She lived in Germany from 2003 to 2016, where she created an NGO to support the Portuguese community in Berlin. In this context, she was responsible for numerous cultural, social and humanitarian initiatives and received several awards and distinctions for services to the community. Her main research interests are music in the 18th century, travel literature, women and music, proto-feminism, transnational cultural networks, as well as links between Germany, Austria and Portugal in the 18th century. Inês Thomas Almeida has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals on foreign travellers in Portugal, musical practices at the end of the Ancien Regime, the Sephardic salonnière Henriette Herz, the Duke of Lafões, and other topics related to 18th century and travelogue research. She was a lecturer at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra and regularly teaches free courses at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She continues an intense activity as a lecturer, both in national and international symposiums in her scientific area, as well as in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and at the National Theatre of São Carlos. She is also dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge to non-specialized audiences, which is reflected, for example, in the webinars she created on Musical Culture and Women Composers. [Scientific outputs]

Graça Lérias Pacheco

 

Degree in classical and Portuguese studies, Master of classical and medieval Portuguese literature, by the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon. PhD in literary Portuguese studies, by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon. Exerts activity as a high school teacher, in Portugal, and has developed studies on popularized Portuguese literature of the nineteenth-century and, more recently, on Portuguese literary and cultural circuits between the Seventeenth and the Nineteenth centuries.

Carlos Clamote Carreto

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon where he is currently Vice-Dean for Planning and Quality Management and Scientific Vice-coordinator of IELT. Vice-Dean for Planning and Quality and President of the Pedagogical Council. Besides being researcher and scientific sub-director of IELT, he is also a collaborating member of the Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) and of GRIS-France. His main teaching and research fields focus on French Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Medieval Studies and Studies on the Imaginary. He is a founding member and permanent member of the editorial board of the interdisciplinary Luso-French journal Sigila, and belongs to the the scientific board of several journals linked to literary and inter-art studies. His publications have focused mainly on the dynamic relations between Tradition, Myth and Literature with special attention to medieval narrative. [Scientific Outputs]

Carla Guerreiro

Carla do Espírito Santo Guerreiro has degree in Portuguese-English (Teaching of), a Master’s degree in Theory of Literature, with the thesis: A Mundividência Infantil na Obra de Guerra Junqueiro and a PhD in Portuguese Literature/Literature for Childhood, with the dissertation: A Literatura para a Infância nos séculos XIX e XX – contextos sociais e contributos pedagógicos. All scientific degrees were awarded to her by the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. She has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Portuguese at Escola Superior de Educação – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, since 2002. She has been responsible, since 2000, when she took up her duties in Higher Education, for the coordination of various projects to promote books and reading with children and young people belonging to school groups in the municipality of Bragança. She is member of the Board of Directors of the Academia de Letras de Trás-os-Montes and the author of: A mundividência infantil na obra de Guerra Junqueiro, Memórias da casa grande  and co-author of the works Terra d’encontros, Vozes transmontanas, Rostos de terra, Gentes e lugares-contos e contas and Literatura de Natal.

Aurízia Anica

 

PhD in Anthropology from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Coordinating Professor at the University of Algarve, where she directs the Department of Social Sciences and Education (ESEC) and the Masters degrees in Social Gerontology and in Management and School Administration. She co-edited the ebook Envelhecimento e Educação (2014) and she is the author of the books entitled As Mulheres, a Violência e a Justiça no Algarve de Oitocentos (2005) and A Transformação da Violência no Século XIX (2003). Her most recent research has been conducted on topics of Social Gerontology and Contemporary Cultural History. [Scientific outputs]