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 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.
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.
Joana Matos Frias is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, a member of the Board of the Centre for Comparative Studies, a collaborating member of the Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa and of the project Estranhar Pessoa. Author of Cinephilia and Cinephobia in Portuguese Modernism (2014) and The images’ murmur (2018), among other books of essays, she has published articles on works of modern and contemporary Portuguese literature in several magazines and collective volumes.
Rita Anuar is a PhD student in Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa on an FCT scholarship. Her research project aims to explore the notions of knowledge and imagination in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol and Walter Benjamin, paying particular attention to the defence of both authors’ affinities with childhood and the figure of the “child”. She has a degree in Communication Sciences and a master’s degree in Contemporary Art History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In her master’s thesis, Body, Experience and Impossibility in Rui Chafes – an analysis of Sonho e Morte, Comer o Coração and Unsaid, she devoted herself to the problems of art historiography surrounding the work of the Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes. She has collaborated with publications in the fields of literature (Revista Limoeiro Real) and the visual arts (ArteCapital; Umbigo Magazine). She also writes and draws.
Completed his degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL) in 2007, his Master’s in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2009, and his PhD in Art Sciences at FBAUL in 2016. A researcher, professor, and independent curator, he is responsible for multiple scientific production and dissemination activities (conferences, editorial coordination, teacher training, digital content, etc.). He explores the relationships between theory and artistic practice within the context of geometric abstractionism in Portugal, with a particular focus on the work of Almada Negreiros. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of ‘Almada Negreiros Sarah Affonso Center for Studies and Documentation’ (CEDANSA – NOVA FCSH) and, since 2025, holds a permanent researcher position (FCT-Tenure) at IELT – NOVA FCSH.
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).
Graduated in Philosophy (2020) from Universidade Federal Fluminense. During his undergraduate studies, she received a scholarship for two consecutive years for Scientific Initiation by PROCAD/Capes, a programme to promote studies and research in aesthetics and philosophy of art. In 2023, she completed the Master’s program in philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro funded by a CAPES scholarship. PhD student in philosophy at the same institution, also funded by CAPES scholarship. Member of the Art Group, autonomy and politics. Research focused on the relationship between philosophy and literature, criticism, focusing on the literature of João Guimarães Rosa.
Is a Brazilian Postdoctoral Fellowship Researcher at Federal Fluminense University (UFF, CAPES-PIPD), with the research project “Genre performativity: the essay between criticism and creation” and a professor in the Lato Sensu Postgraduate Program in Art and Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro(CCEC/PUC-Rio). She is part of the international cooperation project Campo Aberto: Philosophy and Literature between Brazil and Portugal in the 21st century, funded by CNPq at PUC-Rio. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from PUC-Rio (2024), a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from UFF (2015) and a Master’s degree in Philosophy with an emphasis on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from the same University (2018), with the dissertation “Forms of Thought, Forms of Philosophy: A Reading of The Essay as Form, by Theodor W. Adorno,” a finalist for the Women Philosophers’ Award of Academic Excellence (2020). She is a member of the following CNPq Research Groups: 1) Art, Autonomy and Politics (PUC-Rio); 2) The Eros of Criticism (UFF); and 3) Theoretical-Critical Thought on the Contemporary (UFF). During her PhD studies, she was awarded a CAPES scholarship, undertaking a Sandwich Program at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CAPES-Print, 2020-2021). She is a Collaborating Researcher at IELT – NOVA FCSH and coordinates, with Rita Basílio, the project “SEE – On Essay and Essayism: the essayistic attitude, the arts, literature and philosophy in the 21st century”, based at IELT. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the DOBRA Journal – Literature Arts Design (IELT – NOVA FCSH). Member of ABRE, the IAA, the ANPOF Aesthetics Working Group, and the ABRALIC. She works with Philosophy at the interface with Literature and the Arts. Her interests lies in the areas of Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Philosophy, Literary Theory, Criticism and Poetry.