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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.

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.

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.