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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]

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]

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.

Author of books and articles on artistic education, ethnomusicology and curricular development and of music for cinema, theater and television. He was Professor at the Hig School of Theater and Cinema of Lisbon (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema), and is member of IELT (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition) at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Consultant of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for projects of curricular development, was Assessor of Gulbenkian’s Service ACARTE (1991 till 1999), invited Reseacher of the Museum of Ethnology of Lisbon (Center of Studies of Cultural and Social Anthropology of the IICT and Service of Education) (1982 till 1992), Scientific adviser of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Kolnn (1985 and 1987), member of the Consulting Board of the Portuguese Institute of the Cultural Patrimony (1985 till 1990), of the Installing Commission of the Museum of Portuguese Regional Music (1987 till 1990) and of the Center of Popular Portuguese Literature of the Classic University of Lisbon (1987 till 1991). Founding partner of the Portuguese Association of Musictherapy (1996), of the Center of Studies João dos Santos (1992), of the Portuguese Association of Cultural Organizers (1976) and of the Portuguese Association of Musical Education (1973). [Scientific outputs]

Nuno Amado is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He earned his PhD in 2016 from the Program in Literary Theory (Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon), with a thesis on Fernando Pessoa. He regularly collaborates with the Estranging Pessoa project-team (University of Lisbon and New University of Lisbon). His main interests are Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Literature, Art, Philosophy and Literary Theory. He is the author of Os Anos da Vida de Ricardo Reis (1887-1936), and the editor of Toda uma Literatura: Caeiro – Reis – Campos, an anthology on the work of Pessoa´s three main heteronyms.

Joana Costa holds a degree in Portuguese Studies and a master’s degree in Portuguese Teaching, both from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University NOVA of Lisbon. Currently, she is studying for a master’s degree in Portuguese Studies at the same institution and is preparing a dissertation entitled “Message in the Continuous Dialogue of Drama in People”, about the connections between heteronymy and that Fernando Pessoa book of poems. About this writer, she previously also gave a presentation entitled “Inevitable names: veils and covers of the same thing”, at the 13^th Open Seminar of Estranhar Pessoa Project, and a presentation entitled “Romance atoms that went to have fever in Pessoa”, at the VII International Congress of the Romanceiro.