Ana Luísa R. Moreira has a bachelor’s degree in History from NOVA FCSH (2020-2023) and is currently enrolled as a Master’s student in Modern History in the same institution. Her main areas of scientific interest are: History of the Book, Palaeography, Cultural and Mentalities History in the modern period and Social History.
Thales Estefani (PhD student in Materialities of Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra) is currently a collaborating researcher at IELT. He was a research fellow in the areas of literary studies, tradition and digital humanities, within the scope of the project VAST: Values Across Space & Time (IELT – NOVA FCSH). He has a master’s degree in Arts, Culture and Languages (CAPES scholarship), from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), and a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication with an emphasis on Publishing, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He was the executive editor of the journal MATLIT: Materialities of literature (UC, 2018-2021). Currently, he also collaborates with the “MATLIT LAB: Humanities Laboratory” (FLUC) and the CNPq Research Group “Literature and Design of Artifacts for Children and Young People in the Digital World” (UFSC). His research focuses on visual arts, narratives in different media, traditional stories and material culture. Website: https://thalesestefani.com/
Associate Professor (School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Has a PhD in Portuguese Studies, Oral Literature. Founded the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) from School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). [Scientific outputs]
I got my MA from the University of Lisbon in Comparative Studies, in 2015, with a dissertation on intermediality in the cinema of François Truffaut. In 2019, I finished my PhD in the International FCT PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhD-COMP), a joint programme involving the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, KU Leuven and the University of Bologna, with a thesis on spectrality in cinema with a focus on Portuguese filmmakers Manoel de Oliveira and João Pedro Rodrigues. I was a member of the University of Lisbon Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp) from 2013 to 2021. During this period, I was awarded two FCT Scientific Research Grants in CEComp Research Project “False Movement: Studies in Writing and Film” (2013-2015) and an FCT PhD fellowship (2015-2019). While being a member of CEComp, I participated in different projects in the field of Interart Studies, dealing especially with film, literature, and photography. In 2017, I was part of the team that created the research project “RIAL — Reality and Imagination in Art and Literature”. In 2021, I was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in IELT, thus becoming a full member and actively collaborating in the recently created project “Spectrality: Literature and the Arts”. Since 2022, this project’s team successfully applied for funding in the annual Call of FCT R&D Projects in All Scientific Domains, with the FCT Exploratory Project “GHOST — Spectrality: Literature and the Art (Portugal and Brazil)”. I am the project’s co-PI. I was an Invited Teaching Assistant of Film Analysis, at the ULisbon School of Arts and Humanities (2017-2018). Since 2021, I have been an invited adjunct professor in ESAD-CR (Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, IPL), where I teach courses related to contemporary art and theory. I have also been teaching courses on the NOVA Summer School since 2022. In 2021, I co-created the online peer-reviewed journal Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies. I have been one of the four editors since its creation. I am also a photographer: https://www.
PhD student in Estudos Portugueses at NOVA FCSH, with an FCT scholarship, develops a project around Agustina Bessa-Luís and Manoel de Oliveira, based on the concept of melancholy. Bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Estudos Portugueses with the thesis “Modos de Cindir para Continuar. Uma leitura de A Noite e o Riso e Estação, de Nuno Bragança”. Has published two poetry books: Hidrogénio (Flan de Tal, 2020) and Rasura (Fresca, 2021) and received a literary creation scholarship from DGLAB. She is co-editor of Lote magazine.
Fernando Cabral Martins was Professor of Portuguese Literature at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He has written on modern portuguese literature, namely three books on Cesário Verde, Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa, and on the portuguese painting and film history. He organized annotated anthologies and prepared several literary editions of Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Almada Negreiros, Alexandre O’Neill, Luiza Neto Jorge. He has edited one reference book on Fernando Pessoa, portuguese modernism and avant-garde, Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. [Scientific Outputs]
Pedro Liberato has a PhD in Tourism Management and Planning and a Master’s in Management and Planning of Health and Inland Tourism from the University of Vigo. He is a lecturer and coordinator of the Department of Tourism and Leisure at the School of Hospitality and Tourism of the Porto Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches several courses in Tourism at undergraduate and master levels. He is coordinator of the Master in Tourism Management (ESHT – P.PORTO). His main research interests are Tourism Marketing, Tourism Destination Management and Regional Development, Tourism Management, Tourism Planning, Literary Tourism, Gastronomic Tourism, Creative Tourism, and etourism. He has supervised and co-supervised several MSc dissertations and PhD theses. He is involved in applied research and consultancy projects in Tourism and Leisure and is a member of organizing and scientific committees of international conferences. He authored or co-authored more than 75 book chapters and articles published in international journals and international conference proceedings, indexed Scopus and/or Web of Science.
Post-Doctoral fellow within the scope of the research project Estranhar Pessoa of the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. His work focuses on literary and theatrical modernity, with an emphasis on the works of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Andrade. He has published more than a dozen articles in specialized journals and book chapters, most of them focused on Pessoa. He edited the compilation Me esqueci completamente de mim, sou um departamento de cultura (with Carlos Augusto Calil, IMESP, 2015), the anthology Primero de Mayo y otros cuentos (with Jorge Uribe, Uniandes, 2017), by Mário de Andrade, and the volume Mário de Andrade por ele mesmo, by Paulo Duarte (Todavia, 2022). He is also a member of the research group Estudos Pessoanos. [Scientific Outputs]
João obtained a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Nova University of Lisbon in 2018. He has a master’s degree in General Philosophy at the same university with a dissertation about Laughter in Baudelaire: a problem of translation between subject and life. He is currently a doctoral student in Philosophy, where he seeks to develop his project The Problem of Everydayness in Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet. In 2021, he won the merit and excellence award for best master’s degree.
Nicolas Asensio Jiménez is a researcher at the Institute “Seminario Menéndez Pidal” of the Complutense University of Madrid. During the years 2021-2023, he worked as a research assistant at the IELT thanks to a Marie Skłodowska-Curie