PhD from the Social History of Culture program at PUC-Rio and master’s degree in European Studies from Masarykova Univerzita, in Brno, Czech Republic. His interests focus on subjects related to the intellectual history of the contemporary world, especially in the 20th century. He has dedicated himself to researching the essay genre and extremist speeches.
Carlotta Defenu is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the research project Modernismo.pt at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition of the NOVA University of Lisbon. She holds a Ph.D. in Textual Criticism from the University of Lisbon; her doctoral thesis examined the genesis and revision process of Fernando Pessoa’s orthonymous poems. She has published various articles and book chapters in the field of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and genetic translation studies, with a special focus on the work of Fernando Pessoa. Recently, she co-organized, with João Dionísio and Carlota Pimenta, the exhibition “Spot the Differences: variation in Portuguese literature from the Middle Ages until the day before yesterday” at the National Library of Portugal.
Sara Lacerda Campino holds both Master and PhD Degrees in Portuguese Studies, with a specialization in Literary Studies, awarded by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon. She was an FCT Doctoral Fellow while researching for her thesis with the title Training the eye: reading portuguese experimental poetry from the second half of the 20th century. Her academic interests are focused on experimental poetry, visuality, materiality and word-image relations. She also has a BA in Architecture from Instituto Superior Técnico at University of Lisbon. [Scientific outputs]
Joana Castaño holds a PhD from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Universidade de Oviedo (2021), with the thesis Espanha no Teatro de Manuel de Figueiredo. She was a visiting lecturer of Camões-IP at the University of Oviedo and at the University of São Tomé and Príncipe (2010-2018). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Portuguese Studies (2005) and a Master in Portuguese as a Second and Foreign Language (2010) both from Nova University of Lisbon. Her research interests include second/foreign language didactics, African literature in Portuguese language and 18th century theatre. Currently she is a Portuguese teacher. [Scientific outputs]
PhD in Literature (2022) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil), Master in Classical Studies (2011) from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Lisbon (FL-UL) and Graduated in Musicology (2010) from the NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) and Languages, Literatures and Cultures (2007) from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Lisbon (FL-UL). Between 2013 and 2016, he was proofreader and head of sales and distribution at the Federal University of Grande Dourados Press House (EdUFGD, Brazil). He is, since October 2023, a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT) at NOVA FCSH. He is also a guitarist and composer.
João Albuquerque holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (UCLA) and is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT – NOVA FCSH). He is part of both the LITESCAPE.PT – Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal research group and the Almada Negreiros – Sarah Affonso Archive’s research group (CEDANSA). His research interests are Lusophone and Hispanic Literatures, Art History, Aesthetics, and Contemporary Philosophy. He published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these fields in Brazil, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Albuquerque is the author of the book O Estéril Amor Fecundo de Fernando Pessoa (Editora Labirinto, 2022). In 2020, he selected and translated the Rubén Darío’s anthology of poetry and prose, O Sátiro Surdo (Editora Labirinto). Albuquerque is part of Revista Oresteia’s Editorial Board since 2020.
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.