Full Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon where he is currently Vice-Dean for Planning and Quality Management and Scientific Vice-coordinator of IELT. Vice-Dean for Planning and Quality and President of the Pedagogical Council. Besides being researcher and scientific sub-director of IELT, he is also a collaborating member of the Institute of Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH) and of GRIS-France. His main teaching and research fields focus on French Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Medieval Studies and Studies on the Imaginary. He is a founding member and permanent member of the editorial board of the interdisciplinary Luso-French journal Sigila, and belongs to the the scientific board of several journals linked to literary and inter-art studies. His publications have focused mainly on the dynamic relations between Tradition, Myth and Literature with special attention to medieval narrative. [Scientific Outputs]
Carla Guerreiro
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.
Aurízia Anica
PhD in Anthropology from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Coordinating Professor at the University of Algarve, where she directs the Department of Social Sciences and Education (ESEC) and the Masters degrees in Social Gerontology and in Management and School Administration. She co-edited the ebook Envelhecimento e Educação (2014) and she is the author of the books entitled As Mulheres, a Violência e a Justiça no Algarve de Oitocentos (2005) and A Transformação da Violência no Século XIX (2003). Her most recent research has been conducted on topics of Social Gerontology and Contemporary Cultural History. [Scientific outputs]
Ana Margarida Chora
Ana Margarida Chora has a degree in Portuguese Studies, holding M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Romance Literatures (with the thesis: A Deusa em Camelot / The Goddess in Camelot). Her main research fields are the Matter of Britain, Orientalism (literary and artistic), the Feminine and the Imaginary. She published several academic articles, the work Lancelot, other works about Bocage, and also three poetry books. She’s a high school teacher, teaching Portuguese Literature and serving as head of the Department of Languages, having worked as well at university levels. She is a member of the board of the Center for the Studies of Bocage. She’s also dedicated to painting and performing arts. [Scientific outputs]
Nuno Amado
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
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 13th 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.
Christophe Araújo
Christophe Araújo is an assistant professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre since September 2023. Former member of the EHEHI of the Casa de Velázquez, winner of the Mário Soares Prize 2022 with his thesis Being a historian during an authoritarian regime: Power and Knowledge in Portugal (1926-1974), his work focuses on historiography, the prosopography of academic circles and the links between language and political power.
Sandra Santos
Sandra Maria Cabral dos Santos was born in Melo in 1974. She has a degree in Primary Education and has been teaching since 1998. She completed a postgraduate course and a master’s degree in Multidisciplinary Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Aberta, having presented her dissertation Cartas a Sandra: a Simbiose entre o Privado e o Filosófico (Letters to Sandra: the symbiosis between the private and the philosophical), published by CLEPUL. She also obtained a diploma in Advanced Studies in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Portuguese Literature, from the NOVA FCSH of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the construction and representation of the child character in Vergílio Ferreira’s novels. In addition to her professional and academic activity, she is also the author of children’s literature books, and in 2017 she won the Lusophone Competition of the Trofa Matilde Rosa Araújo Prize, with the short story O Senhor Rimas.
Diogo Marques
Diogo Marques is a researcher in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, CODA, and a member of ILCML, Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa, FLUP. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. in Materialities of Literature (University of Coimbra). His thesis focuses on the analysis of haptic interfaces as expressive elements in computational literature. He was a postdoctoral researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (NOVA FCSH), within the scope of the VAST: values across space & time (2020-21) project and Research Fellow at Fernando Pessoa University, Porto (2018-2020). In 2020, he co-organized a volume of essays titled Investigação-Experimentação-
Gonçalo Santos Dias
Master in Text Editing and Bachelor in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (English and Portuguese Studies) from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Developed the project titled The (Un)finished Text – 35 Sonnets by Fernando Pessoa. Analysis and Edition as part of the Master’s in Text Editing. Areas of interest focus on the work of Fernando Pessoa, particularly the production in English. Member of the research project “Estranhar Pessoa.” Dedicates his research to the analysis of intertextualities and interpretative analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s English poetry, a project he will carry out as part of the PhD programme in Portuguese Studies at NOVA FCSH.









