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PhD in Environmental Sciences from NOVA School of Science and Technology (1990). Researcher in Food and Environmental Sociology (Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, 1976-2009; guest lecturer at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, 1996-2003). Currently a researcher at IELT – NOVA FCSH (Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition). Author and co-author of several publications, such as: Tradição e Inovação Alimentar (Colibri, 2006); the book Natureza, Gastronomia & Lazer (Colibri, 2009) was awarded with the “Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique 2010”; Algarve Mediterrânico. Tradição, Produtos e Cozinhas (Tinta-da-china, 2015), co-written with Vasco Célio and Bertílio Gomes, was awarded with the “Prix de la Littérature Gastronomique 2016”, the 3rd prize of the Best Cookbook of the Year – World Gourmand Awards (2016) and Cookbook of the Year in Portugal (2015); Vidas e Vozes do Mar e do Peixe (Tinta-da-china, 2018), co-written with Nídia Braz e Vasco Célio, was awarded with the prize Cookbook of the Year in Portugal (2019); Alimentação Natureza e Paisagem, (Tinta-da-china, 2022), co-written with Maria Elvira Ferreira, José António Passarinho and Vasco Célio, won the Cookbook of the Year in Portugal (2022); author of Património Alimentar de  Portugal (to be published by the by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2024). [Scientific outputs]

 

Assistant Professor at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she has been teaching in the areas of Literary Studies and Translation. She is a researcher at IELT and collaborates with CEAUL – Universidade de Lisboa. Her main areas of interest focus on French Literature and Literature and other arts (Food Studies, History of Medicine / Narrative Medicine). She is a researcher on the project – Cost Action Proposal OC – 2019 1-23925 – Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels in the Iberian Cultural area (since 2020) and is a collaborator on the project – Humanités Médicales (Centro Théorie et Histoire des Arts et des Littératures de la Modernité – THALIM / Université Paris 3, since 2018). [Scientific outputs]

Nuno Ribeiro is a contracted assistant researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (NOVA FCSH), with a project (reference CEECIND/08872/2023) financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Competition – 6th Edition. He has a PhD in Philosophy – in the area of Aesthetics – from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, with a thesis on Pessoa’s philosophical archive entitled Tradition and Pluralism in the Philosophical Writings of Fernando Pessoa, having been subsidized with a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (April 2008 to April 2012). He developed a post-doctoral research funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), at the Federal University of São Carlos (November 2012 to October 2015), on Fernando Pessoa’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s archives. He also carried out post-doctoral research funded by the Department of Philosophy of the University of São de Paulo, within the scope of the PNPD/CAPES program (December 2016 to July 2017). He also developed post-doctoral research on Fernando Pessoa at the Institute for the Study of Traditional Literature (NOVA University Lisbon/ Faculty of Social and Human Sciences), with funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology (September 2017 to October 2023). He graduated in philosophy at New University of Lisbon (2003-2007), having won a merit scholarship. He is the author of books, articles and book chapters published in Europe, Brazil and the United States, with a special focus on the work of Fernando Pessoa. [Scientific outputs]

 

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 20^th 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]

 

 

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]

José Bértolo is a professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies and an Assistant Researcher at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA FCSH), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main research areas are photography studies, film studies, intermedial studies, and comparative literature. He focuses primarily on the Portuguese and Japanese contexts. He received his PhD in Comparative Studies from the University of Lisbon (2019), within the International Programme in Comparative Studies (FCT-funded PhD programme in partnership with the University of Bologna and KU Leuven).
Between 2023 and 2025, he co-coordinated, with Clara Rowland, the FCT Exploratory Project “Spectralities: Literature and the Arts (Portugal and Brazil)”. He has programmed film series in cultural and academic institutions, curated exhibitions, published articles, and presented papers in Portugal and abroad. Published essay books: Imagens em Fuga: Os Fantasmas de François Truffaut (Documenta, 2016); Sobreimpressões: Leituras de Filmes (Documenta, 2019); Espectros do Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira e João Pedro Rodrigues (Documenta, 2020); Ichi-go Ichi-e: Fotógrafos Portugueses no Japão / Portuguese Photographers in Japan (with Pedro Alfacinha, 2025). Edited volumes: A Escrita do Cinema: Ensaios (with Clara Rowland, 2015, Documenta); Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura (with Fernando Guerreiro, 2019, Húmus); Imitações da Vida: Cinema Clássico Americano (with C. Rowland and F. Guerreiro, 2020, Bookbuilders); Assombrações: A Inscrição do Fantasma (with C. Rowland, 2025, Documenta). Selected edited journal issues: “Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly”, Journal of Communication and Languages, 53, with Margarida Medeiros, 2020; “Materialities of the Photobook”, Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, 8, with David Campany, 2022; “Prosopopoeia Today: Poetics and Politics”, 2i, 4–6, with Amândio Reis, 2022; “Frames of Expression: Photography and Other Art Forms”, Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, 8, with José Neves, 2025. Alongside his academic work, he maintains an artistic practice and published in 2024 his first photobook, Moraesu St. (Documenta): https://www.josebertolo.com