Maria Brás Ferreira

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

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

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.

Flávio Rodrigo Penteado

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 Cruz

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.

Nicolás Asensio Jiménez

 

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 fellowship. Together with Teresa Araujo, he developed the project The Golden Age of the Romancero: Echoes of Traditional Ballads in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature. His research interests focus on Spanish literature of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age, particularly in the romancero, hagiography, text editing, and digital humanities. [Scientific outputs]

Catarina Alhinha

Catarina Alhinha holds a bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Studies from the University of Lisbon. In 2022, she won the Excellence Award for the best graduate. Between 2022 and 2023, she integrated the research team for the European project VAST: Values Across Space and Time, dedicated to the area of fairy tales and digital humanities. She is currently a master’s student at NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) and a member of the research project Estranhar Pessoa at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition. Her research interests centre on Fernando Pessoa’s studies, literary modernism (English and Portuguese), and contemporary literature. She is also a writer who enjoys combining her words with painting, photography, and theatre, notably through her project Desaniversário.

Mariana Nascimento

Mariana Nascimento is a PhD student in Comparative Studies at NOVA FCSH and the University of Warwick. She is developing a thesis on figurations of remains in the works of Fernando Guerreiro, Manuel Gusmão and Teresa Villaverde. It explores the possibility of a hybrid and dialogic language manifested in objects that are also compound and phantasmatic. She holds a Master’s Degree in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies, with a dissertation entitled The Residue as the Resistance of Matter: the Rematerialisation of the World through Poetry and Photography (FCSH). She has a degree in Arts and Humanities from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.

Isabel Henriques de Jesus

Degree in educational psychology, graduate degree in Romance Literatures, and PHD in Romance Languages and Literatures, specializing in Modern Portuguese Literature. Thesis entitled The image of women in Portuguese literature in the late 1960s. Besides the field of teacher education where she worked for most of my professional life, feminist and gender studies have been her main area of research during the last 20 years. Coordinator of the Portuguese women writers during military dictatorship and estado novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration project, that aims to survey and study women who published between the years 1926 and 1974, as well as analyze their works and the contexts of their production. She coordinates a research team in the field of women’s studies and direct the journal Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, which is a biannual scientific publication.

Fátima Ribeiro de Medeiros

 

PhD student in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Literature Studies, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She has taught Portuguese and Portuguese Literature at various levels of education, from secondary to higher education. She has been carrying out research in different – yet interdependent – areas, focusing mainly on Portuguese literature of the 20th and 21st centuries and feminism in the early 20th century. She has published extensively on these subjects. [Scientific outputs]