Cristina Mendonça

Cristina Mendonça is a Ph.D. student in Modern Literatures and Cultures at NOVA FCSH. Graduated in Languages, Literatures and Cultures – French and English Studies and Master in Modern Literatures and Cultures, major in Romance Studies at the same institution. In 2021, she published her master’s thesis in Le Manuscrit (collection «Extopies») Identidades artísticas e dimensões da écfrase: Construção da personagem-artista em quatro obras de expressão francesa, as a result from the 1st Prize of “Jeunes Chercheurs en Études Françaises et Francophones au Portugal”, organized by APEF (Portuguese Association of French Studies).

Mariana de Freitas Branco

Mariana de Freitas Branco has a degree in History from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and is currently a master’s student in Women’s Studies at the same institution. Her interests include feminist theory, literature, and history. She is a research fellow of Portuguese women writers during the military dictatorship and the Estado Novo in Portugal, Africa, Asia and countries of emigration project of IELT.

Teresa-Claudia Tavares

Associate Professor of the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém. Head of the Department of Languages and Literatures. Teaching areas: Literature (Literary Theory; Modern & Contemporary Portuguese Literature) and Literary Education (Children’s Literature; Didactics of Language Development in nursery and kindergarten). Publishes in the area of gender and education. PhD candidate in Comparative Literature.

Ana Sirgado

Ana Sirgado is a research fellow at IELT and team member of the project RELIT-Rom “Literary revisions: the creative application of ancient ballads (15th-18th centuries)”. She completed her PhD in Traditional and Oral Literature at NOVA University of Lisbon in 2017. She was also a Guest Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH where she teached Portuguese Renaissance Literature for undergraduate programmes (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-24). Her research interests include Portuguese Literature of the 16th century and traditional literature, focusing mostly on the pan-Hispanic ballad and on its relationship with canonical works of literature. She is the co-author of Romances Tradicionais do Distrito de Bragança (IELT, 2019), along with J. J. Dias Marques, and author, amongst other publications, of “As jovens aventuras de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar: reavaliação de um testemunho do romanceiro novo” (RCIM, 2022) and of “Romances e provérbios na literatura portuguesa quinhentista: o caso de «erros por amores»” (BLO, 2022). [Scientific outputs]

Ana Sofia David

Ana Sofia David has a degree in Classical Philology (Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas) and postgraduate studies in Education in the same area at the Faculdade de Letras – Universidade de Lisboa. She has a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies (Literaturas e Poéticas Comparadas) at the Universidade de Évora, with a dissertation about children’s literature and video games. Currently, she is a PhD student in Portuguese Studies (Estudos Portugueses) at NOVA FCSH, studying the poetic places of Daniel Faria.

Cristina Carneiro de Menezes

 

Cristina Carneiro de Menezes is a PhD student in Gender Studies with the doctoral thesis project entitled Escrita sócio-memorialística feminista: o impacto e os sentidos da narrativa de Annie Ernaux no Brasil e em Portugal. She holds a master’s degree in Women’s Studies by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 2020, with the dissertation en-tited Escrita feminina e narrativa na construção da subjetividade e da identidade da personagem Lenù na tetralogia napolitana de Elena Ferrante. Also has a career as journalist since 2005.

Marta Carmezim Gonçalves

 

Marta Carmezim Gonçalves is a Portuguese Studies PhD student at School of Social Sciences and Humanities from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. After concluding the Master’s in Heritage, focuses on the scientific fields of Intangible Heritage, Ethnography and Literary Studies, having published several articles in scientific magazines such as Memoriamedia Review (2021) and Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnografia (2021). Currently, focuses on Sacred and Historical portuguese legends about religious buildings and sites.

Carla Avelino

 

Lecturer at ISCAP – Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto- where teaches since 1999 subjects related to the teaching of French and Portuguese languages and cultures, Communication Theory, Technical and Structuring Portuguese Texts, and Portuguese language and culture for Erasmus students. Graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese/French (1998, FLUP), Master in Iberian Cultures (2008, FLUP) and PhD in Romance Literatures and Cultures – Portuguese Literature Branch (2015), by Faculdade de Letras of the University of Porto. The area of interest is centered on female conventual writing, a topic on which she has held several conferences and published articles.

Marta Braga

 

Marta Braga holds a PhD in Languages, Literatures and Cultures at School of Social Sciences from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, with the thesis entitled Subsídios para um conceito de crueldade na literatura: Diálogos plurívocos entre textos modernistas franceses e portugueses (2021). During 2016 and 2020, she was lecturer of Portuguese and French Studies at the University of Santa Barbara, California ( UCSB). In the last few years, she has been publishing articles in index journals at United States of America and in Portugal. [Scientific outputs]

Sandra Ribeiro

Sandra Ribeiro is a lecturer at ISCAP since the year 2000 in the area of Languages and Cultures. She holds a PhD from the University of Aveiro in Digital Storytelling in Higher Education. She is a member of the Centro de Estudos Interculturais (Center for Intercultural Studies, ISCAP), where she researches in Digital Storytelling in its various aspects. She is also a member of Centre for Organisational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto (CEOS.PP). Her research interests, besides Digital Storytelling as a pedagogical practice, includes sub-themes such as identity, self-representation, interpersonal relationships and technologies in higher education. As one of the Directors of the Masters in Specialized Translation and Interpreting (part of the EMT network), she also accompanied the evolution of translation studies within a market-oriented approach.